A3 and Test 3

Hello everyone, for those students reading this, good luck to you on the exam and lets hope for the best.

The third assignment wasn't so bad. For question three, which seemed really easy, was actually a bit tricky. It was the question where you had to prove that for any regular expression that is without a kleene star, it would denote a finite language. Well, I had the idea that if you prove that regular expressions, excluding the kleene star, is finite, then automatically the language is finite. It just makes sense. For example, if I proved that operations under regular expressions such as:

1) (a+a')
2)(aa')

are finite, then the language that uses those operations is finite. I used that idea in my assignment and made it fancy by using big words. Lets hope it works out =].

Anyways, test 3 is coming up and I am definately scared of DFSA's!! Its not just a scary name, its even a scary subject. I think if i spend some time reading online websites about the subject, it should help me out. I lost the course book, so i can't use that to help me out. I think it will be fine if I just read it over from the lecture slides and other sources. That will be my plan for test 3. More on the exam later. Bye bye.

Regular Exrpessions

The regular expressions presented in class seemed okay until the * symbol showed up. It became very confusing and the proof that was presented made me even more confused. I went to the csc help centre and they explained how the * in this course's examples worked. I understand now so yay, but the proof is a little sketchy too. When DFSA was introduced, it sounded like a subject that would be easy, because topics with very long and confusing titles tend to be easy. It is where the name adds some confusion into the material haha. Anyways, it is not the case here. It is not so bad, I like how Danny explained it in class, he explains it so well even though he uses non-everyday words. Atleast I understand it.

Right now I'm looking at the final problem set due this thursday, and I must say, i spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to deal with languages and stuff in this context. I'm going to attempt it now and I'll see how I do after this night. Bye for now.

This course is getting harder =[

WOW, test 2 was not fair hahaha. Well it was, I'm just saying that because I didn't do such a good job. I find the material to be very challenging for me. I think this course is taking an unusual turn. I'm just not understanding. I tried to go over the slides many times and follow up on notes, but I can't seem to get the material through my head. I guess the next step would be to try to go to office hours. It is week 10 in the course and the material after test 2 is more harder. Hmm I wonder if going to the csc help centre everyday and asking so many questions would help. I'll try that and see what happens. I need all the help i can get for A3. I don't know anybody in the course so I can't find a partner for it.

Test results, A2 and more!

WOW, first test was fair. I didn't get the mark I wanted to, but its okay, I'm still happy. I was expecting much harder questions.

Now that I look at assignment two, the course is getting much much harder. Anything with recursion is difficult and takes time to understand for me, I think others feel the same way. The problem set number two is due tomarrow as well as ps4. Nobody said this will be easy , but the best way about getting this done and efficiently is using the csc help centre. The solutions to the questions don't just come fast, well not for me atleast. Sometimes, I don't know why, but when you stare at the problem, the solution just comes to your mind. I have stared at it for couple of hours and still nothing haha. Lets try the more logical approach by getting help. Until next time friends.

After Assignment 1

Its now week 4 and already there is a test next week.

Assignment 1 for this course was due at the start of this week and I am thankful that we didn't have to hand in the solutions to question 4 until later. I found that it was quite challenging for me, but not impossible. Thanks to the csc help centre, I was able to finish it and also understand more than I would have without the help. On the very same day that it was due, I had to write a quiz and submit homework for another course, so I kind of finished this assignment at the last minute. Understanding and writing the solutions took a good amount of time and now after rushing through this, I've learned that in the near future, I better start early on working on assignment 2. I'm just grateful that the A1 was due at 10pm.

As for the lectures, I decided to review the slides before coming to class. I've found this to be a great help since I now know what to expect. However, it is still too vague and I kind of skim through them quickly. Nonetheless, it helps, so I'm going to keep doing that. Good for me.

My impressions of csc236 so far

As for my first entry, I would just like to write about what I think about this course and what it can offer me. So far there has only been two, three hour, lectures. I have only been to the second week's lecture and to this point, I am already finding the material to be a little challenging. The first problem set was not so bad, but I know that it will get much harder later in the course. The way Danny presents the examples is kind of too fast for me. I don't get most of the material the first time around. Hopefully, that will change. It has only been one lecture session so far. Let's see how I'll do next week. Perhaps I'll try a different approach to understanding the material the next time around. I noticed that the slides Danny works on is posted a few days before the lecture. I'll try to read them and try to get some idea of what to expect in lecture. Even though there is not much written in them, I'll atleast know what Danny will cover.

This course seems like it will help a lot in the future when dealing with algorithms in programming. Right now, I don't think it will help that much with the other courses, but definitely in later years. I really like how Danny grades the term work in this course. It is very fair! I think this kind of marking would be good for the csc programming courses. Anyways, I'm tired now so this is where I will stop. Find out what my thoughts and goals are next week. Bye.

This is a test.

I'm just familiarizing myself with this website.