Slog for CSC 104

For the past few weeks when I prepare for quizzes I usually just do the exercise problems that were posted on the course website. I would look at the practice problems and practice a few times the day before the quiz by both write the results down on paper and use step parallel on racket to check the results. I think doing the weekly exercises and quizzes helped me a lot in terms of refreshing the contents we learned in the lectures. The quizzes also give me a better understanding of how much things I understood and which parts I should do more work on. For the first term test I looked at and did all the past test that were posted on the course website. I printed and did some of the practice tests before I start reviewing to see what I should focus on while reviewing. Initially I didn’t know how to do some of the questions and I figured them out by looking at other people’s explanations on piazza. I think piazza is really helpful. I think in order to do well on the tests it is imp...

The reason that I chose CSC104 is because I want to explore my interests during my first year of University. I’ve heard from other people that this is a great course for people like me who don’t know anything about programming. Also I think it is important and would be beneficial in the future to know at least some basic knowledge and concepts about programming. I hope that by the end of this semester course I would develop some understanding about programing. I also took CSC108 for the spring semester so I hope that CSC104 would prepare me for future programming courses. Before attending the first lecture I expected programming to be some how boring and extremely hard since it is famous for its crazy cut-off rate for second year. However, for my experiences so far CSC104 is actually one of the most interesting and engaging courses that I had. Since I had no knowledge in this area of study, this course is completely new to me and I hope that as time goes by I could still be able t...