That's All Folks !!!

Here we are, to the end of semester.. wow that went by wayy too quick.
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Pfffftttt who am I kidding, I can't wait for finals to be over and summer to start.

I feel like I should have some really significant advise to give people who might be taking this course in the future or even someone who's reading this right now in preparation for finals advise, but honestly all I can think is 'you learn from your mistakes'.
I don't think one can learn something completely based of someone else' experience neither is there some great advise that we as students are unaware of.
It all comes down to your natural ability to code and how much you practice.
Practice seems wayy to obvious an advise to give but I think its the best. Coding isn't like biology where naming the process is super important. We have to completely understand it's working, and only then can we actually use it. Now if you're thinking practicing is the same as memorising then you're wrong. When I mean practise, I don't mean, doing the same kind of problem for different objects. No. The entire process has to be different, only then can you know if you understand the concept completely and can use it for any given condition or problem.

I feel like I should talk about assignment 3 just so I have a mental closure of completing the slog for this course. Assignment 3 wasn't exactly easy per se, but it was easy compared to assignment 2. It also made things easier for people working in groups as we all could work on it separately without needing to constantly discuss ideas. I'm fairly certain my partners and I did well and like I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm hoping for a 100.

Looking back on this course, I have to say I found things more interesting than I found them difficult, or maybe they go hand in hand (at least for me! ). They more complex things got, the easier it was for me to focus completely on this course without neglecting it.
Certain 'hurdles' I had to cross can be summarized by one word, 'recursion'. But then again this entire course was mainly about it so I wouldn't want to call the entire course a hurdle.
The thing about recursion is, it's easy to get confused and that makes me lose my patience with it. So I guess the real hurdle was my impatience.
Another hurdle that I just realized I had to cross was time management. Being in 1st year, a lot of my other courses are for my breadth requirement and it's convenient to focus only on them or my CS course. But in the last few weeks, I have learnt time-management is one skill you are never too old to have.

So thats all people, hope everyone does great in A3 and finals.

I would like to thank Diane and will miss her, and her creative approach to lessons. I found them extremely fascinating and made bunking class a lot harder.
I would also like to thank all my friends in this course for keeping me sane and constantly motivating me (especially to do slogs! ) and helping me when I lost patience with recursion.

Can't say 'until next time..' so GOOD BYE !

PS - *tears of joy roll down my face as I move my cursor towards 'publish'.* YAY for everyone in this course, for surviving through the strike and once again good luck to all for finals !