courSe LOG Entry 2

This week's CSC165 class, we learned things about conjunction, disjunction and negation. I feel the stuff in this week is more difficult than last two weeks. Conjunction means and in English and disjunction means or in English. Their symbols are used to describe the relationship between sets. Negation is relatively harder to understand when applying it to problems.

What I enjoy this week is my seat during the lecture is good. On monday's lecture, I sat at the fifth row in the room. In addition, I sat at a good spot downstair in University College's lecture room. In the past two weeks, I did not get really good spot and I even had nowhere to sit in the second lecture of this semester. A good seat helps concentrate during lecture since there is one less disturb.

This week's material challenges me. I was unable to catch up when the professor taught about negation. I did not quite understand even after doing some review. I feel that I miss something so that I cannot fully understand the material. Fortunately, I know a person who lives in the same building as me also takes this course. I asked her about the course material today and it really helped me a lot. I also invited her to be my partner for the first assignment in this course. I believe I need a lot of extra help in the future.

Finding a partner is my biggest achievement of this week. It is really helpful that someone understands the stuff that I do not understand. Although I enrolled into the First Year Learning Community, it does not provide much opportunity for us to discuss the course material. Since she lives really close to my room, it is a really helpful achievement.

This week's tutorial did not go really well. The teacher assistant explained the questions clearly. However, I was unable to apply what he had taught during the following quiz. I made my answer really complicated, and I realized the question should be answered by using negation at the moment I walked out of the class room. I probably need to do a detailed review to understand the course better.

courSe LOG Entry 1

I have been studying CSC165 for two weeks. In this weeks' class, I have learned a lot of new stuff regarding sets. I learned how to express the relationship between different sets by using Python functions. I learned about implication, converse and contrapositive relationship between different sets. I believe they will all make my expressions more accurate. I feel that all the material being taught in the class needs some time to acquire. It is really necessary to spend time on reviewing this course after class. It takes me quite a while to understand how to use Python functions to express the relationship between two sets. It combines Python's programming language with math together. I worked on it for a long time to understand the code and the math. Overall, two weeks' classes bring me a lot of new knowledge. I think CSC165 inspires a lot of thinking.

The lecture is informative, helpful and evokes thinking. However, what challenged me this two weeks is that I am not able to understand what the professor has annotated on the slides clearly sometimes. I have to spend some time distinguishing the words so that I cannot use my brain to think about course material when taking notes. I feel that I don't understand anything by the end of some lectures because I did not think about it carefully due to the pace of class is fast and I have to take notes to catch up. However, when I do some review after class, I find I can understand. I think what challenged me this two weeks is that the pace of class is too fast for me so that I don't have time to think about and absorb the new knowledge during class. 

I am not confident about the course material after class, but when I finish the review after class, I become more confident. I can understand the concept of course material. I think I need to do some example questions to make sure I understand it completely.

The course material this week does relate to CSC108. During CSC108 this week's lecture, we were taught about how to define a function in Python. CSC165 covered function earlier than CSC108. I spend a lot of time thinking about the function in CSC165 since CSC108 has not covered that yet at that time. When CSC108 started teaching function, I found it is easy to understand since I spend a lot of time tinkling about it to understand the course material in CSC165.

I think the achievement this week that is worth to be told is that I can understand the course material. Understanding what is being told during lecture is essential. I am glad that I can understand the materials by doing review especially I feel I know nothing after the lecture.

We had our first tutorial section for CSC165 this week. Teacher assistant helped us understand two easy questions and gave us a quiz that is similar to these two questions. I think I can get full mark in the quiz since it is almost the same as the example question teacher assistant has covered before.

CSC165 is a little bit challenging and it requires a lot of thinking. It needs time to understand. I will try to keep the same studying attitude towards this course in the future.