Week of Nov 25

Early this week I took another look at the code I was working on for fractal.rkt and I realized where I was having trouble. It was really silly; I was missing a set of parentheses that was throwing it off. I fixed these and the program seems to be working properly even though I still don't understand what the value for param-depth is referring to. 

We had our last lecture today, so we have officially covered all of the material that will be on the final exam. I am still unsure as to whether it is a cumulative exam or if it only covers what we have learned since our last term test.

Week of Nov 18

This week the Project #2 handout was posted. When I opened the handout I found the links for downloading the programs were not working. I wasn't sure if it was because the programs were not ready to be downloaded or if they were not working properly. So, I emailed Danny to make him aware that they may not be working. He tried to fix it a couple of times and I tried logging-in to the CDF website and also downloading using a different browser, but nothing seemed to be working. But eventually, a couple of days later, another updated handout was posted as well as another set of links on the course website that were working.
Towards the end of the week I started working on the project. I was able to make fx.rkt work but there was something wrong with some of the code I wrote for fractal.rkt. I tried to figure it out for a little while but decided it would be best to let it sit and attempt it again later.

Week of Nov 11

This week In CSC104 we had our second midterm. Although I felt comfortable with the material I was really sick. While taking the test I was so congested I could not read or think straight. For one of the short answer questions I wrote an answer (in pen), read over the question again and changed my mind about it. So I crossed out the first answer and re-wrote my response (also in pen). Later I looked back at the question once again and decided that my first answer was the right one. I tried to use some arrows and notes to indicate the crossed out answer was the one that I wanted. I apologize to the TA that has to mark this incoherent mess. I hope I will not be sick like this for the final exam.

Week of November 4

Since the last post, my partner and I worked on and completed Project 1. There were some difficulties we ran into. Because the functions, such as "append", will only accept certain kinds of inputs. The function, "append", will only to append 2 lists together; it will not combine two things that are unlike. This was a problem when trying to append only one number to the end of a list to define the function "left-cycle"; Dr. Racket saw that the single integer long list as a number not a list and therefor did not want to combine it with a list. This forced us to be cleaver and figure out a way to make the 2 inputs of the same kind. Although this was frustrating, it was satisfying when we were finally able to make the animation work after all the work we put into it.

We also had a lecture about operating systems. The explanation about Von Neumann was a bit confusing. I am not sure it f it was difficult to understand or if I just needed more sleep. I am planning to read the extended lecture notes about it this weekend in preparation for the mid term.

Week of Oct 28

Over the past week in CSC104 there have been a lot of assignments due. Although the assignments aren't difficult I am have a feeling I am going to forget one.
The last week as been about transforming the pixels and their colors to alter an image. It doesn't seem too hard yet, but I am sure it will get more complex.
This week, our first project is due on friday. I plan on working on this on wednesday with my partner.

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