Common Challenges In Programming Assignments

When a student gets their programming assignment copy in hand, the journey to face a series of issues gets started. To resolve the issues quickly, the student makes the right choice which becomes one of the fatal decisions in the future.

Instead of worrying about the challenges, you have to focus on your work. The points that are discussed below will address all kinds of issues that you might face. Also, we will try to put on lights the way you can fix them without having any tension.

So, be prepared to note all of the possible mistakes you can make while working on any programming assignment. Go through the list below!

• Inadequate Grasp of Programming Concepts Challenge

The most common issue one student faces is their lack of programming concept knowledge. While a student works on the theoretical part of programming where he needs to build up the foundation for practical implementation, they completely waste that time.

The student thinks that he has gained enough knowledge on the concept and he is good to go for the practical implementation. However, while implementing they get stuck & all the interest drains.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

The only way is to put an ample amount of time into getting the theory of the programming cleared. If you think that you have understood the concept clearly, solve any small and easy problem from the internet to gain more confidence there.

• Understanding Complex Project Requirements 

Another most important challenge a student faces about the requirements of the project. Even if, you have to work on any programming assignment, you have to first outline what kind of applications and tools are needed to complete that assignment.

In this case, the student picks the wrong elements as their requirement. This thing is also comes from the inadequate knowledge of the project or assignment that he has to solve.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

Do check out the internet with the concept of the assignment or project. Get the required information on what kind of tools you should use to get an extra edge. If you are still in confusion, do talk with the faculty to confirm all the requirements of the project. 

• Poor Communications Challenge

One of the major instances for which the student feels more challenges is fear of communication. Most of the time, it can be seen that there is a lot of communication gap between a student and its faculty over a certain subject.

The student feels shy to ask questions or doubts to the teacher and even to their fellow friends as well. So, even a small issue appears as a big one as there is no communication present.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

Do spend time with your friends to become more close to them. In this way, you will not find yourself in an awkward situation to ask for any kind of help. You have to always remember that you are in the university to get help from your teachers as well. So, speak frankly to your faculty about your doubts.

• Constant Code Borrowing 

When you become closer to your friends, it becomes another challenge. Everyone wants to reduce their workload and enjoy their social life. A student also finds a proper meaning in life. So, they stop hard working and start copying answers from other students which is known as Plagiarism.

It might help them to clear the assignment, but the required knowledge will not be gained by that certain student. At the end of the course, he will find himself in the middle of nowhere. Such a situation can be compared with a nightmare as well.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

Nobody is saying asking for help is an offense. As a student, you can simply ask for help from another fellow student. But, that doesn’t mean copying the entire code and pasting it. Rather, you can understand the code and try to make some modifications there. It will also help to increase your knowledge.

• Working On A Dirty Code 

A student most of the times think that a workable code is the most needed one. So, if a code is working, then as a developer you should not think about it. However, the concept is solely incorrect. A clean workable code is more acceptable than a dirty workable code.

If your code is workable, but it is very difficult to read out by other fellow students or even by the faculty, then you have not done a great job. Whatever, you have written in the code should be read out even by a novice. Such a kind of practice you have to develop.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

One of the most efficient ways to resolve the issue is to follow the indentation method. The Indentation is the process that makes a code beautiful to look at. And any individual can understand the writing of the code. Also, you can put single or multiple comments to make it more attractive and understandable.

• Debugging Difficult Errors

It is the field from which a student or developer wants to escape for the rest of their life. When a code gets stuck before giving out the output, it is termed as having bugs. And a developer needs to address that bug to get the code workable.

And most of the time, finding out the bug is the most essential step to fix it. In a thousand-line code, it is very difficult to find the proper line for which the bug is arising. However, if you know coding, you will easily trace the line for the issue.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

The one & only way to resolve this issue is not to run away from the problem. It is a constant truth of any developer’s life to fix the bugs in their code. Face the problem, search for the solution on the internet, or ask any expert to get the issues resolved. 

• Optimizing Code For Performance 

Writing down a piece of code which is a working one, is not the end goal of an efficient and good developer. Even if you have written the code by maintaining the indentation, it might not get accepted in your university or working organization.

As you have not optimized the code enough to get its best performance. The performance of any code is judged by the amount of time it takes to compile a simple operation. From that perspective, the theory of Algorithms emerged. You have to follow the Algorithm concept while developing a code.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

You have to get enough knowledge in the Algorithm part of Computer Science. Then, you have to outline the code in such a manner that it will not take much time to complete a simple operation. Always try to make the Time Complexity O(N) which is acceptable.

• Challenge To Understand The User

One of the major challenges is to think from the user’s perspective. A developed software product appears as a completely different thing in front of the user. A user can see the software product from the way a developer can see it.

In most cases, the programmer neglects the users’ perspective and develops products that appear super complex to handle by any user. In such cases, the user will not like the product and eventually, they will get tilted for any other software product.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

There is a simple way to become a user of the product. Think, about what you should want in the product as a user, and what can make a user more comfortable to use the product. After thinking like that, start developing the programming project.

• Sticking To The Code Challenge

It is not a rare thing that every question can’t be solved at once. For that, a programmer needs to put in a lot of effort and thinking. Most of the time, it can be seen that if a programmer faces difficulties in one problem, they simply skip it.

They have not yet thought about the approach for the second time. If they put proper time into a single problem, it is not too difficult to get a simple way out. So, sitting for any code for a long time is itself a challenge for any new programmer.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

The simple way to resolve the issue is to stick to the question minimum for 30 minutes. If you are still unable to solve the question, then mark it in your brain. In your free time, start thinking about the approach as great things can be achieved with more effort.

• Challenge In Planning The Code Outline

The development of any code is no less than constructing a building. We have to make the blueprint of the process beforehand to compile the written code easily. And a beginner programmer forgot to mark this essential step.

Even if, a programmer tries to plan the code outline, they feel the challenge to do it. To outline, the programmer should think logically. At which place, he has to develop an If-Else Statement, where to use the Use Case, etc? So, it is not a simple job.

Way To Resolve The Issue:

The main thing required to resolve the issue is to have to complete knowledge of the programming language. If he doesn’t know about the loop concept, how can he develop the for loop? So, first clear all the concepts, then try to think logically about the requirements in the code.

In this way, by practicing more and more problems and thinking logically, you will eventually bypass the chances to get the common challenges of programming assignments.