Nothing special today. We wrapped up the presentation on variables, Java arithmetic and constants and spent the balance of the class working on your GradeAverage and TempConverter applications. Most people seem to have found their way through it.

Let me stress how important it is to keep up to speed on the application side of things. Most of what we are and are going to be learning is cumulative. 'C' builds on 'B' which was built on 'A', etc. If you get too far behind you will have trouble absorbing the new material as it will assume you (mostly) grasp what has been done so far.

Tomorrow, I'll finish off checking your TempConverter and GradeAverage applications. If you haven't finished them you need to start coming to the lab early before class starts (I'm there every day by 8:40 at the latest and, so far, actually by 08:10) and/or requesting that I stay in the lab at lunch for you to catch up. That will be mostly up to you to initiate the extra help process.

What's on the agenda for tomorrows class? Conditionals. These are the programming constructs that allow your program to start making decisions. In other words, some of the interesting stuff.

A last note, I would really, really appreciate any feedback from you guys as to what is working for you (Yay!) or, more importantly, what is not working. You can use the comment section on the blog or just talk to me. Or leave an anonymous note.