Today was the graphics lab but due to the fact I'd completed the exercise already, it gave me time to go to friends who were stuck on errors I had not encountered yet and work with them to resolve as many as possible. I find this one of the most useful tools for widening my knowledge of any field as it helps me put my understandings and viewpoints under scrutiny so if anything I ever think I know is wrong, it will be quickly corrected. This especially works with coding as applying the principles I've learned and developed to other people's frameworks shows any holes in knowledge clearly. In the Networks lab, we learned about sockets and implemented an echo server to represent how data flows over the internet. Over this echo server, we had to build a number guessing game and a hangman example. I got both the number game working but I am yet to get the hangman working. Along with this I spent time further reading python documentation due to the fact it didn't come as easily to me as I have been coding with mainly c# over the holidays so python syntax feels at its core lazy when implementing. I want to get past this so I spent the night creating more basic programs that implement very important features such as lambda so I do not fall behind as the weeks' pass. Finally, I went to a talk by a university of derby alumnus who now works at IBM called Claire Barret. She talked about beating the Application process and how to get a placement, I found this incredibly useful and even got to talk to her at the end and managed to get her on linked in. Once my CV is complete I plan on running it by her and others to polish the final product.
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