Revisiting My Past Slogs

I decided to revisit my very first post: 'Why Geeks Should Write'. I believed that writing and keeping a log of what we learned in class is important for computer scientists, however, I was a bit more skeptical about the importance of blogs then I am now.

In my post, I talked about the importance of being able to communicate your ideas, leaving comments when writing code and keeping notes to track your thoughts. I still believe those things are important, although, I would have to add something. When I wrote this post I did not know a TA strike would take place and would have never expected it to affect my courses as much as it did and so would not have been able to predict the following. Slogs really helped me keep track of the material we learned in class when labs had to be cancelled. Reading others' opinions on class components, the work they were doing, and having to write about ADTs and recursion myself, forced me to revisit these topics when weekly quizzes, what usually kept me on track, were called off.

All in all, I found writing slogs much more difficult then I expected. The ability to communicate and keep track of my thoughts is one I am lacking. It is indeed an important skill to possess and hopefully I can convince myself to continue writing logs of my work. I realize that this will help me in the future.