CSC104

Hunter Atchison October 27th SLOG Since the beginning of the semester, CSC 104 has been one of my favourite courses. While the course content has increased in difficulty, I have been able to develop new study habits and strategies to help achieve my goals. One of those strategies I use when studying is creating my own problems or check-expect and making sure they run. What I enjoy most about Dr. Racket is that all the solutions are there for my use, and it offers guidance if you're incorrect or on the right track. The assignments and practice test that are provided as a study guide for quizzes and the midterm are extremely helpful. However, I was finding that I was not retaining the knowledge as well as I should be in preparation for the quizzes. This is when I came up with the strategy of creating my own practices problems. My strategy was to run each question on the practice assignment and observe the steps and results. I would then go back and create my own function for eac...

Hunter Atchison hunter.atchison@mail.utoronto.ca October 6th SLOG Computer Science is a subject that is constantly changing and expanding as society and technology advances. It's something I've always been interested in learning  and understanding better as it is integrated in my day-to-day life. Expanding my knowledge in computers could help me in my future career or personal use. Having only a basic comprehension of computers made me feel more comfortable in enrolling in CSC 104 rather than an advanced course.  Having no prior computer science experience, I wasn't sure what to expect. Although it is just the basic level, I assumed that it would still be complex and require thinking skills. I have faced challenges so far in this course, but have been able to overcome and progress with the material. So far I've found the different functions that you are able to create very interesting. As a class we are learning very basic functions that are quit...