Week 3

I enjoyed this week's lecture. After reviewing terms and definitions of logical notation, I have a better grasp of understanding the sentences and statements described in lecture, tutorial and the assignment. This week's lecture on negation was fairly easy to grasp and interesting. The tutorial was also good as good questions were raised and the quiz simple.

I have been working through the assignment and some of the questions were challenging, particularly questions 2 and 5. There's not too many examples I can review on to make sure I fully have the correct answer though I have a fairly good idea of my translations. Hopefully I can get a better grasp on the assignment details and do well.

Week 1 and Week 2

When I first entered the lecture hall for CSC165, I wasn't sure what to exactly to expect. I imagined that it wasn't simply math nor programming as those have courses of their own. After getting through some slides and the syllabus, the Jackie Chan image used by professor Zhang was apt as I was thoroughly confused by the symbols used for computer science mathematical reasoning. Many symbols and their uses were foreign to me and I realized that it would take some getting used to. However, I believe that I can and will get the hang of the symbols and how to use them properly.

As the second week rolled around, I was still finding some difficulty following the logic and expressions used. The main difficulty I had was attempting to recreate expressions on my own. I had memorized most of the symbols and what they meant but creating the expression from scratch from a sentence or statement was difficult as they didn't seem to adhere to a formula but were rather fluid. The tutorial assignment wasn't too bad to work on. It took a few minutes but I could follow along with the answers. It takes me a bit of time to hone in on what sentences and statements demand but I will continue to work on it through study and practice.