SLOG #8: Assignment 3

So I've been working on assignment 3 for a while now, decided to take a break and write a SLOG. It's been going okay, I've been having problems with proving the big-Oh, big-Omega, big-Theta. Basically this unit in general has got me kind of confused. I haven't gotten around to asking people yet, but from just what I've learned from the lectures, I can only do the first and second question flawlessly... the other three I'm having a lot of problems. L'Hopital's rule is confusing to me, which explains why I don't understand question 3, and 4 and 5 just don't make too much sense at the moment. Re-learning what L'Hopital's rule is, then going to tackle question 4 and 5 more properly.

SLOG #7: Sick... Catching Up

Last week I was sick for a good 3 days... So I did miss out on some classes. Hopefully, the class notes will help me out and I won't miss out on too much. I am aware of the assignment coming up, but before I can start that, I have to know what I'm doing first. So far, the notes don't make too much sense from just reading them. I plan on asking a friend to help me out, to try and understand this unit.

SLOG #6: Test DONE

Finished the test today. it was much easier than I was expecting, and the solutions just popped into my head as soon as I saw the question. Going to take a small break from CSC165, I have both psychology and math to catch up on. And by break, I mean until Monday.

SLOG #5: Test Prep

Studying for the test, so decided to take a quick break to update my SLOG. So far, I've been practicing on the past test that was given by the professor, and it's been going okay-ish. I've struggled quite a bit in spots I really shouldn't be struggling in, but I've managed to figure them out after a while. No time to go into detail on what and what hasn't been working for me, but hopefully by the end of tonight, (or whatever time I go to bed) I'll be prepared for the test tomorrow.

SLOG #4:Quick Day

Friday's lecture was relatively simple to understand, not much to ask on my part. Graph was a bit weird for me though, I had to stare for quite a while before understanding  why the graph look like such. Other than that, used today to go over a bit of the notes, as well as looked up the solutions for A2, and by the looks of it, we (my partner and I) managed to get at least 4 or 5 of them, and maybe some part marks for the last one, which is much better than I had expected. Other than that, a relatively slow day in productivity for this course. Also, lost an hour for today. Sad about that.

SLOG #3: Handed In... on time?

Yesterday, Assignment 2 was due at 11:59 pm, and I had handed it in... at 11:56 pm. I was still struggling to figure out question 6, and I was not that satisfied with the answer I had come up with. After asking my peers,  I finally figured out question 5, and how to prove it. It turned out much simpler than I though, all I had to do was prove both sides separately. What I had done for question 6 was prove 2 different parts of the proof, and then compare them to get the total proof. This doesn't make much sense when written down, which is probably why it through me off a lot before handing it in. I was originally contemplating on handing it in without even answering question 6, because I was that unsure about my solution, but I figured I might get more part marks than just 20% if I handed in what I had done.
My partner showed me what he had worked on (We split the work. Not the best way to do this, but I figured I'd be doing all the work anyways) and he hadn't answered a single question properly... Should've worked together more throughout the time we had to do the assignment, I guess. In the end, I re-did most of his work, but I made sure he understood what was going on. Hopefully, he'll know what to do for the nexxt term test.

SLOG #2: Assigment 2

Major problem, I underestimated assignment 2. Question 1 to 4, sure, not a great deal of problems. Question 5 and 6... It's time to seek help. My main problem is not completely understanding what the statement is saying, and I've tried figuring it out multiple times, but each time I end up with something different when I double check. And since I can't figure that out, figuring out whether or not I should prove or disprove it is another question altogether. I'm going to ask around for assistance, hopefully someone can help clarify what exactly the statement means. Then I'll tackle question 6.

In class, the concept of the proof was also a bit confusing at first, but thanks to prior knowledge of insertion sorting, today's class was a simple one for me to understand.