December 6th SLOG update
Recently I took the second term test, and improved from the first term test. In addition I recently submitted a project regarding the spread of an infection as well, although I couldn't find the time to finish the last few lines of code with other term tests lurking around the corner.
Now that the second term test is completed, all that is left is for me to take the final, I hope that I will do well, and I hope that the study tools I have chosen, reviewing the weekly exercises and looking at older exams. It's my hope that these will guide me in the right direction as to what sorts of questions and ideas I should be reinforcing.
One of the things I found hard initially was how to define a function in CSC104 and have it accept certain inputs, fortunately, after getting some help with the second project I was able to understand how to do this.
Having taken the course, looking back, the advice I would give to people who are going to take this course would be the following:
Always complete/read the weekly excercises and play around with the code a little to see what affect each variable has on the output. Understanding what is being done in the weekly exercises is the key to doing well on the weekly quizzes.
In addition, some advice on setting up funcutions would be as follows, understand what variables you need and how they will affect your output, plan what you want your function to do before you start writing it.
I have high hopes that I can finish the course strongly and utilize the skills I've learned into other programming languages and hopefully carve out a path of computer science courses for me to take in the future. Even though I already know some python and visual basic I think its important that I build the stepping stones for a successful path in computer science.
Now that the second term test is completed, all that is left is for me to take the final, I hope that I will do well, and I hope that the study tools I have chosen, reviewing the weekly exercises and looking at older exams. It's my hope that these will guide me in the right direction as to what sorts of questions and ideas I should be reinforcing.
One of the things I found hard initially was how to define a function in CSC104 and have it accept certain inputs, fortunately, after getting some help with the second project I was able to understand how to do this.
Having taken the course, looking back, the advice I would give to people who are going to take this course would be the following:
Always complete/read the weekly excercises and play around with the code a little to see what affect each variable has on the output. Understanding what is being done in the weekly exercises is the key to doing well on the weekly quizzes.
In addition, some advice on setting up funcutions would be as follows, understand what variables you need and how they will affect your output, plan what you want your function to do before you start writing it.
I have high hopes that I can finish the course strongly and utilize the skills I've learned into other programming languages and hopefully carve out a path of computer science courses for me to take in the future. Even though I already know some python and visual basic I think its important that I build the stepping stones for a successful path in computer science.
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