Hello World!
This is the first entry of my SLOG. I’ll be using this space to keep track of my progress through the CSC165H1F 2014 course.
The main challenge I seem to be facing is I’m going to need a large bank of questions to practice on. Even if I understand the concepts, I have to be able to answer questions quickly and reliably in a test situation and the only way to get that kind of speed is through practice. If anyone knows of an online resource or even a textbook, please let me know!
I’m trying to constantly remind myself to work hard rather than rely on my intelligence. This is a common issue studied by Carol Dweck and you can find more information on it here and here.
What’s something that challenged or frustrated you this week?
I had trouble understanding vacuous truths. I’ll try to find some sample exercises to practice on.
I’ve been having trouble taking notes in class on my laptop. I found a quick way to insert the symbols in Word, though. Typing the hex unicode value and then pressing Alt+x converts the value into the symbol. A list of the symbols can be found at this link. You just need the last four-digit hex values and not the “&#x” portion.
Some common ones:
2208 – ∈ – element of
2282 – ⊂ – subset
2286 – ⊆ – subset of or equal to
21D2 – ⇒ – implication
00AC – ¬ – toggles truth/false value
2200 – ∀ – for all