Weekly Blog #4

I have seen and read about templates and generics in data structures and algorithms, but I think back then I was much more concerned about learning basic programming that I didn't pay any attention to advanced concepts. Now that I hear them again it makes much more sense and I can definitely see many uses for them in real life. 

Some features likes these I never really had to learn, because if I needed to write multiple functions with different parameters then I would just copy and paste functions and change a few things. I never knew the language supported such things. I really hope that we get to about function pointers, because I don't think I have a complete grasp on it, and Prof. Downing does a good job of explaining concepts clearly. 

I thought the test was pretty fair, though I thought some of the first few questions were more detail oriented than I expected. 

Overall, I think the workload in this class has been pretty decent, I'm happy with the workload balance and how much I am getting out of the class.