2008年11月29日星期六

near the end of the semester

There are something new for the proof strategy, which is structural proof.
We have proved several statements about binary string with certain properties.
At first I was not comfortable with the idea of binary string and now I find
it easier and it has create a new world for proofs.
Assignment 3 is done and there is only one test left until the final.
This semester is going really fast. However I had a good time with lectures
and fair marking. I would love to take this course even if it's not the program
requirement. I hope we can have some practice test or past tests for the final
to decrease the stress of having 3finals consecutively.

Hope all of us will do fine.

2008年11月21日星期五

we have to learn self study....

I feel strongly that even though we are learning the same knowledge about regular expression in both courses csc207 and csc236, I understand better on csc236 than on csc207.
Hence, I believe instructors and the strategy for teaching matter a lot when it comes to learning new knowledge. As I go from elementary school, middle school, high school and now university, I feel that we have more abilities to learn, but the instructor has less strategies to teach.

Though I don't prefer this situation, I have to admit that this process is necessary to make people learn to self study. No one will teach you forever. It's yourself who learns the knowledge.
CSC236 is one of the course that I can mostly understand during the lecture.
So I recommend this course to all the CS students.....(though it's a program requirment)

2008年11月9日星期日

Term Test2 is done

We just had term test 2 and it's not hard.
I found that the past test helps for the question
of termination of loops.
I just need to study the lecture notes and
assignments to prepare for the test.

The test content and assignment content is fit
to what we have learned.
I have another course MAT237 which the assignment
and the test is mostly out of range.
Also, the lecture is hard to understand, so is the textbook!

I feel the course CSC236 is a good course since
I can understand on the lecture and prepare well
for the tests. It's very straight forward and clear.

If all courses are like CSC236, the university would be
much funnier.