7th week into CSC165

  Assignment 1 mark was out, below the average, and can't believe that next assignment is due only about a week away, next term test is only a week away! This class is going very fast. Got a lot of work to finish this week.

  

  Talk about this week's materials: Still, proof and proofs. I found that they are hard and abstract to understand at first, but once you kind of get used to it, and have a lot of practices, they will come handy and not impossible to be done. This week's practice before tutorial was pretty hard, I spend time doing it, even thought I got the answer, but I don't know if they are right or not, I think I just do have a clear idea of those kind of questions yet. And as always, the quiz is similar to the practise questions but much easier.  CSC165 is more and more like math now, the things I learned in MAT240, MAT157 and this course are all connected together, and they have a lot of repeated part. 

 At the end of the class, we finally started to connect the logics with computer science code. Instead of learning to program. We learned how to think when we program. I never really think logically when I do my programs. We just got started, but I like what we are learning now about programs and I feel benefited from it.

Week 6 Into CSC165

This week is the week that I got my midterm back. My mark was around 80 percent, which is not good enough for me, I knew that I could have done better. When I was doing the test, I was very unsure about my answers so I checked over and over again, but that indeed wasted so much of my time. In the end, I left questions together worth 6 marks blank. But the good news is, except for those questions I left blank, rest of them I got almost perfect. But the class average was pretty good, most people did really good or even got perfect on this exam. I have to work harder!

And we only had a two hour lecture this week, because Monday was thanksgiving. This week we are not just doing proof structures anymore, we started to learn how to do real proofs. And those things are hard to absorb all at once in class. I have to spend time after class to look over the slides so I can fully understand. But the real proofs are the more fun part.

5th week into CSC165

  This week during the first hour of lecture we complete our first mid-term exam. Many people found it was easy but not me. I had to think for a good amount of time before deciding whether my answer is truly right. In logic questions, if one step goes wrong, the entire solution wouldn't be right. I did most of the induction in my mind. I never had a strong memory and the process of solving a question is a long process. I was too scared that there would be one false memory, that implies one of the step is wrong, so entire question wouldn't be right. As a result, I ran out of time, the test was only 50 minutes, I left 3 parts in question one blank. I was upset about it, but regret is not helpful. I need more exercises, only the ones in prepare exercise, in class and the quizzes are far not enough to train me into a fast thinker.  
  The quizzes are easy as usually.

4th Week of CSC165

  This week's material is getting a bit more challenging. I found out that in order to success in this course, you need more logic than math courses. I'm already taking the hardest math, mat240 and mat157. There are a lot of overlapping knowledges between csc165 and these two courses, which made me feel more comfortable with the math courses.

  I start to see why my instructor Mr.Zhang told us in the first lecture: CSC165 is the foundation of all these maths. Tuesday's lecture gave me a strong impression. We used math symbols to prove different questions. Which are really interesting. I always enjoyed solving math problems. Questions we had are not that abstract, but neither not easy to understand, it's hard, but doable. Unlike math courses. They are not only about logics, and how well you can think, it also requires a lot of foundations, but everyone has a different learning background, some students will be much better in math that other students. I think CSC165 is a fair course, no matter how good you were before, you can succeed  
  
  I followed up with this week's materials, but in the mean time I know if I practise on my own I will fall behind. We were given an interesting problem in this week's lecture: FOLD problem. I'm currently trying to come up with a code that can generate how many and the order of up and downs when you fold a strip of paper multiple times. Today is Sunday and I've been trying it for few hours, I know the pattern in this problem, but maybe I don't  have enough knowledge about programming. I will keep trying, and hopefully get it in next few days.

  To end this week's slog, good luck to me on Tuesday's term test! See you next week!