Never Stop Giving Up

I finally downloaded Dr Racket last week and was excited to do some exercises to prepare for last Friday's tutorial. However, preparing for last Friday's tutorial taught me a couple of lessons.

I learned the importance of the algorithm, "require picturing-programs". I COMPLETELY forgot to input that algorithm so that when it came for me to write a program, a lot of functions were not defined. It took me an hour to figure it out with the help of the internet. The importance of the algorithm cannot be stressed enough.

This led me to learn another lesson; patience is a virtue. Programming does not always run successfully after the first try. It requires a lot of observation, carefulness and patience to have a program run the way you intend it to.

After the time and energy consumed into successfully running these programs, I felt well accomplished. So it does pay off in the end.