The second last class

I still can't believe that the course is ending soon, I still hope I can learn more from this course.Happy but sad.

We learned something really interesting this week, especially the Drracket part.

For example:

; flatten : list -> list
(define (flatten L)
(cond
[(cons? L) (apply append (map flatten L))]
[else (list L)]))

I found this was extremely difficult at first, and I had no idea about it. However, after a lot of practice, by doing the question steps by steps, I finally got the question.

I was also pretty happy about getting all quiz answers right. Hope I can do good on this course.

what's something you enjoyed this week in class? (catch up for last week since write the wrong topic)

Internet! Thanks to the internet, I gotta play this wonderful game.

LOL!

In this week's class,  we talked about the Internet. I think internet is what the world so great.It provides us information,entertainment and new ways to communication.

For example, we can find resources for our writing report,we can play game and watch youtube videos and we can talk to people through Facebook and Skype.

We also learned three different models: 

Token ring

bus configuration 

                                           and star configuration

I personally like the bus configurations, because it is the basic configuration about internet.

Questions and concerns so far in this course.

In this course, I think the course materials are generally not very hard to understand. After all, this is a intro course to computer science.

First general question is how to design a function or program. Usually, I know the result of act certain definition in drracket, but it is very frustrating to write a program with certain purpose. To conquer this, I will practice more computer programming on my laptop and read more programs.

Second question is the history of the computer. Again, with the aid sheet, it is not a problem to remember all the history. However, it is still hard to write the answer to the intuitive question about the history. To solve this, I decided to memorize the history and go beyond, think through it.

I hope everyone can have a good mark on this course.

How did the test go?

This week, I had my second term test, which was okay.

I found that the first part which refers to history are generally harder than the second part which testing the drracket skills.

I am pretty confident about the second part, but for the first part, I am not sure about it.

Good luck to me, and good luck to anyone. ;)

how does this week course material relate to other course?

In class, we talked about the revolution about the labour market along with the revolution in computer field. I think it is very closed to what I learned in Intro to Management class. 

The component of the labour market has been changed drastically, the young generation are generally looking for jobs that works 40 hours per week, instead of more hours work, even though the work with more hours usually earn more.

However, the reduction in work hours led to a higher productivity. Because that people are more efficient nowadays then before. Which matches the point of my Management course.

Without computer, I might work for 10 hours and finish my daily plan. Yet, with the computer, I can finish those work in 5 hours and do some extra work in 3 hours and if necessary to work for 10 hours and I will definitely chill for two more hours since the plan has been done.

Therefore, it is understandable the work hour has been reduced to 8 hours. And it is a really good complement to my management course.

OMG - best NBA player

Kevin Love rules!

The NBA today named Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love as its Western Conference Player of the Week for games played October 29 – November 3. Love becomes the sixth different Wolves player in club history to be named Player of the Week, earning the award for the first time in his five-year career.