Assignment 1 Over and Out

Well, now that Assignment 1 is over, I actually have the time to add this blog. Better late than never I guess.

Since this is my first post, I'll just go over everything I've thought of so far in chronological order.

Well, we started the first class with a full 3 hour lecture much to my dismay lol. In most other classes I had, we were let out earlier even though most my courses were 3 hour night lectures. Haha even worse, Professor Heap went right to the serious stuff and started talking about induction. I'm glad that I'm comfortable with induction otherwise I would have just died there. After getting a syllabus and looking at it, I realized that this term was gonna be a lot of work. Looking at the schedule, it seemed like there would be something every week, whether it was a problem set, an assignment, or a test. I didn't particularly enjoy CSC165, and CSC236 seems to be a continuation of it, so hoping for the best. At least Professor Heap mentioned that the structure of proofs for this course won't be as rigid as that of CSC165, that's something to be grateful of. On a brighter note, I've mentioned Professor Heap already, but I'm glad that he's the one teaching this course. Despite not enjoying CSC165 too much, I did enjoy having Professor Heap teaching the material. I guess, with that ends my thoughts from the first week.

The only thing that lingers in my mind of Week 2 was the first Problem Set. I was glad that it was relatively easy and I could figure out what to do for both questions. However, I did have some trouble trying to put my thoughts down as words, especially for question 2. After getting it back, too thrilled about my mark, but I at least the comments were helpful.

I found the Problem Set for Week 3 to be rather interesting. Even though the problem with stamps was brought up in class, the one on the problem set was abit different. At first i found the wording to be rather confusing with the n>N, but after completing the Problem Set, I understood why the wording was the way it was. At least the problem was interesting to do, and not just another boring proof. So far all the material covered hasn't been too bad, and is still easy to understand and grasp.

Assignment 1 was more work than I had expected it to be. I first quickly looked it over, and thought that it seemed pretty simple, and Question 1 really was. However, once again I had the trouble of finding a way to convey my thoughts into an actual proof. I wasn't too sure if what I had down was enough, even thought to me it seemed fully proven. Question 2 was rather fun and amusing. It was different from most other proofs I've had to do which made it interesting. It required abit of thought, but overall, it wasn't too bad. It was Question 3 that gave me some trouble. I had read it over and over, and still didn't really understand what the question was asking. The frustrating thing was that I fully understood part b, but had no way of doing it without part a. After reading some forum posts, I managed to slightly grasp what to do, but I'm still not sure if it was right or not. I hope I had the right idea at least. Overall, the assignment wasn't too bad, maybe I should work with a partner next time.

On another note, I had a laugh when some friends came over while I was working on Assignment 1. These friends were in random programs, most of them haven't touch math since high school. They saw the rough work I had on my white board, and just had these twisted up faces of confusion. They gave me some pitiful looks as I laughed and told them it wasn't as bad as it looked. At least my friends all think I'm abit smarter than before now haha.

I hope the first test won't be too bad. What I'm hoping for is that the questions would be similar to those we had on the Problem Sets and Assignment, but abit shorter, since we get a week to work on the Problem Sets and Assignment, but only a few hours for the test.

Anyways, I guess that's enough for my first post. It pretty much sums up all I have to say about the course so far.