CSC104H1 - My first entirely written term test.

Well, since most of our life sciences term tests are using scan tron, therefore writing CSC term test is kind of "challenging" due to my used of fingers with "precise" movement. And I do find myself much of comfortable in doing CSC term test than any other courses. Not only because its easier, but I am actually using my hand movement with the reasoning in my head cooperate together, in which I am more confident with my answer. In contrast, filling out scan tron it just a pure brain reasoning, maybe I am a more "gesture learning" person.

In reflecting these couples week of CSC journey, which are the animation as well as the used of Apply and Mapping on list. I do find it a bit harder to get along with animation, the "big bang" thing due to the unclear explanation from Prof (to be honest, maybe I am just too dump). And when it comes to apply and mapping the list, I do find this  topic is comfortable to approach and find it interesting.

The last but not least, the people in this class is dramatically disappearing, and I do wonder whats the reasoning in behind.
1) Too early (its 9:00 a.m., the U of T student biological clock is around 12:00 p.m) << I think
2) Too easy ( We can just simply download the material online and learn it our own, its more like a CSC104H1-Online style)
3) Herd mentality (Simply if too many people are leaving with good marks, why do I stay?)

And just a last piece of advice, I do believe cutting the lecture off and switch online version, and keep the tutorial quiz the same, it will be much more efficient!

CSC104 - My first touch of Computer Science

So far from this course after 3 quizes, I don't see myself as fear to Computer Science as I thought. Since I am a second year life science student, in the first place I only aim for easy mark, but then I realize I want to challenge myself more later on.

However I do want to take a note that, the phrase of these 3 weeks material is a little bit too slow to me because it's just very basic calculation and flipping the pictures, and I do expect more from this course. Well, maybe its just a first few weeks to let us get used to the language of Computer Science, it will certainly become harder as the course go on.

Speaking of getting used to the language of Computer Science, I do love how Prof Baumgartner approach us by putting a jam on a bread. In which kind of inspire me that human-brain has such a great capacity that can carry on and compare different orders and "make the decision" in such a short period of time.  Therefore I look forward to enjoy the journey of CSC in the future!