Slog Week 3:Why Geek Should Write

This is the first slog for csc148. I haven’t been writing slogs since csc165 ended. Last week was the first lab in csc148; computer lab is new for most people in this course since in csc108 they don’t have any tutorial or lab, and there is a quiz at the end of the lab. For the quiz in week 3’s lab, I was confused by the question that was being asked and hopes the question can be a little bit clearer.This week’s lecture was mainly about inheritance and exception, and mentioned recursion at the end. The first both things were fairly easy to understand. Inheritance is a technique in building subclass, and for exception, it is the thing that we see every time when coding, but this time we can define our own errors. The recursion that was mentioned seems to be interesting and useful, but could be very complicated if implementing it in a difficult way?

The first assignment was posted and I tried to get started, but it got so many words in the description and too much information to absorb in a time. I looked at it for couple times and still didn’t know what should I do. Though I am still somewhat confused about the assignment, I have to get started since it is due next week. I decided to start the subtract square part first because I understand what to do with that part better.

Why Geek Should Write

From the experience from csc165, I can tell that writing slog every week helps students to review course material and find out anything they missed or didn’t understand. When we realize there are things that we still confuse about, it is always helpful to visit peers’ slog. From past experience, there will be links posted on course website and from there, we can find other students’ slogs; some with great explanations on materials from class and reading those slogs helps understand course content or if we find any errors in their writing, we can leave a comment to point out their mistakes. Therefore, writing slogs certainly helps understand course materials.

On the other hand, writing is a way to express ideas and communicate with others. As a student in this course, we can communicate with other students, instructor and TAs by writing a slog. Our blogs are places that we can talk about our thoughts on everything in this course. Also, after writing down our experience of each week, we can look back at the end and it will help us realize the things we gain or understand the shortcomings we have and think of a way to change it, which helps perfect ourselves not only in the aspect of computer science but in everyday ‘s life.