December 2008
1 post
Last Test
I was actually hoping for the chance to draw an FSA. I just find state diagrams to be a very simple way to understand the automata. It was definitely what helped me most for the assignment question. Overall, I believe I preferred this part of the course. I see regular expressions and FSAs almost more like puzzles, and I think for future iterations of the course it might spread out better if it...
Dec 5th
November 2008
1 post
Week 9
Regular expressions have been conveniently overlapping with CSC207. I wish there were more overlap for the fact that it just makes the relevance of everything we’re doing seem more readily apparent. The attention to induction in the beginning makes sense in that it’s the tool we use for most of the course, but I think more co-ordination between the courses in the program would make for...
Nov 13th
October 2008
2 posts
D'oh
You could have recurring menu items in A1… ha. Ha… oh boy.
Oct 9th
I’ve definitely had better days. My kitten got into the peanut butter someone left out, which is bad in and of itself, but I’m quite allergic, and it was tracked into my room. I’ve had worse reactions,  but I feel like I’ve been through the ringer.
Oct 3rd
September 2008
2 posts
My Take On the FBT Example
Instead of looking at breaking the binary tree down into smaller trees of the same properties, I looked at the relationship between siblings. Every node aside from the root has exactly one sibling. Because of this we can assert that there are an even number of nodes with siblings. The even number of nodes plus the root which has no sibling results in a tree with an odd number of nodes for every...
Sep 22nd
Data Management Was Actually Useful
For the longest time, staring at the second question on the problem set, all I could think of was that n(n-1)/2 is the way to sum a series of numbers. I decided to take a break and ask my cat, Schroeder what he thought of it. Schroeder’s area of expertise seems more geared to making me forget about work altogether however. I came back to the problem this morning and thought about the pairs....
Sep 17th