Proofs! We
are beginning to get more into solving proofs currently. I enjoy the puzzle
solving dynamics involved with proofs and the tutorial this week was fun. It
took me a while to figure out the “trick” involved in proving the statement but
figuring out the steps along the way was a good learning experience. Although getting into all of the
introductions was a little bit tedious and seemed like common sense. We also
began to get into algorithm analysis, and tracing code. I enjoyed this aspect
and look forward to applying it in the future. Even in CSC108 it will be useful
and I won’t have to rely on code visualizer as much. Which I currently find
myself doing with many of the CSC108 assignments. The efficiency aspect of
developing algorithms will be crucial in the future and this excites me. I feel
like I am finally going to be able to put my coding to work in the near future
and be able to apply what I've been learning to the real programming world.
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Week 6
The test
went as expected, I finished with a low eighty, which I am happy with. Although
the class average was very high for a test. I am worried about future tests. Professor
Zhang explained after our test that they would be harder in the future because
of how ell everyone did. The subject matter in this course so far has been
interesting and not too impossible, but I feel like it could get rather abstract
when we get more in depth into the course. For some reason my brain is
retaining this class a lot better than most others, it may be we are moving at
a slower pace, or the subject matter is more interesting, or it might even be
because it is a night class and I am more alert. Whatever it is, this class is
not my largest worry right now.
Our
tutorial was canceled this week and the lecture was only two hours so we did
not cover much.
Week 5
Midterms!
This week we had our CSC165 midterm. I felt like I did well, with the questions
being very close to the past exams I felt I was well prepared. I didn’t answer the
last question and left it blank. Luckily it was only worth six marks and I will
get one of those back because of the 20% rule for not answering. I should have
studied our assignment more and better prepared for that category of question.
If I had better prepared that aspect I believe I could have got near perfect on
the test instead of the eighty-something I predict. In the future I plan to better
prepare for the tests by studying a broader area of the content instead of just
mainly past tests.
Our
tutorial this week went well. Going over proof structures was very helpful not
just for CSC165 but also MAT137. In calculus we are currently doing a lot of
proofs but we never really went over the structure or the formal layout and I
think understanding that helps a lot with solving the proofs. I look forward to
the more complex proofs in the near future and I am excited to relate theorems
and mathematical sequences to computer science.
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Week 4
This week
we got into more advanced logic, including De Morgan’s Laws. This course has
continued to be all about logic which is kind of boring, but will probably be
essential in time. I thoroughly enjoy the proof portion of this week’s lectures
and love the problem solving dynamic it opens, this is what I have been looking
for in computer science the whole time I have been involved.
This course
has still been similar to MAT137 but I now see how they are branching off in
different directions. I feel confident about the test coming up. However, it
being my first ‘University’ test I am uncertain how difficult it will actually
be. A lot of people are worried about it and even though we are allowed to
bring a paper with whatever we want into it I am not sure. I have heard a lot
of people saying things like, “I am not ready for this test… At all.” But I don’t
really understand what the big deal is, I find that Larry has been going at a
good pace where it isn’t hard to manage the information load if you just go
over the notes once in a while.
This week’s
tutorial was great, it demonstrated the class’s ability to share ideas and open
up. We were able to bounce ideas off of each other in a fashion that formed all
of our ideas into one definitive answer. We discussed how some answers were
better than others even though they were both correct and formed outcomes that
we could all agree on. The quiz was easy once going through the tutorial and I
believe that the majority of the class believed the same.
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