Friday 21 November 2014

CSC104H1- Term Test 2 and Project Due

Finally, term test 2 is finished, and it's much harder than the past term test " I think", maybe I am still not used to the format of CS term test , or I am having another physiology term test on the same day and actually study the term test in the last minute... :P

And I do start to work on my first project "Sneeze", in which i don't find it as hard as I thought since the instruction is clearly state on each function, and what I should do is just put it together properly so that when I click one, things will go smoothly. And I do think the project does take qutie a bit  knowledge from Mapping as well as defining function conditionally. Therefore I did spend quite some times opening previous lecture material to finish it.

And overall these few weeks material tends to be a bit light, or in other words, I AM MASTERING THE MATERIAL. Well, I do find this course much more interesting than I thought, especially when its not purely memorization like my life science courses, but using the reasoning as well as logical thinking.

The last but not least, have a good weekend~

Friday 7 November 2014

CSC104H1 - Half way through, and project comes

There, project comes , "Sneeze" , and since I am more like a last minute person, I will just leave this part in my next blog since I didn't even start.

Lets reflect the material these few weeks, which is about Color, and some binary notation. To be honest, I don't understand binary notation and do find the course challenging as the time takes longer when I doing my Friday quiz. And for the "color" topic, it is more approachable to me since it can be "visualize in my brain" than a pure number from Binary notation.

Speaking of Friday quiz, I do find that the marks is a bit hard to follow up. Although the quiz will be return "once awhile", I think if we can keep track on our marks ONLINE like U of T Portal it will be much easier for me to stay on top of my material (Maybe there are updated mark online, and I just can't find it, well, if thats the case, my apology)

And recently I do start to play around with Dr.Racket, with some  "orders", its just like a communication with my dog. "ERROR ERROR ERROR and ERROR", is what my result whenever I click run. And being this "straight" is what Computer Science really is, though nowaday we keep in touch with computer daily and don't see it as "straight". Its just simply Google, Apple or Facebook (I can't think of any others) makes the Computer Science too human friendly, much more easy to use.

But then Dr Racket is more like "core" of CS, and CSC104 is a touch of this "core" of Computer Science, because I do see how hard can it be if Prof Baumgartner throw some more binary notations in this courses :(

Anyway, overall this course is manageable and I do always look at the bright side!