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Lovely weather and cursing recursion

THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED… Finished the API/Fetch practice assignment Async/await I finished the weather app! codecara.github.io I started the section on Recursive Methods ISSUES I HAD… API/Fetch practice I did not really understand how then or catch worked intially. I played around with the code, which helped me to understand much better. Recursion Although I thought I knew what recursion was (the basic theory, at least), I had some trouble when it came to more abstract questions in the practice section. I could see what was going on in the easy ones e.g. factorial), but in some of the other examples,featuring arrays, nested objects etc. I literally had no idea where to begin at first. The approach seems to be to: write pseudocode translate to code test that code using the debugger …and not make assumptions about what the code is doing (i.e. test what you think it’s doing) THINGS THAT WENT WELL… I thought I had a relatively good understanding of promises, async and await by the time I got through the material - time will tell how well I understand them of course. The weather app was a lot easier than I expected it to be and I finished it in a few hours. I really enjoyed this project. THINGS I’VE LEARNT/NEED TO IMPROVE ON… Catch errors only work in very specific circumstances (when there is a network error or an issue with fetch itself), so can be confusing. Recursion I did ask for some help with the tougher recursion questions, but I’ve realised again that asking for help too soon is not always best - I think asking too soon is a consequence of underestimating how long it should take to grasp these concepts. Though I am still trying to finish the tougher questions, I don’t feel quite as lost as I did before. I keep reminding myself of the steps in recursion also - base case, recursive all and return to exit the recursive function somewhere. OTHER… I absolutely loved doing the weather app - I hope this is a good sign! I am a little bit frustrated with recursion at the moment, simply because I am in the ‘trying to develop the skills to solve the problems’ phase, but I hope I will get there with some effort. PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK… Hard to say, as I have decided to take my time with recursion now. I would like to finish all the practice examples and move onto the Recursion project, though I may do additional practice exercises first - I haven’t decided that yet.

Apr 6, 2025 - 18:06

THINGS I’VE WORKED ON/COMPLETED…

Finished the API/Fetch practice assignment
Async/await
I finished the weather app!

codecara.github.io
I started the section on Recursive Methods

ISSUES I HAD…

API/Fetch practice I did not really understand how then or catch worked intially. I played around with the code, which helped me to understand much better.

Recursion

Although I thought I knew what recursion was (the basic theory, at least), I had some trouble when it came to more abstract questions in the practice section. I could see what was going on in the easy ones e.g. factorial), but in some of the other examples,featuring arrays, nested objects etc. I literally had no idea where to begin at first. The approach seems to be to:

write pseudocode
translate to code
test that code using the debugger
…and not make assumptions about what the code is doing (i.e. test what you think it’s doing)

THINGS THAT WENT WELL…

I thought I had a relatively good understanding of promises, async and await by the time I got through the material - time will tell how well I understand them of course.

The weather app was a lot easier than I expected it to be and I finished it in a few hours. I really enjoyed this project.

THINGS I’VE LEARNT/NEED TO IMPROVE ON…

Catch errors only work in very specific circumstances (when there is a network error or an issue with fetch itself), so can be confusing.

Recursion

I did ask for some help with the tougher recursion questions, but I’ve realised again that asking for help too soon is not always best - I think asking too soon is a consequence of underestimating how long it should take to grasp these concepts.

Though I am still trying to finish the tougher questions, I don’t feel quite as lost as I did before. I keep reminding myself of the steps in recursion also - base case, recursive all and return to exit the recursive function somewhere.

OTHER…

I absolutely loved doing the weather app - I hope this is a good sign!

I am a little bit frustrated with recursion at the moment, simply because I am in the ‘trying to develop the skills to solve the problems’ phase, but I hope I will get there with some effort.

PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK…

Hard to say, as I have decided to take my time with recursion now. I would like to finish all the practice examples and move onto the Recursion project, though I may do additional practice exercises first - I haven’t decided that yet.