Welcome to CSC 236 Course Log!

Heh... guess I'm a bit late at this.

Hello all, this is my journal entry for CSC 236, where I will put my own personal reactions (to the course), problem solving solutions and what I've learned here on this blog.

First off, I will discourage anyone from viewing this blog unless they are a part of CSC236, either a fellow classmate or the instructor/TAs. Just in case they don't understand what I'm talking about and wasting their own time :P.

Onwards:
First Class (September 8, 2008):

After a relaxing summer, it's time to go back to school for my second year at U of T!
The knowledge of first year told me to never-ever take two courses right next to each other and as well not to take early morning courses. Well, there's nothing I can do about this course (unfortunately, I think that 10 a.m. classes are still way too early), so I guess I'll have to handle it for this semester.

CSC236 is, in my opinion, the continuation of CSC165 with more depth and material, having gone through CSC165 I thought I'm prepared with most of the course material...

...And I was so wrong, well... not what we are learning of course. Induction was taught over and over again in high school and rather forcefully in MAT137, so I have a clear grasp on that. But after reading through chapter 0 in the course note, I discovered that I still have a bit more gap to fill in order to succeed in this course.

Not only that, I *almost* forgot a lot of 165 material (thankfully it didn't take that long to get everything back in my head) due to the 4 month break. I'm also a bit not used to relaxing the proof structure that was done for the whole semester in 165, guess I'll have to get more comfortable with that.

The last thing that I'm uncomfortable with is to write the course journal out in public like this, I really wished to have the old CSC165 wiki/SLoG back.