It's already been two weeks back from the Christmas break. For you optimists, only 10 weeks (and counting) of the semester left! And despite my best intentions and seemingly strong willed New Year Resolutions, I'm starting to slack off and fall behind in course work. No worries, I'll catch up next week I keep promising myself; but its been a fortnight now...
So far, CSC165 has proven to be an entertaining course as I enjoy solving problems, and hopefully that's the general direction it takes. I was quite intrigued and hooked on by the time Professor Heap had gotten through the first week of lectures. His lectures were quite captivating material wise, and how could anyone not enjoy the innumerable 'punny' jokes? One important lesson that I took from the first couple of lectures is to back up any claim. Professor Heap certainly did that when he proved through a simple exercise, his claim, that we were very poor at communicating even the simplest of ideas.
Quantifiers weren't too difficult to understand though the latter topics got a bit confusing. Implication on the other hand was certainly a baffling experience. I was quite puzzled by it, and though parts of it made sense, the introduction of the logical operators - 'and' and 'or' - threw me further out of whack. Best get down to business and hit the books right away. Or maybe next week...
So far, CSC165 has proven to be an entertaining course as I enjoy solving problems, and hopefully that's the general direction it takes. I was quite intrigued and hooked on by the time Professor Heap had gotten through the first week of lectures. His lectures were quite captivating material wise, and how could anyone not enjoy the innumerable 'punny' jokes? One important lesson that I took from the first couple of lectures is to back up any claim. Professor Heap certainly did that when he proved through a simple exercise, his claim, that we were very poor at communicating even the simplest of ideas.
Quantifiers weren't too difficult to understand though the latter topics got a bit confusing. Implication on the other hand was certainly a baffling experience. I was quite puzzled by it, and though parts of it made sense, the introduction of the logical operators - 'and' and 'or' - threw me further out of whack. Best get down to business and hit the books right away. Or maybe next week...
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