Learning Processing reflection

I think chapter 10 of the reading really aligned with our midterm projects. For me, since I really wanted to work with classes, classes naturally had me break down my project in the way that chapter 10 advised. And so for each of my elements/functions, I would make a separate sketch and write that one element/function before copy and pasting it into the final sketch. I think this is a good way to organize everything, because it’s easy to write messy code and to get lost in it (especially when I have to refer to it again hours/days later). The only problem that would then arise would be getting everything to connect and work as one sketch. For example, when I worked on each class individually in another, I automatically set the background to another color and so when I compiled all of them into one sketch, my background wouldn’t change colors like I wanted it to because all the classes’ set backgrounds would inhibit it to. From chapter 11, I think I should definitely take more breaks, since it code can be really frustrating. Additionally, I think I should reach out for more help (whether it be another coder or office hours), since it’ll help me learn code and fix it if I talk about what I’m doing. Also it might be worthwhile to utilize the println() function more. I’ve never used it, but for more complicated sketches, it might be helpful to learn it and use it.