Sunday, November 25, 2012

The second term test result

Last Wednesday, I got the second term test back at the end of the lecture.
The marks is a little bit lower than I expected :(
I did okay on both part 2 and part 3, but I got screwed up on the part 1 which is about computer history.
What  I figure out is that the part one maybe a little bit challenging for students like me whose first language is not English.
Anyway, It's very impressive to know that we can bring a "cheat sheet" to the final exam.
When I went throughout the test questions, actually I found that part2 and part3 are not that difficult. The part2 is really similar to the quizzes I did in the lecture, and part3 is like a conclusion about the project we did before the test. However, the part1 is a nightmare since I never practiced before, just memorizing some histories according to the slides. 

For the final exam, I will study really hard about the computer history by organizing the notes and going through the slides very carefully. Hopefully I will do a better job on the final exam. 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

My First CS Project

Honestly, I spent almost a week on the first project. After I submitted last friday, I felt a big relief.Generally speaking, the project was long and complicated than I expected.

Before I did the project, I was still confused about writing the (check-expect) stuff, even though I watched the "check-expect" video many times. But not, after doing the project, I got a clear idea about writing the (check-expect) because I practiced writing the "check-time" many times in the project. Hoever, I still got one question.
Im not quite sure about how to write the "check-expect" about this one.


; stop? : clocktime -> boolean
; Is c-stop/go a stop sign:
; !!! create two (check-expect ...) expressions for stop;
; insert them before the definition




(define (stop? c) (equal? (clocktime-stop/go c) STOP))

I tried many times but it still did not work  :(



Anyway, this project helped me a lot getting prepared the term-test on Wednesday. 
Wish me good luck on the test