Sorry this sLOG post is a bit late, I was working on Assignment 1 for CSC148 for all of Friday and only just got around to doing this. I'm going to focus more on the first test this Wednesday than I am on the lectures for the week in this post, so here goes.
This was my first testing experience at University and the first thing I noticed - it's a big room. In High School the biggest test of the year was written in the Gym and that room is still smaller (floor area, not volume) than the Exam Centre writing room. The test itself was remarkably simple; I had expected to be using de Morgan's law or other laws of con/disjunction and I had written a ton of them down, but we only did stuff from around week 1-2 with translating between symbol and english. As I posted in week 1, I have a very effective strategy for that so I got a lot of good use out of it on the test (you can look at my test and see very clearly that I used it).
The only question I really had trouble with was the last question, which I tried a whole bunch of random solutions to, going about it through trial and error. However I soon realized that wasn't working and I switched methods. Instead I rewrote the statements that we were trying to verify/falsify from statements involving a lot of ands and ors into statements involving implication. That way, when I added a number to set D, I had a bunch of easy implications telling me what to do in order to make one statement true and the other false.
I hope that I did well on this test - I definitely feel that I did - and I look forward to the second half of the course!
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