Operation "Move the Cheese"

For the first assignment of CSC148, the objective was to implement parts of a step-by-step design of an object-oriented program for a Towers of Anne Hoy game. Initially, I felt like I didn't understand the game, so after some further reading on Wikipedia, I realised it was a lot like the 4 Lions game I used to play on Math Circus, (if anyone remembers that from elementary school).

I was a little bit worried starting out on the assignment because I didn't feel too confident in my abilities and knowledge to write and solve code. I read the assignment handout repeatedly and stared at the files for hours, almost in tears because I didn't even know how to begin. I never felt so clueless and flustered, and I didn't even know what kind of questions to ask my peers without sounding like a complete idiot.

After about 4 hours of frustration, and a good night's rest, I managed to tackle the assignment without too many difficulties.

The lesson I learned from this experience was that even though I was reading the assignment over and over again for hours, and not producing an visible progress, it doesn't mean I'm still NOT making progress. I felt that understanding the assignment before starting any work made the entire process much more easier to tackle, and easier to fix, had I made any mistakes.