Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Last quiz! end of class!

Last quiz is easy, i have to say TA is really patient and gave sufficient help! Tomorrow is the last day of school, after that it's just self review and test. Wish everyone gets good mark on finals!

Eliminating states

When i re-read the course slide of eliminating state "OO" as showed above, i just directly jumped to the second diagram and i was thinking, from state "OE" to itself, could also be 11, right? why there's only 00 over there?

Then i compared it with the first diagram, figured out it should based on the state which is eliminated, in this case state "OO" is eliminated, from state "OE" to state "OO" is 0 and also 0 in opposite way, too. That's why it is 00 but not (00+11).

Week #10 Course are connected!

More and more have i found out that courses hase intersection! For example, as mentioned, mathematical induction is in MAT137.

This week, Regular Expression is what we learned last week in CSC207, thought in different notation, they are like each other. And machine, is like finite state machine we learned in CSC258, but machines in CSC236 have a "start" arrow point to a state, and have double circle at the "end state".

That's cool because when you learn something and use it in another course, it can help you learn it better and make it less boring!

2 tests

The first test was easy, but i got a low mark, it was all detail stuffs, 1' here, 2' there, some of them i just don't understand why i lose mark, i compared my solution to my friend's, it's just like assignment 2, lack of cases, skipping steps, kinda things. Science when can i stop making that kinds of mistakes?!

Test 2 is also not difficult, but i just forgot how to do the second question, hope i don't get a low low low low mark on that. But that shows that i still have lots more to work on! Hope i will clearly understand everything before final test!

Assignment 2 result

When i did assignment2, i thought it's not that hard, instead, i thought it was easy and i did well. However, i only got 50% !

First i was thinking is that because i submmit it once with only one question and they just got that copy? 1 over 2 questions correct gets 50%, sounds fair. But when i check it on markus, the truth is not what i expected, they got 2 of my answers, then how come i just got 50%? i read the feedback, foundout where i made mistake. I only considered one situation, throwing the rest away, and has gap between prooves. Sometimes i think some steps are "easy", "obvious", i just skip them, which cause the bloody result. DON'T SKIP ANY STEP!

Week #6

I fall asleep for about 10 minutes in class, and i just couldn't follow the rest of class, what's Master Theorem? what's a, b, and d? So i went back to textbook again, it's really useful to read textbook if you don't understand a definition.

By the way, unwinding is interesting, lol. Repeat the formula again and again, and find pattern.

It's already half of the semester!

Assignment 1 and week #5

Assignment 1 is easy, just simple induction, complete induction ( which i know how to do now!).

There's no challenge because as mentiened, i learned mathematical induction from MAT137, and complete induction is no longer challenge for me.

We learned a bit of time complexity when taking CSC165, "big O" is my weekest part in CSC165, so again, i can follow the steps but i couldn't write it by my own. i have to read the textbook to get more practice, because there's goint to be a medterm this week!!!!!