Week 1: Still Half Asleep

Its been a long summer. Getting back into the swing of university life has been a rough process, but hopefully this upcoming week will be easier. But, I must say, I'm glad to be back. Summer got old fairly quickly: work, videogames, sleep, repeat. my mind needs more activity!

Unfortunatly CSC236 was my first class of the year and I had no idea what was going on. But I have hope, I did well in CSC165. I actually didn't know that this was going to be my first class; for some reason I was under the impression that Prof. Heap's class would be listed as CSC26_, so I expected it to be in the spring. It was a pleasant suprise, plus the textbook was only 25 dollars, so that helps my wallet.

The first few classes (aside from Monday) went well, a rough review of induction and some good example problems that initially stumped me. It seems like it will be an easy first couple weeks, I enjoy proofs by induction and the first problem set only took about 15 minutes to complete. Also, Prof. Heap's new tablet PC is an excellent teaching tool, since all of the notes that he writes up in class are posted online it means I have more time in class to simply listen and think about the problem presented (plus writing down a few personal notes and scratch work). That was one of the things that really bothered me last year, having to quickly type everything up as it was written on the board. That and the structured proof. By the end of last term I definitly wasn't a fan of the structured proof, but I will admit that in the beginning it helped a lot. Now that thats gone it'll be even easier. Well, aside from the fact that this class is inherently harder than CSC165. Oh well, can't win every battle.