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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Preparing for the exams

Its already December 1st. It's the end of the first semester which means it's the time for final exams.
For CSC104, having done all the quizzes, assignments,and tests, I know which parts I understand quite well and which sections I struggle with.
Overall, I did fairly well on the quizzes throughout the semester, and therefore, I think I am comfortable with DrRacket now.
Where I struggled in this course was the first sections of the term tests where there are definitions I had to know from the lecture notes and the extra notes posted on our website.
I think if I spend enough time studying the notes thoroughly, I can manage to do better on that part.
Here are few ways how I will prepare for the final exam:
1) Lecture notes and extra notes posted on the site.
  • Spend a lot of time reading over all the materials carefully. If I don't spend enough time here, I will not know what to write during the exam.
  • make my own study notes. I think it's a good way to memorize the terms in this course because there are handful of them.
2) DrRacket
  • look through all the links posted on the website
  • understand how check-expect and definitions work.
  • know the definitions parts as well as interactions parts.
3) Managing myself
  • start studying early so I have enough time to go over and understand all the materials
  • Get a good sleep the night before so I will be able to concentrate during the exam
  • Eat well before the exam.
Good luck to myself and everyone else with their exams!!


Project #2

I have finished my project #2 couple hours ago and I thought it went pretty well unlike the first project.
I found that the project #1 was quite hard and I received the mark which was below an average. I was a little disappointed that I could not manage myself to spend more time on the assignment.
Nevertheless, I found that the project #2 was far easier and I think I solved all the necessary parts that I had to solve which I was not able to do for the project #1.
Hopefully my mark for project #2 is a lot better than the first one.