This second week of classes had a good feeling to it, my mind is no longer on vacation and my classes dont seem overly hard. I was glad that the 236 lectures stayed at the same pace and were 90% examples, seeing examples of how Induction/Complete Induction is done over and over hammers it in nicely. And also the problem set took me less time than I anticiplated - even though Prof. Heap informed everyone that they would not me "problem sets" in the sense that those of us who came from MAT137 were used to. The only problem I kept running into was whether or not I was explaining too much or too little in my justification, but that was solved relativtly painlessly through a quick visit during office hours (actually I think it wasn't during office hours, oops).
As I'm writing this I'm taking my break from working on Assignment #1. I just have to say: it's HARD. Not impossible, but hard nonetheless. I think I've figured out the pattren for the menu problem, but proving it inductively is a whole different ball game. I'm not worrying too much though, I'll just have to go to as many TA office hours as I can. At least I hope that will help.
In the mean time, working on problem set #2 will keep me productive without losing my sanity.
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Assignment 1 is meant to drive you to one of the office hours. Mission accomplished.
And it sounds as though the problem sets are pitched at the right level for you --- they reinforce examples you've already seen.
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