csc165 week 2

It has been two weeks since my university life began. I was always being told by my friends who are in higher grade that university is quite different from high school like the teaching styles by professors. But I didn’t realise until the moment I was in the campus. After the first week, it seemed quite easy to study in university and I was kind of excited about everything around me. However, I didn’t know that the real university life just began. The second week was totally different from the first week as we began to learn something new based on the program I chose. And it seemed obvious that I had to change a way of studying in order to get used to the university life as quickly as I can. For this course, to tell the truth, I really didn’t know what it is about in the beginning. I got totally confused when I did the problem solving for the first tutorial like translating English in to symbolic form.  Thankfully, I have more sense on this course, on the logic after finishing the first tutorial and I realise the significance of taking this course.

Basically, what I learnt from this course this week is about some symbols, such as universal and existential duality (“for all” and “there exits”), implication , conjunction and disjunction and negation, as well as how to use them. It’s kind of hard for me to understand if the question has a combination of all the symbols. Therefore, it’s quite important for me to get more familiar with those symbols and do practises related to them. 

I also look at the slog from http://slogcsc165.blogspot.ca/. He introduces a type of puzzle called "ship puzzle" which I think is pretty interesting.Solving puzzles like this is also a good way to learn logic.