Final SLOG for CSC 104

This is the last week before finals and I would say that over all, CSC104 was not a challenging course for me. I think the lectures and tutorial quizzes were planed out well to let us keep up with the new materials and always look back to the previous materials while reviewing for the term tests.

Some advices that I would give to students who are just starting this course would be: attend lectures, review before the weekly quizzes and just play with racket if you have time. I don’t think this is a really challenging course if you attend all the lectures and take notes while in lectures. All the review documents before the quizzes actually helped a lot in terms of reinforce the lecture materials and by doing more practices most materials would be easy to understand. Something that I found was a bit challenging was the two assignments that we were assigned. I figured that it really helped to have a teammate so that when one of you are stuck on one function, the other person may be able to work it out easily. It is also really important to look at the hints and instructions in the assignments since they told you how to correctly approach the final solutions.

If you want to design a function, I think the best way is to first figure out what you want as the result of the function with some check expects and then find ways to write some more detailed check expects to design your function and then write the define of your function with the complete check expects. It takes some practices to get use to this way of designing a function but I think it is a really efficient way to work out how to write functions and after you write the functions you actually have ways to check if the functions you wrote were correct or not.


Overall I think CSC104 is a really fun course and it make me want to try to take some other computer science courses in the future.

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