Test 3/End of Semester

So today was the last test. I think it went fairly well despite a rocky start (Q1 typos) and a lack of studying.

My answer to Q2 was fairly horrible but Q1 and Q3 were fine so we'll see if it evens out.

Overall, I think the course has been pretty good.

The content was pretty interesting and it was a good combination of older stuff (induction) and newer stuff (languages).

I liked the format of the course in that there was something almost every week (and I was forced to stay up to date) and assignments/problem sets were usually posted weeks before they were due.

My only complaint is the Monday deadlines for the assignments. If they were due on Friday we'd have more time between the preceding problem set and the assignment (since the assignments are time consuming). While we would have less time between the assignment and test, we'd still have a week and most people probably don't spend as much time studying for the tests as they do working on the assignment (since at least I find the assignments are good preparation for the tests anyway). And the people who do start studying ridiculously early also probably start the assignments ridiculously early and can have them done by Monday and start studying as early as usual.

Oh, I also did not enjoy 10am class. I complained last year about 11am class and how it was far too early and I still feel the same. 10am is brutal. Classes should not start before 2pm. Anything else is far too early.

My list of things I should have done is:

1. Go to lecture. Danny's explanations are generally far better than the text so it saves time not having to learn by myself out of the text (not that the text is particularly bad -- it's just long and tedious).
2. If I sleep through lecture, go to evening lecture.
3. Take advantage of office hours.
4. Work ahead (even just working on that ternary trees question after A1 was due would have helped immensely).
5. Study for tests (at least for a few hours).

Ah well, there's always next semester.