Sunday, March 10, 2013
Week 8
Had a pretty good week in this course overall. I felt like chapter 3 is the chapter I have the most understanding about and the most motivation to work on. Most of the stuff we have been learning in this course did not interest me to be honest and I felt like it was not really applying to anything practical but proofs showed me something interesting you could do with proofs. The quiz in tutorial was very confusing because our TA showed us a way to count steps different from Professor Heap and most of the class was confused I think as well. Some unity over the teaching staff would be better, I will bring it up when studying the next test.
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Hi Alec, not sure how Danny counts steps, but I doubt it's different. We can go over that question again next tutorial to see how Danny does it.
Thanks :D
Notice (in the course notes and tutorial solution) that the definition of a "step" allows you to count any portion of the code that doesn't depend on the size of the problem as a "step".
The consequence is that you might count each operation (+, *, /, =) and keyword as a step, each line as a step, or even a block of lines a s a step --- whatever is convenient.
Thanks for the feedback. Getting a better understanding for what steps are.
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