Final Impressions

I can finally relax a little bit and pull myself together to write this slog. In the last few classes we studied big Oh and I was very surprised because I just studied the same topic in CSC165 class. I think it will be better for me to reflect on the topic after I've reviewed it for the exam, so I decided to write the final blog after my 165 exam. In my opinion, writing the slogs are for our own benefit. I like to consistently reflect on myself, but maybe not weekly because I felt a little bit pushy during this final period.

Looking back at this course, I think it was harder than I thought. To me, the biggest different between 148 and 108 was that 108 studied a lot topics but basic and 148 studied few topics but much more deeper. I was very confusing at the beginning of the course, I wash only able to understand the slides, but all the code makes nonsense to me. I got a terrible mark on test 1 and I became depressed. Then assignment 2 came out, I didn't even want to look at it until my partner dragged me to go over our first assignment and carefully read the second one. It was interesting to me to work with friends especially for a CS assignment. It just makes me felt like a professional geek and also act like one. As I mentioned in my slogs before, there were one time where suddenly those nonsenses makes sense to me. I think slogs helped me to pull myself together, but practice and work with others are the key to success in the course. In week 8, 9, 10, I was focusing to caught up on the material and review for the test on week 9. I felt it's better to write my slogs after my test so that I can focus more on studying. I found the topics of linked list and binary search tree easier for me, although some of my friends found it to be more difficult. I like these two topics more because it's much more straight forward. When writing the code, finding the 'exit' of the recursion was interesting. The 'exit' is also  the key of the code for link list and binary search tree. I felt I did much better on test 2. The outcome was okay in average, but it was a huge progress for me compare with the first one. I wish I got a better mark in test 1 so that I won't worry about failing the course now. However, I will still do my best and be prepared for the upcoming exam.

Overall, 148 was a fun course and everything seems to make more sense to me. The most important topic in this course is still recursion and I found it rather interesting now. It seems like everything is related to recursion, it is the foundation or base. Overall, 148 was a fun course and everything seems to make more sense to me. I'm very confident and excited for the upcoming year, I would like to study more CS courses next year.