I like
math.
Enough said.
I lied.
Enough said.
I lied.
But seriously, I do
like math and looking at the theory behind the technical aspects…
Hmmm... Let's see
the first week of CSC 165 was relatively smooth sailing because the semester
has only just begun. The course is very detail-intensive and it is very crucial
to pay attention in the course lectures and prepare yourself for the lectures by
doing the expected weekly readings in the CSC 165 course notes pdf.
So far in class, one
key thing I learned was what a python list
comprehension was, though it was fairly simple to understand any ways.
One of the more confusing problems for myself and other classmates were how the
Venn diagrams worked, but it soon became clear with what the problem was when I
as debating with other classmates in my tutorials. We missed tiny facts
about the properties of the sets being analyzed in
the lecture that were later applied to the tutorial exercise. It's very
relieving to have pre-typed course notes at hand and very important to give
your full attention to all quick little facts mentioned in the lecture.
Another potential
problem in this course will be dealing with our English grammar and logic to
make statements literal and unambiguous or at least as much as possible in
explaining concepts and answers. Understanding the mathematical symbols and terms used before
class may be a pain, but it is what allows us to understand the concept in the explanations that use thousands of those terms at once. After all, the bigger
problem in this course is understanding, not memorizing. It is very easy
to lose yourself in confusion for the next 15 minutes if you do not pay
attention for 10 seconds in the lecture. In addition to this, you are even more
unfortunate if you have questions left unanswered since lectures quickly pick
up from the previous one right away without too much recap. GET YOUR QUESTIONS
ANSWERED RIGHT AWAY.
Hopefully the more practice we get in this course the more familiar and comfortable we will be with giving proofs and solving logic problems more easily because the symbols are strange to get used to using(for now), and the English language and grammar itself are very confusing to use even for a native English speaker like me.
Fortunately most of the rest of the course will only be dealing with symbolic logic, and not so much with English (yay for no ambiguity!). If you have unanswered questions, feel free to ask them during tutorial (or stick around after tutorial if we are low on time).
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