Second 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 important to practice and master the materials in the lectures and on the past tests before taking the exam.

I enjoyed the function that can make a lot of copies of images and put them together to form a pattern. I also think the new cond function is really useful. I think it is fun to layer different images and create different patterns. I also liked the little towers of images that we built in class a while ago.

Initially I found the cond function a bit confusing on how it works because I didn’t really pay attention in lectures due to other term tests. After a few attempt of stepping the function I then understand how it works and how to correctly use it.

For now, I think I can understand all the course materials by myself. In the future if I have any problems I will be going to office hours to find help.