Week 4: The First Week of Comp Sci Professor Heap Gave to Me!

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     Although I have some previous experience in the field of computer science on my own, 108 and 148 are my first real courses for the field of computer science. Luckily for me python is actually the language which I learned by myself. I am quite comfortable with the material which was displayed the first week in lectures. However the concept of recursion seems like it can give me some trouble since it seems like it can get quite complex quite fast. The first examples shown to us turtle seem quite intuitive and professor heap explained it quite efficient with much swagger. All jokes aside, I have never used the turtle methods before, and that's perhaps the only material in the first week which I am uncomfortable with since I haven't seen it before. I plan to look a bit more into the turtle class on my own so that I am more comfortable with the material which I have encountered.

    I actually really like the first assignment which was given to us. It's something which is quite interesting yet covers the topic which we have very well. I am quite interested in seeing what we have to come up with in the next few assignments since Heap said that the assignments in a way all builds on top of each other.

Week 3: Deja Vu

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     Writing on the topic of why geeks should write feels not politically correct because it carries the implication all those who are writing these slogs are geeks which is not necessarily true. Having been through the process of writing these slogs for 165 I am all to familiar with this process. Although I did not find the process to have much merit, I am open to the thought of it helping me. Perhaps I think a better guiding question is should we whether or not it is good to write a blog. During my past experience of writing a blog it felt like an arbitrary activity which I had no real interest in and only participated in because I was being graded on it. Something which I have grown to dislike over the past few years which is being forced to do things not out of general interest of doing them but being forced to do them. However, that's something which is probably inevitable since it's all part of growing up.