Weekly learning

Some computer history and components are taught to us this week. I find some of the facts quiet fascinating, such as dipping flash drive into water, after drying, it will still work properly. Another fact about how hard drive stores information by using magnetic disc contained within, and the data is stored in there through magnetizing the north and south pole.
With the addition of the coding scheme using true and false condition through "condition", it will be probably useful when we are implementing the additional features of the assignment 1, clock. Since I have a lot of assignments to be working on, I will leave this blog this short and concise until next week.

Review of mistakes made on the term test.

After taking back the midterm and reviewing what some of the mistakes or short-comings I have, it seems my marks were lost to the partial marks lost from 1st and 2nd question of comparisons. And the for the final question, I have finally realized what the Prof. Danny is looking for in the answers. I believe I have understand all the codes I have made so far, and I was surprised when I learned that I had to make more check-expect cases for the function. Before talking to the professor, I thought it was just a repetitive step that doesn't have any actual meanings. But after talking to the professor, and listening to him explaining it in details. I understand the multiple check-expect cases are needed to pick out different program code that might result 1 of the check-expect case to succeed. And multiple cases are needed to pick out these non-intended program codes.

I would hope to receive a term test solution soon so I would be able to compare what I am missing in the definition and comparisons in my question 1 and 2 though.

Quizzes and Tests and Codes

   After learning about the computer history and the DrRacket programming codes so far in this course, I have realized several of my short comings in terms of understanding the materials throughly. Before learning about the programmings in this course, I thought of programming as ideas came from extremely smart nerds which normal people cannot hope to comprehend. Then, as I started learning the DrRacket program in this class, it helped me fully comprehend that we just have to think logically and code in a structured way that computer can comprehend for a program to work.And after learning about it for 4 weeks, I started enjoy the new codes we learn every week and became better at it.This might just be one of the first university courses I find extremely useful in life.

  By programming with DrRacket, I sometimes encounter error messages like:

          read: expected a `)' to close `('possible cause: indentation 
                   suggests a missing `)' before line 16 
These error messages are extremely useful when I am programming on DrRacket. Just image that I made these mistakes every now and then, and no specific error messages were prompted. I probably would be wracking my brains for hours to found out how stupid I am for missing a single closing bracket.Thus, the prompting error messages incorporated is probably one of the best advantages of using DrRacket.

  One high-light of this course is weekly quizzes that tests our understandings of codes made from tutorial. It's not too stressful as long as I spend enough time to work on the codes at home before the next class. I believe these quizzes are a very good way to strength our programming foundations every week.

  Not too long ago(2 days ago actually), we had the first mid-term in this class. The materials tested reflected on what we have learnt so far. I believed I prepared throughly before the actual midterm. However, sometimes reality is much worse than you can image. I was totally stuck on the last program that on the midterm. The question is basically asking examinees to complete what's stated on the check-expect code, provide comments and provide the new functions needed to complete the entire program. And this was definitely not what I expected, I did not solve or seen a question as of this form in the tutorials or the lectures. I believe I have fully understood all the codes, but the last question pretty much gave the entire solution within the check-expect, all I did was change around and put it into the function. However, the sheer easiness of this question (or maybe how I thought of the solution for this question) made me doubting whether I am doing it right or wrong. Now I just hope to get a solution for this question to confirm what's suppose to be done for the question.

  Hopefully, I will understand the question on the exam and make improvement as I progress throughout the course. I believe I will become more confident about the coming term tests as I get a handle on different programming materials.

Blog Testing Post

Since this is the first time I am using the Blog posting. I would like to confirm what it looks like through this blog testing post. Anyone who is reading this can just ignore this.



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