Mixed It Up

Week 3

Saturday & Sunday, January 26th, 2013

This is the end of the third week and to be honest, the materials in CSC165 we are being taught and tested are getting slightly harder. For example, I spent three hours straight on thursday with my fully attention (no music, no snacks, no facebook) to focus on the first assignment. But unfortunately, till now, I am close but still haven't finish the entire work, and I am not sure for at least 1/3 of my answers are correct or not. Another example that makes me feel the course is getting tough is the tutorial set: I studied ahead before the tutorial to try the problem sets, but even with the explanations from our lovely & patient TA, I still couldn't understand some of the concepts. Well, I did actually find it interesting when I was trying to figure out and solve the problem in tutorial and on the assignment: those problem are like puzzles and once you've solved it, you feel like you've won a war or gonna get some sweet candies! So I guess I would spend more time if possible to review all my lecture notes and maybe I would also look for some problems from the internet or book to help. Who knows, maybe the weather here is a reason why my brain is not working well: the freezing weather in Toronto is getting pretty annoying, aw, how much I do miss you, Vancouver...

(ECO test next Monday, 165 & 148 afternoon tutorials on Tuesday, 165 assignment dues on Wed, 148 assignment dues on Friday.......)

Thanks for reading!

Roland Qiyang Liu

First Impressions, CSC165

Week 1-2

Monday, January 14, 2013

This is the second week of the semester and I have attended four CSC165 lectures already. To be honest, I was a little scared of CSC165 because I have two friends who took CSC165 last semester and according to what they said that it was an easy course at all. But I have decided to give it my best try. After enrolling in the course for two weeks, we realize that the understanding of English language and logic of relation between items are quite important in this class. So I would focus on those parts and try to avoid unnecessary mistakes. I also like this course because it seems like that I could have more chances to write down ideas and codes on actual paper instead of simply typing on my computer and keeping changing things all over again. In general, I think CSC165 could be an interesting course and I hope I can do well on it.

Thanks for reading!

Roland (Qiyang) Liu