Date: September 12, 2008
A week has gone by for my second year, and it just seems so different from the start of my first year. I still remember the confusion of first year, running around trying to find the right lecture room, the massive workload, the amount of new material there is to learn...
It's all different now, with the workload and schedule lowered drastically, it's much better for me to spend time equally for all my courses, so that I won't repeat the mistake of CSC165.
Again, we cover induction from CSC165, it really isn't that hard. Strangely, the proof that we did in the first week is actually applicable in a course like STA247... how handy!
To be honest, compared to my other courses, this course has the most workload out of all 5. My reasoning is that we needed that much more practice and experience to get the most out of it for this course, as we can be better prepared for higher level CSC theory courses.
...I'm not (really!) complaining about the workload here, as I have to say CSC165 followed this pattern and that everything I learned is through though assignments and exercises, and the information is very valuable and useful in courses besides Computer Science.
I guess there must be some complicated cost/benefit analysis that would analyze whether the extra work in this course pays off by helping with related work in other courses.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you find your total weekly workload running significantly more than 8 hours (including lectures), let's talk about it.