So we're almost there, I can feel the tension building up, and the caffeinated spirits seem to be on an all time high.
The best part about slogs is that we can not only see ourselves growing in understanding through the semester but also our friends and classmates. I can definitely look back on this semester and CSC148 and say I've made some really good friends out of it and learnt something interesting.
Keeping the title in mind, I'd like to revisit my post "More Recursion !" (it can be found here, http://mysuperslog148.blogspot.ca/2015/03/more-recursion.html ). You'd think I'd want to go back to the very beginning of semester or maybe even the beginning of the topic recursion, however I'd like to visit this particular post because while in my original recursion related post I only explained the theory behind it, here I gave an example. Now the thing about recursion is, the deeper you go, the more complex it can get, and sometimes its a simple factorial recursion code that you need to bring you back to the basics. Its easy to get deep into recursion and forget what its supposed to do or where it returns what. Though I try to keep in mind the "keep it simple" advise Diane gave us, it's still easy to forget when I'm knee deep in something like MiniMax. (ugh ugh ugh)
Since I mentioned making friends this semester, let's see what some of them have to say ..
Cindy Quach ( my assignment partner for the whole semester ) has an interesting approach towards coding. Putting it simply, she needs good sleep and good food and bam! she's good to go. She is really fun to work with because she gets really motivated and determined to finish things off quickly.
One of her posts ( http://csc148x.blogspot.ca/2015/03/recursion.html ) shows her approach quite nicely. She believes in understanding the concepts extremely clearly and reading and analyzing each line. Here, she uses a simple example to explain recursion very accurately.
Syeda Sidra Tul-Muntah is another friend I've made through our common lab. She and I share a similar approach to understanding coding. Her slogs are always up to date and quite detailed. You can check them out at http://slogsbysidra.blogspot.ca/ .
So basically everyone seems to have learnt from each others' point of views, and we all seem to agree on how much we have loved this course.
Until next time.. !
PS- That title though .. I hope people know the reference.
PPS - Really random but all I can think of right now is the song from High School Musical 2.. summer..summer ..summer..
Danny has told me numerous times to keep it "simple"; I always thought he meant use smaller examples to test out my code. I'm still not sure what he means, because when I use recursion, I like to deconstruct everything, and make everything distinct. It's interesting how vague CSC148 is taught; I looked through previous CSC148 websites, and they seem quite similar. They sort of leaves us to figure stuff out. I guess that makes some sort of sense...
ReplyDeleteDanny has told me numerous times to keep it "simple"; I always thought he meant use smaller examples to test out my code. I'm still not sure what he means, because when I use recursion, I like to deconstruct everything, and make everything distinct. It's interesting how vague CSC148 is taught; I looked through previous CSC148 websites, and they seem quite similar. They sort of leaves us to figure stuff out. I guess that makes some sort of sense...
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