Week 2 CST 338

 For homework 1 one of the hardest unit tests to pass for me was the sort test, most of my methods were working properly but so many of them rely on the sort method that I wasn't passing many of the tests. I realized later on that I wasn't defining the hashmap so if there was noting in it it would not return properly. Once I had sort working many of the other tests came much easier. Something that I was proud of was building the histogram display method and getting it to properly display using stringbuilder. The first week was a fun and challenging week, I learned a lot about java and was able to brush up on some of my basic programming skills while learning the syntax and some of the benefits OOP has to offer. Many of the assignments came easy once I figured out the proper calls and methods that are associated with string and map. 

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