3rd Week - Sept 26th

     This is the third school week and I have been taught of the topic of conjunction, disjunction, negation, and implication.

     Benefitting from the last two lectures, I spotted that I was able to write English sentences in symbols and this was what we learned during this week’s CSC165 class. Yes, it was kind of confusing at the beginning of this course because it was required to know the exact meaning of logical symbols such as ∀ (stands for ‘all’), ∃ ( stands for ‘some’), ^ (‘and’), and  ∨ (‘some’). I was quite unsure at the beginning of this week because I rarely used that symbols before, but it was getting better after I practiced.

     In my perspective, CSC165 has been focused on logic so far which means that all the questions set and exercises we did during tutorial sessions are still about Venn Diagram or converting sentences into symbols. For the quiz I attempted from last tutorial, I didn’t get the first question because it was quite tricky to tell whether an “O” (stands for ‘empty’) should be put into the common area of P and L. And for this week’s tutorial, a question about converting sentence into symbols was given.

     So far, I was quite happy about studying CSC165. Although it could be considered that I almost had no programming background at all, I was still glad to see the progress I have made so far.