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.