Second Week

What a week, grappling with the assignment was a long endeavour. I expected it to be difficult but in a different sense. I found it difficult in the context of how hard it was to be 100% sure an answer was correct. Sometimes interpreting a question one way would make you think of an answer and then the next minute you read it again and it makes you think of a completely different possibility. Many moments feeling stumped and taking a break to clear my mind. I'm looking at you question 3, assignment 1.

Thought after completing the assignment I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the ideas and concepts being taught in the course. Though I still find it difficult in the sense that it's hard to know when I'm right or wrong. It might sound right to me and then it turns out it meant something very similar but different.

Though I'm glad that I'm finally grasping all the symbols and understanding the concepts of negation, contrapositive, and converse. It took me a while to grasp how they worked and how contrapositive had the same meaning as the original statement. I found it really hard to accept the idea of contrapositive, the concept that something that sounded so different from the original could mean the exact same thing. I guess this course just takes some warming up to. 

The Beginning

I wasn't really sure what to expect for this class especially with the title of Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science. After the first lecture I was even more confused, mostly when Professor Heap was mentioning that we were here to communicate with precision but not to much precision, and that we would have to adjust the amount of precision to be on par with our peers. I'm assuming this will have more to do with proofs, which I'm also not to familiar with but hopefully will grasp in a good amount of time.

The material we are covering is pretty new to me and I'm finding it somewhat like learning a new language, there are a large chunk of symbols that I'm not to familiar with and knowingly I'll have to cover many to be able to grasp the ideas being taught in class. Though even with the unfamiliarity with the symbols I can understand the message within the lectures about subsets, and proving and disproving existence.

So far this course seems like it will be challenging, hopefully in a good way.

Blogging is pretty new to me so I'm still figuring out a good way to flow through ideas. Hopefully this isn't to broken up.