Four weeks have passed since the beginning
of the winter term, and I have learned a lot from CSC148 in this short amount
of time. Although nothing really challenged me this week, or any material up
until now to be honest, I really do feel like I learned a lot from going to
class, attending labs, and doing exercises. The concepts are so much easier to
understand when actually applying it through labs and exercises, rather than
just doing the readings.
One thing we covered on about in
the past week is handling exceptions; an exception object is created whenever a
runtime error occurs, it interrupt the program and print out on which line the
error is found. It is very useful for debugging a program. Exceptions can also
be used as pseudo if statements when using in conjunction with the try
statement. With the except clause, user can raise the exception as it is
generated, interrupting the program to warn the user of the error; or one can
follow up the except keyword with name of the exception, as long as the error
generated match the one you named, the program would continue running with the
statement within the except clause without interruptions.
This technique was greatly
enhanced in this week’s exercise, in which I had to raise and catch various
different exceptions, including creating my own exceptions with its own
customized message. I am really appreciating these exercises, especially with
auto-testers to check for errors, to further improve our learning experience.
