aaron's Blog

  • Aaron Zemach

    A look at the Challenge Window Design

    By Aaron Zemach

      For the the IDE Challenge Window, the goal was to provide a design that would mirror the page you see when viewing a challenge on the Looking Glass community site. You can see in the...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Looking Glass Through Old Fresh Eyes

    By Aaron Zemach

    Coming back to the Looking Glass IDE after a summer away, I felt like this was a good opportunity to reconsider what my experience was when I was first exposed to Looking Glass, especially thinking...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Asking Questions about Worlds

    By Aaron Zemach

    This week, I fixed some small bugs to get the Code Tests up and running again, and then began going through all the badge requirements to look at how the current Code Tests system would be able to...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Digging through the AST Hierarchy

    By Aaron Zemach

    After having a few meetings with Dennis this week regarding the AST, I started to realize that my conception of the entire AST package may have been put together in a very incomplete way....

  • Aaron Zemach

    AST Diagram & Thinking about Scope

    By Aaron Zemach

    AST Diagram My first order of business this week was to finish diagramming what the AST Package hierarchy looked like, specifically the hierarchy of the "Node" class. In the end, the diagram...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Searching for Patterns in Mentors' Tests

    By Aaron Zemach

    My current goal for the Code Tests is to figure out what direction the system needs to move to be able to return relevant code sections consisting of multiple statements. To begin this, I spent the...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Prepping Code Tests for a Revamp

    By Aaron Zemach

    This week began with me looking at the work I had done with the mentors' tests last week. After reviewing what I had written, I was able to determine that, in addition to the "ConstructCrawler"...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Multiple Crawler Types Up & Running

    By Aaron Zemach

    Although I didn't get a lot of time to work in the LG Lab this week, since I'm going home for Fall Break, I am pleased with the milestone I reached. The code test editor no longer has the...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Test on Consecutive Statements

    By Aaron Zemach

    Another exciting milestone reached this week. Back in September, the first issue that got brought up about the mentor tests was that there used to be no way to get information about tests that...

  • Aaron Zemach

    Moving Code Tests Forward, and Looking Back to the Study

    By Aaron Zemach

    Code Tests have made huge strides since the last update. While the primary goal is to beef up technically, when my brain has been gettng too caught up with the techy stuff, I've been taking breaks...