SLOG Oct6th

      It's almost the end of this term, and I'm about to finish studying CSC104. In this term, I learned a lot from this course. I started from knowing nothing about DrRacket to being able to use DrRacket to do some calculation, to create an image, to do recursions. I had learned java before, but I started DrRacket all fresh. DrRacket made me become more interested in computer science.       I'm happy to give some advice to students who are about to join this course. Firstly, you don't need to worry even if you know nothing about computer science or DrRacket. You would get to start from the very beginning. You will get to know about functions, know about what kind of input will produce the output you are looking for. If you want to prepare for this course, downloading DrRacket is the very first step that you need to do. Then, be creative. There is more than one answer when creating a function. For example, when you want to rotate an image clockwise 45 degrees, you can

The final exam for CSC104 is next Monday. So far, I've reviewed several topics, for example, "define" "data types" "numbers" "boolean" "image" and some functions like "filter" "apply" "map". Luckily, we just did our tt2 not too long ago, so memories are still fresh. Also, as we just handed in our second project, we used many functions in the project, that was also a way of reviewing the knowledge we learned. When I got stuck reviewing for final exam, I went to the office hour to ask the TAs for help. It actually was much more helpful to just go ask the TAs than struggling by myself.

It has been a while since tt2, and we just finished our second project last week. First of all, I want to talk about term test 2, it mainly tested on recursion, which was the part that I considered as the hardest so far. But because of the first project, I became more comfortable with recursion, as the first project used lots of recursions. In order to prepare for term test 2, I gathered with some of my friends who were taking CSC104 to study for the test. I was not quite pleased with my mark for tt2, I would study even harder for the final exam. Secondly, I want to talk about my second project. It was comparatively easier than project 1, so it took us less time to finish it. But the hardest part of the second project was writing the findings from trying to play around with the project. The patterns were easy to be found. Finals are coming pretty soon, I would try to spend more time reviewing for CSC104 and try to do better on my final exam.