CSC165 Slog week 7

This week’s lecture is a little bit confusing for me. I don’t fully understand the content. Some proofs I found a way to prove it; it might be wrong because it’s different from the solution, but I don’t know why, and I just did not think in that way. Sometimes I try to do proof, but my answer is always different from the solution, and I don’t understand why I am wrong. Maybe that’s because I haven’t done a lot of proof and don’t know the how to do it in the right way and I don’t fully understand all the concepts so can’t apply them. In Friday’s lecture, the penny piles was also a little confusing, I didn’t really understand the purpose of doing it, and there were some open questions that couldn’t be solved. On the other hand, the new assignment that was just posted seems to be very hard, I didn’t understand many of the questions when I took a look at it. Also, when I did the first assignment, I felt like I spent lots of time on finding and typing symbols in computer; so I hope maybe we could change another way to write assignment. And just found out that the due date is around the CSC165 test and I got another test and assignment due in those couple days, so I need to start the assignment early, and this makes me feel lots of pressure. And proof is hard!

Also, I found out that verifying proof is the hardest thing to do since it really needs students to fully understand the whole statement rather than just doing algebra to prove a statement without thinking deeply.

When I went on other students' slog, I found a person who also has the same view as me.
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