Midterms!

It's midterm time... yay!

This is a good thing I guess. It makes me review everything so far and especially with reading week just before all of them. I have 5 in total the first being graphics, then accounting, then business... etc. They actually get easier as I go on which is always nice.

One point I wanted to bring up is; why don't we have a first semester reading week? It would make everything so much easier especially during the midterms of first semester.  I would have loved a break before our animation midterm. Would've been very helpful.

I do enjoy reviewing everything though. It is a good practice especially when I have already taken notes for the whole semester. Great way to stay on top of everything! So I am ready! Let's do this!

Homework

We are approaching the halfway point of the semester and with that it's time to start handing in some homework questions. While working on them I have encountered some problems mostly in the code heavy questions.

Dan is an amazing TA. He has been very helpful in every aspect and I have learned more from him than any other TA. That being said, with the homework questions we have been instructed not to hand in the same code as he gives us in the tutorials but he does some of the homework questions note for note in class. For example, the upcoming expiring question about the lighting has already been done in class but we are not allowed to hand it in as is. This is strange because there is only one way to do specific types of lighting... So how do we do them differently?

But it has been good for me. I have had to actually learn what we are doing in the class and that is definitely a good thing. I also really enjoy doing shaders which is a new thing to me. They are really cool and I enjoy visually being able to see things changing. Looking forward to the rest of this semester!