I decided to revisit my first blog for CSC148 Why Geeks Should Write. For the purpose of not only to make comments on my earlier self, but to also reflect on my entire slog writing experience. When we first received the slog assignment, I came to realize how much our professor wants us to realize the importance of writing that he decided to gave us such topic. Through all these entries we have done in the past 3 months, I think I am quite convinced that these slogs does help improve my performance in this class. When I wrote the first blog, I was a lot more focused on how writing relates to coding itself in a way that we should write out the solution or algorithm of a problem into English then translate it into code. I did not however, relate writing to the slog itself.
I still agree with my views from 3 months ago because writing is a good way to sort a problem, but I would like to enrich these views and open a new perspective. In the beginning of the term, we were required to hand in a form that records our opinion on the helpfulness, interestingness, and many others aspects of writing a slog. I am pretty sure most people, including myself disliked the idea of keeping an updated blog every week. It sounded tedious and it didn't seem like it served much purposes in our learning of computer science. But in the end, I turned out to really like slogs. These slogs did not just help me improve the ability to communicate and to break down a problem into words, it served as a session for me every week to review the material that was covered in class then to deeply reflect upon it. The slog had me spending even more time researching for other materials online to better understand the concepts. I actually found myself enjoying this process of learning other approaches to the topics learned in class. After all, I am glad I kept up with slogs because it definitely served a greater purpose than what I was expecting.
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