Week 7

I'm still having trouble with Delta Epsilon proofs after tutorial this week, but I am continuing to try to do practice questions to get a hang of them. We started to learn about Big Oh and looking at the number of steps different sorting algorithms take. I think that the way we learned to count steps is fairly simple as I have quite a bit of programming experience and don't really find it difficult to determine how many times each line will run.

In lecture on Friday we did a problem about Penny Piles which I am going to work on writing a program to solve, as it interests me.

Week 6

This week we looked at proofs of limits which I found difficult to grasp. Even after reviewing the slides and looking some examples up I still didn't really understand what was going on. I understand the concept of being able to manipulate certain variables and not others but whenever I try to do a problem I encounter issues picking a value for delta. I will continue to try to work on the problems in the sample problems to try to understand better. There were also no tutorials this week so hopefully tutorial next week will help me to understand better.

Week 5

This week was the term test. I studied quite a lot for this test and I think I did alright. Some of the questions regarding proofs made me sort of scratch my head, but I think in the end I understood them. My only worry is whether or not my answers had sufficient proof, as I did was not exactly sure how much I needed to say to answer some questions. In tutorial we went over proof structures. When I looked at the tutorial sheet the weekend before tutorial I was thoroughly confused and did not really have a good idea of how to complete either of the questions. Once we went over them in tutorial I understood them (hopefully), although I feel like I definitely need more practice with these questions before I will be confident in my answers.

Week 4

We covered some more about the differences between the universal and existential quantifiers at the beginning of this week, and although this made sense I found it interesting to see exactly what can happen when wrong assumptions are made. In tutorial we went over some simple negations, proofs, and guarantees. At first the guarantees section did not really make much sense to me, but after seeing Gal go through every step I was able to grasp the concept a lot better. This week the first assignment was also due. I think that I did fairly well on this assignment, as I understood how to do all the questions. Any marks off would simply be for me making a mistake and not because I did not know how to do something. Hopefully this assignment will serve as a good indicator of my progress and whether or not I actually understand things fully.