Note: This post covers Week 1 & 2.
My name is Theo and I'm a freshman taking CSC165 with Prof. Zhang. I'll be posting every week about my experience with the class: things I learned/enjoyed, topics that were interesting, particular difficulties with the material, etc. Feel free to comment on my posts to ask questions or provide your own reflections on the class. Since this is my first post I'll be discussing the first two weeks of class.
My name is Theo and I'm a freshman taking CSC165 with Prof. Zhang. I'll be posting every week about my experience with the class: things I learned/enjoyed, topics that were interesting, particular difficulties with the material, etc. Feel free to comment on my posts to ask questions or provide your own reflections on the class. Since this is my first post I'll be discussing the first two weeks of class.
The first class was an introduction to mathematical logic. It was interesting experiencing my first three-hour lecture (fortunately we have break every now and then). Prof. Zhang started a discussion on how to achieve the right balance between precision (ie: machine language) and ambiguity (ie: human languages). He then introduced mathematical quantifiers, which allowed us to segway to more complex topics in the second class such as negation, predicates and equivalence. It was a bit confusing at first but we went through an exhaustive set of examples and that made the material easier to understand. We also had our first lab this Thursday which was a good way to cement the concepts.
Looking forward to next class!
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