This is my last blog entry for CSC148, and I'm surprised how fast this term went by. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the slog writing experience a lot more than I expected. It served as a review session for me every week to go through the materials taught in class, and then to deeply reflect and summarize them. The idea of keeping an updated slog is definitely something I will consider for my future classes, because it's great for keeping track of course concepts, and it also encourages me to think deeply the reason why we learn them.
For me when it comes to writing, I want there to be a true purpose. I also wish to imprint and open up different ideas and perspectives to whoever is reading them, let it be my fellow classmates or other readers. Otherwise, it would just appear like I was trying to get the slogs over with, and it would be quite boring to read. I like to take my time with these things, so that I can develop a clearer purpose whenever I write an entry for slogs, and in the end, I actually found myself looking up more resources to grasp other ways and perspectives to understand a problem or concept. Some of these concepts include recursion, trees, and listed list data structures. I especially had a hard time understanding and correctly implementing recursive functions, because a different and difficult concept, but it is quite powerful. What helped me was just to assume the function itself works then go ahead and implement the function body. The labs provided great practices and it was unfortunate we lost 4 labs due to the TA strike.
Overall, I enjoyed CSC148 and the challenges that arose on assignments and class materials, I have definitely learned a lot. I wish everyone the best of luck on their finals!
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