By the time I finish my 3rd CS course here, I’ll have completed at least 32 programming assignments. That’s 8 graded assignments per course, plus the course I’m in now requires a programming exercise to be submitted as a part of our learning journal assignment. 32 isn’t including the extra exercises and labs that are available to do, but are not graded. If I had the time to do every single challenge I’d have made over 100 programs by now.

There are also what’s called Discussion Forum questions where we write an essay of sorts explaining some programming concept, we often share diagrams, and source code to support our understanding. But actual coding is a big part of the curriculum. Right now I’m learning how to create a simple syntax parser using recursive descent parsing and expression trees in Java.

Hope that gives you an idea of what it’s like here 🙂

Cheers!

Thanks a lot