CST 338 Week 5

 1. I worked with Dakota, Jerrick, and Mohamed 

2.  After last assignment I decided to try planning my code on paper first rather than just begin writing. I can understand how it might work for some people but for me I found my self struggling with understanding what I wrote and why I wrote it. For me it is much easier to begin writing code so I can see how the code interacts on the screen than on paper. 

3. After reflecting on last assignment, many of my teammates took a little bit longer looking at the prompt before wrtiing any code. After gain a firm understanding of the entire prompt they wrote some of the simpler methods and then began implementing the harder ones.

4. I would definitely start writing code before I wrote anything down on paper, and then once I had some code on the screen and something that had some logic to it I would transition to paper to understand how the variables will interact and flow together. 

5. My teammates said that my code was very close to the formatting documented in the style guide but there were small things I could change to make it better. Including the format of my Java docs and the name of my variables. 

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