SLOG 3 - CSC104 - COMPLETED DEC. 3.

Slog 3

            For all the new students that may read about my blog, I have some advice for you before you start the course. This course is all about using functions to produce on a screen that you may have in mind, it could be a cool video, a well patterned image or maybe you just want to play around with some coding.
            To design a function, do not just rush in and start typing. First you should plan out how your entire thing will look like and think about all the mini steps you will need to complete the function and arrange them in order. Order is very important in computer science, it may totally change the result of your desired final product.
            Second of all I want to talk about how to prepare for this course and get a well-deserved 4.0 GPA to this course. For weekly quizzes, going through the professor’s lectures notes and listening to recordings are very important. I’m taking this course right now with three different teachers. Sometimes the explanation of one teacher might be confusing so you can try to look at the lecture notes or recordings of the other two teacher. I have done this a couple of times and its really helpful. The teachers will always post quiz exercises a couple of days ahead of time and make sure you understand every question in the exercise. This will guarantee you will get a solid 3/3 on the weekly quiz.
            For the projects, there are two. Make sure you to work ahead of time. The TAs usually post them two weeks ahead of time and make sure you start right away! The project should be done in the order the list is given in.     
            For the term tests, the TAs post past midterms and they are very helpful. The questions are given in the same format, so if you understand the past midterms then you are good to go for your midterm. They usually post a couple of past test, so make sure you do them all to get a variety of questions done.
            The last thing I want to mention is, I find the TAs in this course are very diligent and have frequent office hours to help students out. You can ask them to advice you for almost any question that are related to the test, quiz and project. I went to the TAs office hour for project 1 and they solved a huge issue I was having.

            This course is very fun and there are challenging moments, but working hard and by passing those challenges makes me feel proud. I am really glad I took this course. And I hope you guys have fun and do well in the upcoming years.

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