Goodbye (CSC104) World!

It's the final week of school! Well, final week of classes. This will be my final post for this "SLOG". It's been a busy semester but I made it through! Project 2 is complete (I hope I do better on this one...) and now this blog is also complete. Now, all that's left to do is provide a solution to a problem that I encountered during this course.

So at the beginning of the semester, the professor asked us to determine an "algorithm" for the number of ups and downs you get on a piece of paper after every time you fold the paper in half. The first fold you get one down (D). The second fold you get up (U) D D. The third fold you get UUDDUDD. The fourth fold gives UUDUUDDDUUDDUDD. This looks pretty confusing but there is a trend. To show this, you can rewrite the third and fourth folds as U U D D U D D and UUD U UDD D UUD D UDD. From this, you can see that there is a constant D in the middle and a constant U and D that "surrounds" the D in the middle (second fold: U D D). So, for n=3 folds, you take the surrounding U and D surrounding the middle D and use those to surround both of them: UUD D UDD. For n=4, you repeat the steps for n=3: take the ups and downs surrounding the middle D and use those to surround the constant U and D. This becomes UUDUUDD D UUDDUDD. Hence, you can make an algorithm for this: For n > 2, where n represents the number of folds, you add the ups and downs surrounding the central down fold of n-1 to either side of the up and down folds found in n = 2.

Hm...that algorithm sounds pretty confusing. Not sure how else to say it though! Well, hopefully you guys understand it...

Anyway, hope everyone's doing well and good luck on all your exams! That's all from me. Goodbye!

Zzzzzz

Just looked at my mark for Project 1 for CSC104 and I must say I'm not too happy. My ecosystem.rkt is running perfectly but was marked for having failed tests and not  responding to a change in FOXES-START. Problem with this is that when I ran it just now it responded as it should and no tests failed. Unless I somehow uploaded an old version of my ecosystem.rkt (which I highly doubt I did because I remember saving it before uploading) I should have gotten a much better mark on it. Ugh.

On a happier note, I got perfect on test 2 for CSC104. Also, only 2 more weeks of school left. Sadly, my exams don't end until April 26...so late! But at least there's time in between each one for me to study unlike other years.

Anyway, that's all for now. Still mad at the mark for Project 1 but whatever. Peace out.

Tests!!!

Whoopeeeee! Finished two tests this week and feeling pretty good about them again. Now just to study for PHL test which is next Wednesday...

But really, I was pretty scared going into the two tests this week. Too much LoL! But in the end I guess it was fine :D. The first two questions for the CSC104 test were a bit of a pain though. Did not read over the hardware notes as much as I wanted to but I still think I did OK on them. CSC104 seems to be a very common sense/"just use logic" kind of course at the moment. I just put what I would expect to happen. For example, if you incorporate memory into the CPU instead of transferring it through a bus, I'd assume there would be more heat production because of the complexity and size of CPUs nowadays.

School is almost over! Just three more weeks and then l'examinations begin! Five years of university...gone by so fast. And I'm still not as fit as I'd like to be. On that note...time to do some Insanity workout!

Phew!

Phew! Almost missed another CSC104 quiz by not waking up! Haha...I can't bear to lose free marks like that. When I missed the quiz before reading week because I couldn't get up for it, I was just kicking myself for the whole day. Even though each quiz is only worth about 1.5%, it's still a pretty much FREE 1.5%. Eight quizzes, so a free 12%!

On a happier note, I managed to fix my ecosystem.rkt with the help of the prof. And I pretty much finished my Wikipedia assignment. Speaking of which, I never mentioned that we had to do a Wikipedia assignment. Basically, for this assignment, you would make an account on Wikipedia and then "help out" by fixing and/or adding content to pages that require looking over. I guess I might read over a couple more articles and copy-edit those as well just because it's pretty straightforward.

Anyway, another busy two weeks lie ahead of me. Two tests next week and one + an assignment the week after :(. So that's all for now!

ecosystem.rkt

It feels good not having anymore tests for the next few weeks! Although I still have a few assignments to do; one of which I'm having some difficulty completing at the moment. For CSC104, we have to make an "ecosystem" in Dr. Racket. You have a picture of a fox and a mouse, and over time the pictures scale according to one another. So, a large fox picture means there are very few mice and thus a small mouse picture, and vice-versa. But my ecosystem is not very ecosystem-like. Instead of continuously growing and shrinking in size, my ecosystem only "ticks" once. Anyone else having this problem? I'm not sure how to fix this...

Oh so sore...

Good afternoon fellow readers (mainly CSC104 students I'd assume :P). Man, it sucks being unfit and playing badminton after not playing for 3 years... My whole body is still sore from Friday's 4 hour session. I really have to start my Insanity workout again (and keep up/continue with it)! It sucks that my laptop's sound card doesn't work anymore; otherwise I could be doing it at home for reading week right now.

On a happier note, I almost got my first 100% in university with my CSC104 test! I was surprised the only spot I lost marks on was the programming part - especially when I said that it was super easy... Only lost 1.5 marks though so it's still okay. I'm sort of a techie person so I think I have an easier time grasping the concepts presented in class compared to others. For me, I can understand what a piece of code does without having to actually enter that code into Dr. Racket myself (at the moment at least...). It might be difficult for others though, so as a tip, I think it is still a good idea to run a certain code yourself just so you understand what values it consumes and produces.

A busy reading week lies ahead of me - an assignment due the week back and a test too! Gotta study study study! Ugh...

SNOW!!!

HOLY MOTHER OF SNOW; THERE'S SO MUCH! It hasn't stopped snowing since roughly 4pm yesterday and there's about 22cm +/- 3cm of snow on the ground now. The snow meant for Christmas has finally arrived! :D A decent way to end off my week of madness I'd say. Finished my three tests, and I have to say, I'm feeling pretty confident about all of them.  The only one where I'm afraid I won't do superbly well in is CSC104. Answers were posted right after the test and I think I did the questions correctly but can't quite remember... Overall it was an easy test - all of the programming questions were a piece of cake. Alright I'm going to go play in the snow now :D.