Done with HW 4!

I am finished with homework 4, though I should probably do the extra credit bit to solidify my knowledge. The main problem is that I took about 13 hours to finish this assignment. I spent too much time looking at and trying to understand pre-fabricated php/javascript code that I didn't need to understand in order to finish the assignment. And as usual I wasn't paying attention to the seeming fact I was using way too much time for the amount I was actually accomplishing. Need to be more systematic and set expectations to something I can accomplish in a reasonable amount of time. Then I need to monitor myself to note WHAT I am accomplishing and how long it has taken me (hopefully an appropriate amount of time, BTW). Yet I do feel that I learned something on this one.

Working on HW 4

I started work on HW 4 today. It seemed necessary to review the lesson on email, so that is what I did, primarily. I also reviewed some information on ReCAPTCHA. Anyhow, figuring out what I needed to review and reviewing the lesson and other info took more than 3 hours, including extra 'issues' that I made for myself. Hopefully, finishing HW 3 will be relatively easy from here out.

Done with HW 3!

I am finally don with HW 3 (troubleshooting the adder.php page). While I am glad to be done, it took me perhaps 4 hours today just to fix and hopefully understand the final problem. I think I learned a bit, however, and now I have perhaps 10 days to finish the final 8 assignments! These circumstances seem to be setting me up for failure but I will still try.