SLOG 2 Hamna Imran

           So far, preparing for the quizzes and the test hasn’t been very challenging. I have been paying a good amount of attention during lectures and then going home to try out the new things that were taught myself on DrRacket. Also, I have been thoroughly going through the weekly exercises that are posted to keep myself in practise and to make sure I know all the key concepts required for the quizzes/test. As of yet, all these practises have been helping me perform well on the evaluations.

            I have tried to make a couple of interesting images using the concepts taught in the lectures. I tried to make an image by overlaying a bunch of ellipses which looked extremely satisfying and I was very proud of it. I also tried to make an illusion type image by scaling a picture into different sizes and then overlaying them.

            Initially when I first saw Booleans and functions like ‘cond’, I was pretty intimidated by them. For Booleans, it seemed difficult to memorise what functions like ‘and’ and ‘or’ would do and I would confuse them with each other on multiple occasions. With ‘cond’, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information you had to put in and just the concept was a little confusing to understand. However, I listened carefully to the professor and practised a lot on my own to overcome my confusion; a lot of times I used the function ‘step’ to clarify how things work.

            All the resources available for this course are pretty accessible and the TA office hours are very convenient as well. So no, I haven’t had an incident where I wanted help and none was available. The professor is always open for questions and the office hours are very helpful. Overall, help has been available whenever needed.