SLOG by the end of 4th week

This week we just finished our first assignment of CSC165. For me, it was not a easy job to work alone, but I got to find some teammates. I met Brendon and Sado who were just about to invite another teammate and there we are. At the very beginning we decided to work separately then combined the answers together. The first two questions were easy, but we had three completely different versions of answers which freaked us out. As our schedules were quite different that we only got Friday afternoon to make it. And the last two questions were out of our range. We were not sure about the final answers after a three-hour discussion. The exam is coming next, and we started to worry about ourselves. It is time to change the way we deal with this stuff. A hard weekend is wait for me.

SLOG by the end of the 3rd week

This week we continued  learning about mathematical expressions, like conjunction, disjunction, negation and so on. I have already learned it in high school, to my surprise, it is getting hard than I imagine. I used to draw Venn Graphs for the expressions which are complicated and abstract, and it is still useful while I learn this part at a different sight angle.

Actually, I kinda like the content of class in this morning, a interesting puzzle of folding a piece of strip. I like to find the regular pattern of it, and this one was not hard for me. I used arrows to represent ups and downs directly. I was wondering whether there were more than one outcome as we fold it irregularly before I started, a terrible picture of numbers and arrows appeared in my head, and that was too complicated. Followed the steps and I recorded the vertex of the creases point by arrows. First that were odd numbers of creases points each time, by formula (2^n-1), when n is the times of folding. Then I found each time the middle arrow which was always down, and that made me think whether it could be symmetrically to spread the arrows(the symmetric I said was not a standard mathematical symmetric). Next I found the arrows in the previous folding could be carry down, and with filling ups and downs at each gap of two arrows it came out the one we just recorded. Actually I tried four foldings and I was pretty sure my solutions was correct.  

1st SLOG by the end of 2nd Week

I took computer science as my major and CSC165 was a need for my future working. I didn't realize that it is important for me until I started to understand what professor was saying, though it was not hard. Basically we are talking about logics, expressing the implication by using English sentences, we can also use universal qualifications to express them in a mathematical way which is more accurate, plus the use of Venn graphs makes them visible  and easier to understand. I also took some math classes where I may use the knowledge I learned to solve that puzzle.
By the way I have to say CSC165 is such a big class, I mean every time I attend the class I can still see some people sitting on the floor, for me I have to rush by the end of a CSC108 class from MB in order not to stand at the very back. This is not reasonable to put too many students in a class which might influence the efficiency of students study schedule.  I hope my suggestion might be considered in the future.