CSC104 SLog

I prepare for the quizzes by reviewing the notes I've made in class, and doing the weekly practices. For the midterm, I did the same thing, including practicing with the past midterms. So far this strategy is effective, as I am quite satisfied with my midterm and quiz marks. I honestly think this course is more practical than conceptual- the more practice problems you do, the better you will understand. There were a couple of images that I've made, which I found really cool. One of them is the Sierpinski triangle, I just really love the recursive element. Continuing with the recursive theme, I messed around with some other expressions, and managed to get some pretty neat recursive images. So in this example, pretty simple yet cool use of recursion. I got this cloning function which also scales the image down at each interval (kind of gives it the illusion of distance...).  Anyways, so far nothing in the course felt too intimidating, although recursion was a bit confu...

I chose CSC104 because of a few reasons. Personally, I've always wanted to take a computer course- I had some experience with programming back in high school, so I've decided to put those years into use. Plus, I find programming to be very fun! It's like an open canvas, but instead I can code for anything I want. Practically, I believe that understanding computational thinking is very important in today's world, where technology and computers are so prevalent. It should be part of the standard curriculum at this point. I've always imagined programming to be very difficult, but then again, what isn't? When I started my programming class in high school, we used java. That's when I realized that programming has a lot of trials and errors, I didn't know anything at the time, and so I just had to learn from my errors and teacher. Eventually, I got the hang of it, and programming quickly turned into a small hobby, like painting. So far this course is a refre...