This would be a first week to leave a note of my progress in CSC104, and this week I learned about how to play with values in DrRacket program.
Concept was to express, transform, combine and decompose values (we used digital images this time) in DrRacket, and by professor's lectures and with his demonstrative online videos, I think I am confidant with the basics use of it.
I was rather worried about my performance since I had no knowledge ahead, and the class is very different than other ones that I'm currently enrolled. I realize that this is the fundamental for coming knowledge, yet it did help me with my motivation. I find the course inspiring since I always enjoyed getting to know what I'm capable of doing on computers.
This week was also a first week that I went to tutorial, and I found myself in a wrong room with many others. I hope that wont happen next week. Also, next week, if I could, I would try to keep myself more awake in the lectures, since I found myself little bit dizzy in a mornings. Now that many of my concerns regarding of courses are resolving, I should be able to manage myself to be more present in lectures.
There is no concern about this class that I have right now. If I were to be critical, I wish tutorial rooms were announced clearer.
Well, with that I should leave for this week. I hope my online journal satisfies the course's expectation.
Tony
This course is meant to be introductory, so don't be concerned about your lack of prior knowledge/experience. In fact, because Racket (a functional programming language) is so different from the most common languages that people learn (procedural languages like Java/c/python ... ), having prior knowledge with those other languages might actually hurt instead of helping.
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