Week 9
So, A2 marks are out and I'm a little disappointed (not the kind of heart wrenching disappointment I feel when Starbucks has no more soy milk or when Giant Tiger runs out of Arizona's ice tea, but disappointment nonetheless). I did really good on it and I certainly don't want my mark lowered, but it's kinda frustrating when I get 15% higher on A2 than on A1 considering I found A2 infinitely harder and put far less effort into it.
I finished A1 almost a week before the due date and worked on it consistently from the time it was posted to when I finally finished and then reviewed it again the day it was due.
A2 I did mostly late at night on little sleep and with barely any nourishment. I left it to the last minute and after I submitted it all I could think of was what I could have done better.
I was expecting to do -very- poorly on A2 because of my poor work habits and instead did better than the assignment I worked diligently and responsibly on.
While its a relief to know not only do I have a better shot at a 4.0 in this class now, I'm actually closer to achieving it, it's kinda frustrating when I'm seemingly rewarded for having bad work habits.
Ah well, I'm sure when I get my math mark back, I'll be forced to learn my lesson (that's right, I passed MAT137 with a mediocre but still above average mark and I still do not know how to integrate).
Anyway, week 9 is a bit of an abrupt change of direction, but I think studying language is more interesting than calculating time complexity or proving program correctness (maybe it's because I'm a horrible programmer, but there is nothing that some subpar test cases and a lot of print statements can't do).
It seems like 207 and this course don't match up as well as they should. We're starting to work with regular expressions and have an assignment involving it due on Monday (that was supposed to be due on Friday) and we've barely done anything on it in either course. Maybe if we started this unit a bit earlier we'd be slightly better prepared but I guess that would result in the material being too disjointed and since 207 and 236 aren't coreqs there shouldn't be a need to coordinate material...
Ah well, it's time to read ahead and learn on my own instead of being spoonfed.
I finished A1 almost a week before the due date and worked on it consistently from the time it was posted to when I finally finished and then reviewed it again the day it was due.
A2 I did mostly late at night on little sleep and with barely any nourishment. I left it to the last minute and after I submitted it all I could think of was what I could have done better.
I was expecting to do -very- poorly on A2 because of my poor work habits and instead did better than the assignment I worked diligently and responsibly on.
While its a relief to know not only do I have a better shot at a 4.0 in this class now, I'm actually closer to achieving it, it's kinda frustrating when I'm seemingly rewarded for having bad work habits.
Ah well, I'm sure when I get my math mark back, I'll be forced to learn my lesson (that's right, I passed MAT137 with a mediocre but still above average mark and I still do not know how to integrate).
Anyway, week 9 is a bit of an abrupt change of direction, but I think studying language is more interesting than calculating time complexity or proving program correctness (maybe it's because I'm a horrible programmer, but there is nothing that some subpar test cases and a lot of print statements can't do).
It seems like 207 and this course don't match up as well as they should. We're starting to work with regular expressions and have an assignment involving it due on Monday (that was supposed to be due on Friday) and we've barely done anything on it in either course. Maybe if we started this unit a bit earlier we'd be slightly better prepared but I guess that would result in the material being too disjointed and since 207 and 236 aren't coreqs there shouldn't be a need to coordinate material...
Ah well, it's time to read ahead and learn on my own instead of being spoonfed.
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11:37 AM
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