Blog Post 3

Entry #3

Prompt: How have your classroom experiences prepared you for the internship? What do you wish you had learned prior to the internship?

Date(s): 07/06 - 07/09

Activities: Learning and coding in Python

Technical Information: Anaconda distribution of Python

Reflection:

AOIT has enabled me to take a lot of programming classes over the years, which helped immensely when I had to quickly pick up a new programming language. My familiarity with programming and the general concepts of functions, loops, and conditional statements, enabled me to simply focus on learning the syntax rather than learning how to code for the first time. However, python is quite different from C# or Java, which are object oriented languages. Java is free format, which means that whitespace doesn’t affect the code. This is a huge contrast to python, where whitespace and indentation matters greatly. I came to know that the AOIT cohorts after us are getting some exposure in python early in their AOIT courses, which is something I would have liked to learn as well and would have been helpful in my internship. However with the help of my supervisor I quickly caught on and it wasn’t too much of a hinderance.