Slog #8, Title: Assignment

The third assignment is due in 3 days and so far I managed to look at the first question. Pretty serious stuff. I don't know why, but at this point in the course, if I see a statement in symbols it reminds me of a movie. For example, a proof with Big-O reminds me of the movie Holes or any proof with a limit reminds me of Mission Impossible. The latter makes perfect sense. My childhood habits are kicking in now since I'm using pictures to represent phrases and symbols. Maybe this means I'm really stressed or maybe I'm getting dumber. Anyways, I need to brush up on all the Big-Greek Letter proofs because right now I don't have a clue of what I'm doing even though I managed to get the first one. This is only because it was one we did in the tutorial. As I kept looking through the questions, I remember we did a questions similar to number 2 as well in the tutorial, but I totally forgot how to do it. I think I'm going to find that tutorial question again and ask Maria for clarification. Right now, I know I'm not trying hard enough to keep up with all the work. Hopefully, I don't keep this up and get back on track soon.

Slog #7, I think.., Title: Response

As Ryan said on his most recent blog, the second mid-term was surprisingly easy, but hopefully Professor Heap doesn't read this and think that the final exam should be much harder since we did well on the last mid-term :p. The last question was so similar to the previous exam I had the last one on my cheat sheet. Surprisingly, I did not use the cheat sheet for any of the questions. I was about to use it for the last question, but I had so much time left, I kinda challenged myself to do it. After all was done, I took a peak at the cheat sheet and I had the last question down perfectly. Since I barely used the cheat sheet in the previous mid-terms, I don't actually think I'll need it all that much for the final. I mean once I understand how to solve one of the problems, I end up automatically coming up with solutions in my head for the others. Also as Ryan said, the mid-term was a huge confidence booster since the cheat sheet barely did anything and now I actually enjoy trying to come up with ways to prove a statement. If all goes well, I think I can manage to pull off a decent mark in this course :)

Ryan's Blog: http://ryanslog165.blogspot.ca/

Slog #6 Topic: Assignment and Mid-Term

The midterm is next week, and doing the assignment really helped me learn how write proofs much better. I feel much more confident in my proofs and hopefully Professor Heap will post answers to the assignment earlier than the test so I can learn from the mistakes I made. The new stuff we're learning now is really not getting through to me. In the tutorial, the steps were counted in each line and it was really hard to understand what was happening because in the lecture the steps for executing a line of code didn't seem nearly as close to the steps in the tutorial. Anyways I'm going to keep reading the course notes and I will ask Maria for clarification next tutorial. I found out that even if I don't understand a concept at first, I just keep moving forwards and somehow I end up understanding it after when I go back to it.