Stuff, etc.

The difficult part of the year seems to be winding down in comp sci with the completion of the unit on recursion. It seems to me that all the complicated logic and stuff is over, and the real applications should be soon in coming. It was much to my surprise, then, when we started Gridworld. Sorry to be brusque, but what is this crap? Is it really necessary to dedicate a portion of the AP to a case study of basic actor behavior? Granted, I skimmed through the manual for Gridworld and it seems lengthy (a possible indication of more complicated things to come), but at this point, it seems like Gridworld is something that belongs in the second six weeks. After such a buildup of academic furor, it is annoying to have to sit down and do this thoughtless busywork. I would rather, perhaps, make my own interface and actors and learn how to add visuals of that nature or maybe move on to different hardware and real world applications, like coding for Android or learning about Windows. Hopefully we can finish this annoying AP stuff soon and get on to the real fun.