Assignment 2

The main focus of this week is assignment 2 and wikipedia.

Wikipedia III involved editing and translating article from Chinese to English. It took much more time than I have expected and estimated but I still managed to complete it since I have done the wikipedia editing through out the weeks.

Now moving on to the assignment 2 that will be due next week. There is still many incomplete functions that I have to work on. As of now I am still stuck on one of the way to implement the function, more attempted will be made later on tonight with the hope of solving this. I will make use of my resources - classmates, tutorial, and Professor on Wednesday if I still cannot figure it out by then.

So I will leave this week's post like this. For the topic for the up coming week's SLOG, there will be my attempted algorithm post. Please look forward to it ^0^.

Term test II and Assignment 1

The lecture material we have learned this week makes me think about how the technology that have impacted our lives. It is a good thing and a bad thing from different prospective. The advantages of the technology provided us better life-styles, extended life-expectancies, more career options. Thou on the down side, we are working longer compare to before. But overall, I believe it is human nature to advance in life over time. So these changes are unavoidable.

I guess after my hard work on studying for the term test II. It definitely paid off in the actual test. I am fairly confident about all the question I have done on the test. And I hope my actual marks would reflect what I have in mind.

The assignments we have completed is really useful as it links up everything we have learned so far and applied it to an actual program. I think by completing the actual assignment, it really helps build stronger foundations for the final exam.

Getting ready for the term test

A bit late on the blog entry this week due to varies assignments needed to be done. I am still glad for that fact that I remembered about the weekly blog on  Sunday.

The quiz that I have done this week is relatively straight forward after doing the tutorial exercises. There is nothing tricky to be elaborated about in the quiz I believe. The major focus I have this week is the preparations for the term test 2. Reviewing the printed out slides and in class notes are a must, however, for me to go through the recursion problems is still quiet a hurdle for me. Thus, my main focus of the review will be figuring out all the details of how the program traces through each operations of the recursive function.

Quiz and Tutorial for the week

The tutorial problems for this week dealt with manipulating character inputs in Dr.Racket. For the most problem, we made functions to generate a variation from the result of the user input. And the most interesting function we were asked to implement is the reply functions, where we "fake an A.I" in the program. And this "fake A.I" would reply "I need coffee","I need a nap" or"bedtime!" when you type in "good morning","good afternoon" or "good night". The tutorial really showed me the extend of computer programming.

The quiz we have had this week seems to be more tricky as the same can be said about last week. I foreseen the future quizzes will be harder. Guess I should prepare more for the later quizzes.