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Week 11 Slog: Revisiting my 1st Slog

This week has been a very busy week for me since I have to study for my econ test, catch up on csc165 (wherei have NO IDEA what we are doing), and look over at my assignment for this course since we have to present it. It has only been a week and I already forget everything about the assignment. So basically, I apologize in advance if this blog post is very disorganized because I’m sleep deprived and delusional.

Looking back at my first slog, I’m glad how far I’ve come. Being the lazy, annoying, and not so intelligent person I am, it’s quite surprising how I manage to stay in this course without having a mental break down (or maybe I did, who knows), and not dropping out. I’ve mentioned in my first blog post that I have difficulties paying attention in class (or to motivate myself to even go) and handing my assignments in time, and I want to proudly announce that I’ve (kind of) overcome all those difficulties. I also mentioned how I found this course interesting. Though I still find the course interesting, I found that this course is way more challenging than I thought It would be. During these past 11+ weeks, there are many times that I wanted to give up, drop out, and just take a nap but I’m glad I worked hard and stayed in course because I’ve learned many new things that I would have never thought I would have learned if I had just given up. I’ve developed a lot from the first week, I’ve became more mature, attentive, and knowledgeable. I guess I am finally growing up.

I also mentioned how my “logic thinking skills are not very good, I somehow survived csc108″ and tagged #confusedchild in my first slog, well, here I am, also surviving csc148 (but still am a little confused). Finally, I would like to give a huge shout out to my friends for dealing with my whiny self, thanks for listening for my complaints, you are one of the reasons I've come this far. I hope everyone week is going better than mine, get lots of sleep, and good luck with your finals!

Week 10 Slog

This week, we learned more about big-O, and the run time algorithm, which again, not so surprising, I understand NOTHING about. We are also learning about big-O in csc165, so I probably should stop procrastinating (which i blame my friends for since they kinda made me start watching Friday night lights again and that really took a lot of my time), and study more.

I hope these blog posts are not supposed to be so serious because I don’t really know what I’m talking about. This week, My partners and I finally finished the assignment. I found this assignment waaaaay harder than the first one, which makes me cry a little. I’m quite scared to present it next week because I honestly don’t know why our codes work. Everytime we code something and it doesn’t work, we just cry for a couple seconds, and change something in the code, and then the file works, and we sometimes don’t know why. I got to give a big shout out to both my partners for being great and not leaving the my annoying self work along, I honestly don’t know how they deal with me.

We also got our test marks back this week, which I don’t really know how I feel about it. I was emotional about the test for a couple minutes since I didn’t do as good as I hope to, but I guess there’s nothing I can really do, so I stop whining since my friends are getting annoyed of me.

Anyway, I hope everyone’s week went better than mine and have a great day!!

#sorry for complaining

Week 9 Slog

This week, we had our 2nd term test, which I found way more difficult than the first test, but I’m glad I had enough time to finish this one. I realize after the exam about stupid small mistakes I made on the test and I hope I get part marks for the right part I did (haha). At this point, I’m quite scared about my POSt, and I have to look at other options other than computer science. Some people in my class has been discouraging and not so civil lately, but that’s not going to stop me from learning (also I don’t really care what they say anyway.)

However, I will still try my best to stay in this major or my parents will disown me. (I’m just kidding) I don’t know how to end this again so I hope everyone stay warm and hydrated!! (:

Week 8 Slog

This week, we’ve learned more about Tree class. I didn’t really know what Tree class was last week but surprisingly, I am now starting to understand the concept of tree, however, I still don’t really know how it’d be used coding-wise.

We learned more about binary search tree, and search orders (inorder, preorder, etc) and I’m starting to get the grasp of it, which I’m happy about. We also have our Term 2 test in the next week that I am really nervous about since I didn’t do so well on my last test. I just hope everything goes well & good luck to everyone!

#tired

Week 7 Slog

Throughout this week, we were taught a lot more about recursion and the class Tree, but I will focus on recursion in this blog post. I had no computer science knowledge before taking CSC108 so when I was first introduced to recursion last week, I was quite confused since I find recursion to be very tricky. I remembered seeing recursion in the past exams and hoping that those questions wouldn't be in mine (but they will). However, Prof Heaps showed us more recursion examples and applications, and I'm starting to get a grasp on the whole idea of recursions.

Surprisingly, recursion makes some difficult functions look simpler since it breaks a problem into smaller problems (although it is still very complicated to me). Recursion requires a lot more thinking, which I'm not very good at, so the only way to improve my understanding of it is to practice it.

In conclusion, recursion can get very complex, but it is very useful in codings more complex problems. When coding with recursion, your codes looks brief(in a good way), pretty, and also runs well(with shorter run time. Anyway, I'm very bad at ending a blog post so I hope you readers (If someone actually reads this post....) have a very nice day & stay warm!

Week 6 Slog

So.... We got our first test result back this week, and I didn't do as well as I thought I did. I was very emotional for a couple minutes but there's nothing I can really do so I just stopped being dramatic. Anyway, my partner and I finally finished Assignment 1 this week. The assignment took a lot of thinking because every files have to work with each other. It was definitely harder than any of the csc108 assignments, but I actually enjoyed doing the assignment. However, I gotta say that I'm very happy to get another assignment out of my way.

Also, this week we started to learn about recursion, which I understand nothing about. I've seen some of the recursions from the past exams for this course and this requires a lot more thinking, which I'm not very good at. After this blog post, I'm about to go re-read the slides and look at the examples over again. I really have to keep up with this course more than I keep up with the kardashians if I want to stay in this major. :(

Anyway, this course seems to get harder and harder everyday, and midterms are coming up. I really need to stop napping and put my effort in school more because my GPA is about to drop like it's hot (but it's not). Nevertheless, this blog post makes no sense but I hope everyone stay warm, healthy, & don't get sick!

#imsoweird #imsosorry #youhavetoreadthis

Reading Week Slog

Hi, Sorry for the late blog post this week. Well, I mean, it’s not like someone is reading these anyway.

It's reading week this week, and I must tell you, I did not get anything done at all. Actually, I've been getting very healthy hours of sleep but that's quite it. That's exactly why at this moment I'm trying to catch up on everything.

I've been doing the first assignment for this class, and to me, it's not very difficult, but the description for the assignment is quite vague and sometime hard to understand. I've done almost everything except for the file simulation.py. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO ON THAT FILE, but right now I have to focus on my csc165 midterm which I'm very nervous about and then I'll continue on this assignment later.

Okay, so I'm running out of things to say. I mean I can't really have much things to say since I've been sleeping basically 70% of my days. I want to wish everyone to do well on their assignments(not better than me tho) and have a great the rest 3 days of reading week!

Week Five Slog

This week, we continue to learn more about linked list, which I still don't really understand, I probably should figure it out soon.

We also had a test this week, which I was very sad afterward. The test was straight forward and fair but it was wayyyyy to long, in my opinion at least. I did not have time to finish the last question of the test, which is worth 8/28 of the test. I only had time to write one line of code, and the time was over. Safe to say that I had couple emotional minutes afterward, or maybe I was just being dramatic. Later that evening, I was very jealous of the evening class that the fire alarm went off. I hope that this matter gets resolved fairly because being the dramatic person I am, I will be quite upset if only those people's tests get omitted or they get to rewrite since then they will have more time to prepare.

It seems like complaining is the only thing I do, but I promise I do other things too! I've kind of started my assignment and I'm actually quite excited to work on it during reading week. I also started to learn HTML and made a website as my resume, and knowing that I'm a big procastinator, it's probably not gonna be done anytime soon.

Anyway, by now you are probably bored and I am so sorry you have to read my blog post, I'm going to nap now and you should sometime too!!! Stay warm and hydrated :))

Week Four Slog

Things are starting to get hard for me. We are learning more about superclasses, inheritance by subclasses, stacks and lists. Although my lab/tutorial last week went great, but honestly, I’m not quite confident in this week’s materials as the other weeks before. I feel like I’m falling really need to catch up on the work for the upcoming term test. Someone please tutor me.

For the assignment one, I’ve read over but haven’t done anything much. It doesn’t look too bad though, I’m going to try to finish it during reading weeks due to all the other classes’ midterms next week.

Another random thought I had this week was that I don’t really like PyCharm that much. During UofTHacks (which I got rejected but I went anyway), my friend from Waterloo was coding on this software “Atom”, and I thought it looked really pretty so I downloaded it but it just sat there on my computer for a couple weeks. However, this week I decided to start using it and I like it so much better than PyCharm. Atom is so much easier to use and I could also try to learn another programming languages on it. Sorry PyCharm, I guess you’re alright, but I like Atom better.

Sorry for all the rambling, I’m going to stop now and hopefully I will see you again next week. :))

Week One - Three Slog

To be quite honest with you, I was a little scared when I went to my first lecture of csc108. I had little experience, and my logic thinking skills are not very good. However, I somehow survived the course, and now here I am in csc148, and very excited to learn more about coding.

Being in this class make me think about everyday life a little differently. For example, when I went out for a brunch last week, and used the debit card machine, all I could think of was all the codes they probably had in this machine for it to work. Sometimes when I simply visit a website, I sometimes get distracted and forget why I went on that website because I was again thinking about all the code the web developer had to use for this website to function as well as it does. I just find it very fascinating how much coding is involved in our everyday life nowadays.

However, there are some challenges I faced, such as blanking out in lectures, almost handing in assignments late, and more that I’m trying to overcome in this course. My goal is to pay more attentions in class, but I have a very short attention span and always get distracted so I downloaded this app called ‘Self Control’ to block all the distracting websites during lectures. My other goal is to try to finish the lab during that 2 hours tutorial.

Anyway, this course has been interesting so far, and I don’t really know how to end a blog post so okay good bye I hope everyone have a very nice day :))

#confusedchild

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