I'd honestly forgotten how much I enjoyed Professor Downing's teaching style. He really keeps you on your toes since you never know just when he's going to call on you. This tends to make the class more immerse and get you more involved with readings and such, I honestly wish more professors at UT taught like this, it's a nice change of pace from when professors just get up at a podium and drone on endlessly for an hour or so.
The Collatz project should've been an easier experience for me than it was. Since I'd already completed this assignment in OOP the java program was an easy carry over, unfortunately when I ported it over to Python I made a typo that took me two very frustrating hours to spot. On one hand, while it is generally nicer to know that there isn't anything fundamentally wrong with your logic it is a rather crappy feeling to sit there and stare at a computer for an extended period of time when all that needs to be changed is a single character.
I do enjoy the XP readings we've been assigned so far. Overall I agree with the methodology and it parallels what I did last summer during my internship. I'm looking forward for the change to get back to some pair programming and testing it out.
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