How the maze-generation project helped me understand the course material even more clearly?

To be honest I was initially struggling with the maze generation assignment and felt I was spending to much time on it. I was feeling frustrated, that even though I felt my code was right, my player kept moving off the maze. I changed my code many times to make sure this would not happen, but it kept on happening. However on one try, I was finally successful. I forgot to add a condition to one of my functions which was causing the player to move off the maze. Even though the assignment is due two days after the test, having completed it I feel that my knowledge of conditional, struct functions as well as the ability to use, map and apply in different situations has made these respective concepts even clearer to me and hopefully this will help me do well in the test. The functions used in the assignment are complex, in the sense that they require a lot of time to digest, to fully understand what their purpose is.  They are integrated which helps ensure that students play close attention to each of them, so that they can successfully use them in the following functions. It was fun working on the assignment, thinking that the purpose was to create a maze from the material we have learned in class. This shows how powerful computing actually is. I feel this is a good way for students to ensure that they really understand the material taught in lectures in depth. I feel after completing this assignment I will be able to better understand the remainder of the course material.