Hi everyone!
Recently assignment 3 has just been posted, and when I first looked at it I thought to myself: "What is this jibrish???". Seriously, if you were to show a random person on the street (assuming they have no experience in computer science), they would also think the same thing and be even more confused than I was, in tackling the assignment. However, I first looked at this assignment before even reading up on what we were actually covering in class, so that's probably why I thought it looked like jibrish. I like to start my assignments early just so I can get it out of the way, and also because I have other plans the week that it's due, that would prevent me from working on it. I never used to always start my assignments early, but since I only have 4 courses this semester and since I have a lot of free time during my weeks, I had nothing better to do than start the assignment. Haha. I'm a nerd! Kidding! Sort of...
Anyways, I just realized that there are only 2 more weeks of classes left! The semester actually just flew by so fast! Also another note, it's been 20 days since I submitted Assignment 2 and I still haven't gotten a mark back! I'm not complaining or anything, but the suspense is killing me! Also I know I said that this post would be a math problem that was difficult, but I still haven't found one yet, because I'm too smart. Haha, I'm just kidding I just can't solve any of them and it's hard to pick one. I'll get to it soon, don't worry guys. I know you're all eager to see it.
Ciao,
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Relaxing
Hey everyone!
It's been such a relaxing week. I decided to not spend this week doing any work other than attending classes, because I was pretty tired from my midterms. This week I'll get back to work though. We're covering proving the correctness of programs right now in lectures, and I don't think it's too hard, but it will still take a bit of time to understand and settle in. We covered a bit of this topic last year in CSC165 so hopefully I will be able to pick up the concepts and methods quickly. I'm pretty sure we are getting our second midterm marks back this week, so hopefully everything goes well. This coming week, you can expect me to post a mathematical puzzle/problem I found interesting and challenging on the blog. I hope you're excited! Just kidding, I wouldn't expect you to be excited about reading about a math problem.
Aside from the course material, I'm am planning on reading up on and learning the basics of creating apps for the Android platform this week. I have a couple of ideas, very basic ideas, for apps that I want to create and hopefully distribute on Google Play. I still can't believe that some people make the simplest apps possible and generate such a large revenue from it. For example, a basic flashlight app for the android has been downloaded and paid for so many times from the app store! It just creates a bright light on the phone! Isn't that crazy!?! As you know from my last post, I'm really into sports, especially tennis and basketball, so my ideas for apps are based on sports, healthy living, and sustainability of the body. Hopefully, I can create great apps and will just become super popular on the app stores. Then I can drop out of school! Ha, just kidding.
I'll keep you guys posted on my progress!
See you later!
It's been such a relaxing week. I decided to not spend this week doing any work other than attending classes, because I was pretty tired from my midterms. This week I'll get back to work though. We're covering proving the correctness of programs right now in lectures, and I don't think it's too hard, but it will still take a bit of time to understand and settle in. We covered a bit of this topic last year in CSC165 so hopefully I will be able to pick up the concepts and methods quickly. I'm pretty sure we are getting our second midterm marks back this week, so hopefully everything goes well. This coming week, you can expect me to post a mathematical puzzle/problem I found interesting and challenging on the blog. I hope you're excited! Just kidding, I wouldn't expect you to be excited about reading about a math problem.
Aside from the course material, I'm am planning on reading up on and learning the basics of creating apps for the Android platform this week. I have a couple of ideas, very basic ideas, for apps that I want to create and hopefully distribute on Google Play. I still can't believe that some people make the simplest apps possible and generate such a large revenue from it. For example, a basic flashlight app for the android has been downloaded and paid for so many times from the app store! It just creates a bright light on the phone! Isn't that crazy!?! As you know from my last post, I'm really into sports, especially tennis and basketball, so my ideas for apps are based on sports, healthy living, and sustainability of the body. Hopefully, I can create great apps and will just become super popular on the app stores. Then I can drop out of school! Ha, just kidding.
I'll keep you guys posted on my progress!
See you later!
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Almost Done
Hi everyone!
I'm not sure if anyone, other than my professor and the TAs, is actually reading this blog, but I hope you are enjoying it! This week has been hectic! I finished 3 of the 4 of my midterms with the last one being tomorrow and for this class. I can't wait to finish it and just relax, eat, sleep, workout, and just "chill". Not much has happened in regards to the class this week. Our second assignment was due Friday and we just started learning about the correctness of programs. I found the assignment actually kind of sneaky, if that makes any sense, because of the first question. The first question involved coming up with a recurrence, proving the recurrence, and explaining why it is true. It was sneaky because when unwinding the recurrence (which was the Fibonacci recurrence) , we actually need the Fibonacci recurrence to find the closed form of the recurrence. It was like inception, but with recurrences. Haha. Anyways, I thought it was kind of interesting.
I don't know if I've mentioned this yet, but I am a huge sports fan, especially when it comes to tennis and basketball. For those of you who watch, keep up, or just enjoy tennis, check this shot out by Grigor Dmitrov.
I'm not sure if anyone, other than my professor and the TAs, is actually reading this blog, but I hope you are enjoying it! This week has been hectic! I finished 3 of the 4 of my midterms with the last one being tomorrow and for this class. I can't wait to finish it and just relax, eat, sleep, workout, and just "chill". Not much has happened in regards to the class this week. Our second assignment was due Friday and we just started learning about the correctness of programs. I found the assignment actually kind of sneaky, if that makes any sense, because of the first question. The first question involved coming up with a recurrence, proving the recurrence, and explaining why it is true. It was sneaky because when unwinding the recurrence (which was the Fibonacci recurrence) , we actually need the Fibonacci recurrence to find the closed form of the recurrence. It was like inception, but with recurrences. Haha. Anyways, I thought it was kind of interesting.
I don't know if I've mentioned this yet, but I am a huge sports fan, especially when it comes to tennis and basketball. For those of you who watch, keep up, or just enjoy tennis, check this shot out by Grigor Dmitrov.
Anyways, I should start preparing for tomorrow's midterm. If you have any other cool videos (related to sports or computer science), feel free to leave them in the comment section below!
Ciao!
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Things are getting hectic!
Hey everyone!
I finally got my assignment mark back! It took so long for some of us for some reason. Other students got their mark back roughly 3-5 days before I did. It was pretty stressful waiting for the marks. Thankfully that's over and I'm happy with my mark, so everything is alright.
Aside from that, the CSC236 lectures have been alright. The material looked pretty difficult at the beginning, but I am slowly getting a grasp of things. There is definitely a huge change in difficulty from the work at the beginning of the semester to the work we are doing now. I was also a bit behind in the material because I spent one of the lectures trying to figure out the second assignment rather than actually paying attention. I'm all caught up though, so it's alright.
The past couple weeks have been so relaxing. I don't have that many hours of classes and on top of that I didn't have any test or assignments due. But now, I have a quiz tomorrow, a midterm Thursday, 2 midterms and the second assignment for this class due Friday, and then the midterm for this class the Monday after that! (You can pity me now). I'm actually kind of looking forward to this week, which may sound weird, because I like being busy. These past 2 weeks have been great, but some of the days I was pretty bored. Also, the feeling you get after finishing such a hectic week is amazing. It feels like you can just lie down and not care about anything. It's so relaxing. The sad thing is that I can't fully enjoy Halloween because of all the work coming up.
This was sent to me and it pretty much sums up my life at the moment: http://whatshouldwecallmcgill.tumblr.com/post/34358018055/not-being-able-to-fully-enjoy-halloween-because-i-have
Anyways time to get back to work! No pain no gain!
Wish me luck!
I finally got my assignment mark back! It took so long for some of us for some reason. Other students got their mark back roughly 3-5 days before I did. It was pretty stressful waiting for the marks. Thankfully that's over and I'm happy with my mark, so everything is alright.
Aside from that, the CSC236 lectures have been alright. The material looked pretty difficult at the beginning, but I am slowly getting a grasp of things. There is definitely a huge change in difficulty from the work at the beginning of the semester to the work we are doing now. I was also a bit behind in the material because I spent one of the lectures trying to figure out the second assignment rather than actually paying attention. I'm all caught up though, so it's alright.
The past couple weeks have been so relaxing. I don't have that many hours of classes and on top of that I didn't have any test or assignments due. But now, I have a quiz tomorrow, a midterm Thursday, 2 midterms and the second assignment for this class due Friday, and then the midterm for this class the Monday after that! (You can pity me now). I'm actually kind of looking forward to this week, which may sound weird, because I like being busy. These past 2 weeks have been great, but some of the days I was pretty bored. Also, the feeling you get after finishing such a hectic week is amazing. It feels like you can just lie down and not care about anything. It's so relaxing. The sad thing is that I can't fully enjoy Halloween because of all the work coming up.
This was sent to me and it pretty much sums up my life at the moment: http://whatshouldwecallmcgill.tumblr.com/post/34358018055/not-being-able-to-fully-enjoy-halloween-because-i-have
Anyways time to get back to work! No pain no gain!
Wish me luck!
Friday, 19 October 2012
Over One Hurdle
Hey everyone!
Alright so this week was not that bad. We got our marks back for the midterm (I did well, so I'm not complaining), and we should be getting our marks back for our first assignment any day now. Apparently, someone in another timezone is marking the last question of the assignment... I don't understand why the professor just doesn't get some TA at the university to mark that last question instead of someone in another province. It doesn't really matter, but I just find it a bit weird. Maybe the person marking the last question is some sort of super genius... Hmm...
Just when I thought we would have a little break in this course, the second assignment gets assigned. I guess this is what you get once you start paying for school. Constant work. I shouldn't really be complaining since my class schedule is pretty empty.
Anyways, Halloween is coming up and I'm trying to decide on a costume. My choices right now are: Abed from Community, a Rubik's Cube, Obama (just a mask of Obama's face), or the Old Spice guy from the commercials. Hopefully, I can come up with some more ideas. If you have any ideas on what I should be, please leave a comment below. I'd appreciate it. It has to be really COOL though. I'm just kidding, it can be anything.
Alright, well it's Friday night so that means it's fiesta time!
Alright so this week was not that bad. We got our marks back for the midterm (I did well, so I'm not complaining), and we should be getting our marks back for our first assignment any day now. Apparently, someone in another timezone is marking the last question of the assignment... I don't understand why the professor just doesn't get some TA at the university to mark that last question instead of someone in another province. It doesn't really matter, but I just find it a bit weird. Maybe the person marking the last question is some sort of super genius... Hmm...
Just when I thought we would have a little break in this course, the second assignment gets assigned. I guess this is what you get once you start paying for school. Constant work. I shouldn't really be complaining since my class schedule is pretty empty.
Anyways, Halloween is coming up and I'm trying to decide on a costume. My choices right now are: Abed from Community, a Rubik's Cube, Obama (just a mask of Obama's face), or the Old Spice guy from the commercials. Hopefully, I can come up with some more ideas. If you have any ideas on what I should be, please leave a comment below. I'd appreciate it. It has to be really COOL though. I'm just kidding, it can be anything.
Alright, well it's Friday night so that means it's fiesta time!
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Midterm Master (Hopefully)
Hey everyone!
Alright, so we just had our CSC236 midterm this morning, and I don't know about you guys, but I thought it went pretty well. Hopefully I don't jinx myself! Maybe it was from all the studying I did.... or maybe it was just pure luck, who knows. Hopefully the next midterm goes as well as the one today.
Not much else has happened in the course so far, since it was just Thanksgiving weekend, but I'm sure the hard parts of the course are about to be introduced. Honestly, I don't even want to think about that. It's just going to cause more stress for me.
I'm going to sleep as much as I can while I still understand what is going on in the course.
By the way, I don't know if you guys know but it's CAT WEEK this week! I was thinking of wearing cat shirts the whole cat week, but then I decided I don't want to be looked at as a 'weirdo'. Anyways, here is a really interesting blog about cats that my friend (Jennifer) made for school: http://catz4life.blogspot.ca/
I'm sure she would love to read your comments about it. Hope you enjoy it!
Alright, so we just had our CSC236 midterm this morning, and I don't know about you guys, but I thought it went pretty well. Hopefully I don't jinx myself! Maybe it was from all the studying I did.... or maybe it was just pure luck, who knows. Hopefully the next midterm goes as well as the one today.
Not much else has happened in the course so far, since it was just Thanksgiving weekend, but I'm sure the hard parts of the course are about to be introduced. Honestly, I don't even want to think about that. It's just going to cause more stress for me.
I'm going to sleep as much as I can while I still understand what is going on in the course.
By the way, I don't know if you guys know but it's CAT WEEK this week! I was thinking of wearing cat shirts the whole cat week, but then I decided I don't want to be looked at as a 'weirdo'. Anyways, here is a really interesting blog about cats that my friend (Jennifer) made for school: http://catz4life.blogspot.ca/
I'm sure she would love to read your comments about it. Hope you enjoy it!
Thursday, 4 October 2012
The Headache Begins
Hi!
Welcome to CSC236 inside my head. This blog will give you insight into what I feel and think about CSC236 during the course of this semester.
Right now, this course doesn't seem that bad, but I probably just jinxed myself. Oh well, I guess I just have to hope for the best. I have the first assignment for this course due tomorrow, and luckily I started early so I am not panicking just yet. The last question seemed the toughest but hopefully I got it correct.
Also, I just realized that the first midterm for this class is next week! I've got to step-up my studying now. My fingers are crossed that the exam won't be that bad. Also I hate typing math up on the computer. There are so many little symbols that needs to be used! I wish we were allowed to write out our assignments by hand!
Anyways, I need to go take a nap. Too much excitement from this course...
Welcome to CSC236 inside my head. This blog will give you insight into what I feel and think about CSC236 during the course of this semester.
Right now, this course doesn't seem that bad, but I probably just jinxed myself. Oh well, I guess I just have to hope for the best. I have the first assignment for this course due tomorrow, and luckily I started early so I am not panicking just yet. The last question seemed the toughest but hopefully I got it correct.
Also, I just realized that the first midterm for this class is next week! I've got to step-up my studying now. My fingers are crossed that the exam won't be that bad. Also I hate typing math up on the computer. There are so many little symbols that needs to be used! I wish we were allowed to write out our assignments by hand!
Anyways, I need to go take a nap. Too much excitement from this course...
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