Introduction to Algorithmic Design I

 

After taking CMSC 140, I decided that I did want to pursue a minor in computer science. This class, CMSC 160, was the first step in beginning my minor. I would highly recommend that anybody completely new to computer science take CMSC 140 before taking this class. Already knowing some of the basics of programming helped me immensely during this class. There were times when I did really well in this class, and there were times when I struggled. Overall, I enjoyed this class. The classwork and projects of this class really helped train my brain to think like a computer scientist, which I believe will really help me in my future computer science classes.

My artifact for this class is one of our labs. In this lab, I had to calculate the average length of strings that were input into the program. Next, I had to write a program that looked through all those strings and would print out any strings that were within one of the average length.