Slog #2

I prepare my quizzes by doing the exercises on the course website repeatedly as I said in slog #1. For preparing tests, I did most of the past exams that were posted on the course website. This week, I get my term test result back and I was quite surprised by the grade because I thought I did better. Most of the mistakes that I made on the test was missing steps.. However, next time I will be more careful and write every steps. I really enjoyed making images, such as circles, triangles, and stars, by using functions. For example, when making red square, you will need to type the function: (square 10 "solid" "red") and you can add beside or above to make it more interesting and complicated. Furthermore, initially I found check-expect hard and confusing and now I understand it. I understand that check-expect is by doing the exercises on the website. When I have questions, I usually go on Piazza and see if anyone asked the question that I have, and most of the time the questions I have had already been posted and answered. I would also like to go to the office hours to ask question, but the times cannot match. Therefore, I think that Piazza is a great tool to ask questions and it's very convenient because I can ask questions whenever I want.

Slog #1

I choose CSC104 because I am thinking about taking computer science major next year, and also, I want to know if I am interested in computer programming. In this course, I hope to learn some basic computer programming techniques. This is my first time learning programming and I expect programming be like something cool that can make website and computer games. The thing that I find interesting so far is how everything and every detail steps needs a instruction. This course is not really hard after you understand each instructions and concepts mean, however, it is harder than what I expected. The thing that I find hard so far is to memorize what each instruction is doing because some of them may be very similar and I sometimes get confused... I study me quizzes by doing the exercise repeatedly until I understand what each step is doing and can type one myself.