• What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
  • Today we talked about the different variable data types and related them to “buckets” of varying sizes, which helped to make sense of things as well as shined some perspective on how to make proper use of memory management in the C programming language. Bad programming is something seen more often than realized, but it's good to see how we can possess “good programming” skills.
• What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
  • The only really big difference to C compared to Java that I have seen so far is the use of pointers. We haven't gone into huge detail with them yet, but they definitely look interesting. Another thing we saw that was slightly different than Java was the void data type, which is in java, but as pointed out, C allows us to manipulate raw memory with it somehow, so that will be interesting to look into in the coming days.
• What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?
  • I haven't had much practice with Linux or Unix. And while I have had some, it will be interesting/challenging getting used to C as well as another operating system entirely. Exciting for sure.

This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for “Month Day, Year”, and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries.

As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries:

• What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date?
• Why was this significant?
• What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense?
• What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?