Reading Break

    Before the reading break, I got my midterm back and I was satisfied with my marks. I was actually kind of surprised for the high mark I received. Anyways, Dr.Racket is still fun to play with. I've been playing around with Aggregates the past couple days and it was quite interesting. I wish that we can do more advanced Dr.Racket coding so we can make like an app or program or something like that.

    Another thing that I have been working on is the wikipedia project. I have selected 2-3 articles that I like to edit and have been reading over the instruction on how to do so. I'm not sure if I can do this, but can somebody tell me if I am able to edit 2 wikipedia articles? Because each one of the article I selected is kind of short and the editing process isn't going to be very long, so I am thinking I should do 2 wikipedia articles to compensate for the short length of each articles. Overall, I will be spending roughly 4 hours of work in the final part of this project and I really do hope that no one edits my articles before I start to work on them.

Midterm 1

    Finally, the first midterm was taken care of!

    The test came a little more difficult than I expected it to be. The first part tested our knowledge about computing machine. However, what was asked was not in the note so I couldn't give a standard answer. The only thing I recalled reading that was relevant was why transistors were better than vacuum tubes. I hope that the TA marking my test will be kind enough to give me part marks for my answer. :(

    The Dr.Racket part was a fair game because the format of the question was very similar to old test. 

    I hope I can do better on my second midterm and maybe a little more studying may help me. 

Getting the hang of Dr.Racket

     After using Dr.Racket for a couple weeks, I'm confident that I can move into more in-depth programming, which we did cover in class. Just a lecture from today, we learned how to use the built in function "big-bang" to create animation. In the end, we used it to build an animation that is similar to the ticking of a clock.
     However, there is something annoying about my Dr.Racket. It keeps on crashing while I am coding my big-bang function. I am pretty sure my coding is correct but Dr.Racket just won't accept it. It kind of disappointed me a little but I figured I can always save my work before running it.
     So far, in term of quiz, I have been doing pretty good as they are quite straight forward if you do the tutorial exercise ahead of time. As the test is coming up, I am not too worry about the programming part but more so on the history of computing machine. There aren't many notes in detail explaining different machines in different eras. I just hope that Prof.Heap will post the past tests ASAP so I can get a feel of what the test is going to be like and prepare while I can.