3rd Week of Class

    This week's lecture was still about the language of math. I nailed it all the way through the first 2/3 of the lecture then it's getting confusing. I think I understand it better than others because I took Data Management in high school and we learned the similar things, but just in a lower level. The materials are definitely not easy, but I believe if I do enough exercise and understand the concept, I will be able to handle it.

   Tutorial on Thursday was not as helpful. I had a lot of questions about the prepare exercise. To me the exercise questions were ambiguous, I had answers for all of them but just not sure if they are right. We took the questions up really quickly, most of the time it was just someone wrote the answer on the board and we move on to the next question immediately. I was trying to understand the other people's answers on the board but we started the quiz right after that. The quiz was much easier than prepare exercise. I'm starting to work on the assignment now, hope I'll have a better understanding next week!

First 2 weeks in CSC165

  The first lecture I had for CSC165 was awesome. I did't like my lecture section because it's 3 hours straight in the night. I was worried about that it would be too much theory for me to handle. But my instructor Larry Zhang made the 3 hours enjoyable. He told us that we are in the best section because we can get the entire week's lecture done in one day, it immediately made me feel much better. I also liked my instructor's teaching style. He was using powerpoint to present the course materials and sometimes he makes little jokes, the class was pretty active. 

  Except for introduction, we talked about some mathematical and logical problems, I understood everything, and felt involved. The first week went well.

  Second week of class for CSC165 was slightly harder. The course material was Quantifiers, Sentences and Statements, Predicates, Implication and Equivalence. It's hard to tell the differences between Predicates and Sets, I can understand them individually, but when they are been put together, I get confused. Even when I look at the explanations on the powerpoint, it's still not that clear. In order to solve that problem, I'm asking this question on Piazza, if it's still not solved, I have to go to office hours or ask during next lecture. Except for that, everything was fine. Mr.Zhang is more serious this week than last lecture. 

  The first tutorial I had was good. It was good because I'm confident about the quiz. There was one paragraph of reading before we answer the questions and draw the diagrams. When I was still on the second sentence of the reading part, someone already finished the quiz and handed in, I'm surprised how smart people are in my class, and feel a bit stressed at the same time. I need to work hard.