So its now just passed week 11 and the strike just finished because the union agreed to get a third party and get a final agreement in place so both parties will be happy and the education for the students can continue. Personally I believe that the union is just being stupid now because by having a third party which is not biased to any side, create an agreement will just end up getting some sort of average on the demands of both parties. But my grades can now be accumulated and marked and I can graduate this year so I'm happy for that.
This week post is supposed to be about a revisit to a previous slog and see if my views has changed. So earlier in week 5 I wrote about tracing recursion, I think my views have changed a little from when I first wrote that slog. I now believe that tracing recursion is more like a formula instead of treating each case individually. When I say that I mean I believed that tracing would get more complicated as the course progressed but now I am seeing that it doesn't get any harder. The tracer just has to see what the code is doing and write each step on paper. With that simple step the tracer should be able to figure out any recursion call.
That is my post for this week. There is only 1 more week of school and so there will only be 1 more post. Please leave a comment below.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Monday, 23 March 2015
Week # 10 and the strike continues
This week we learned about unitesting and assertions. Unitesting is really helpful because instead of writing your tests in the doc string and making extra lines you can just put all your tests in a separate file and test your program all at once. This saves so much space in your main program file and makes your program look much cleaner than having all testing in the doc sting. I am pretty sure I will use this concept in the near future to help me make sure my program runs correctly.
The second thing we learned in class in the past week was assertion statements. Assertion statements only stop your code while it is running and the assertion line gets something that is not expected. Like a False statement when it expects a True statement. Once it receives this unexpected bool it will stop the program and give an exception statement to tell you where it stopped. This concept is also very useful in programming because I used to do this exact same thing manually with printing statements. When using printing statements the output of the code becomes very messy and hard to deal with after everything is working good. Also after competing the code you have to make sure that all the print statements have been deleted otherwise the print statement will come up while a user is running the code. In the end assertion statements will save a lot of time and effort to make the code writing more efficient and productive.
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The second thing we learned in class in the past week was assertion statements. Assertion statements only stop your code while it is running and the assertion line gets something that is not expected. Like a False statement when it expects a True statement. Once it receives this unexpected bool it will stop the program and give an exception statement to tell you where it stopped. This concept is also very useful in programming because I used to do this exact same thing manually with printing statements. When using printing statements the output of the code becomes very messy and hard to deal with after everything is working good. Also after competing the code you have to make sure that all the print statements have been deleted otherwise the print statement will come up while a user is running the code. In the end assertion statements will save a lot of time and effort to make the code writing more efficient and productive.
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Monday, 16 March 2015
Week #9 of CSC
Wow its already been 9 weeks of CSC 148. Exams are really creeping up quickly. So Last week Unit 3 of CUPE got into an agreement, which means for the most part school is back to normal. A few of the teachers assistance are back on the job because they figured out that the strike is not affecting the university as much as they wanted. The professors are cooping with the amount of TA they have access to so the strike should be over soon.
Last week we had a midterm test for CSC 148. I personally think I did not prepare properly for the test but lets see how it goes in the end. I really hope I do well in it. I don't think I prepared properly this time because it was very difficult to get a simple formula or a simple way to study for recursion. When writing a recursion function, the biggest hurdle to over come; is thinking on what the recurisive part of the function is supposed to do. Once that is part is completed then the rest of the function writes itself. For this midterm it is impossible to study all the recursive function in the world and that is why I found studying for this test very hard. Since some of the TAs are still on strike I expect the marking of this midterm to be delayed. So I will not know anytime soon what mark I got on this midterm.
Other than this midterm my week has gone great. This month has a lot of midterms and assignments due so lets hope for the best.
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Last week we had a midterm test for CSC 148. I personally think I did not prepare properly for the test but lets see how it goes in the end. I really hope I do well in it. I don't think I prepared properly this time because it was very difficult to get a simple formula or a simple way to study for recursion. When writing a recursion function, the biggest hurdle to over come; is thinking on what the recurisive part of the function is supposed to do. Once that is part is completed then the rest of the function writes itself. For this midterm it is impossible to study all the recursive function in the world and that is why I found studying for this test very hard. Since some of the TAs are still on strike I expect the marking of this midterm to be delayed. So I will not know anytime soon what mark I got on this midterm.
Other than this midterm my week has gone great. This month has a lot of midterms and assignments due so lets hope for the best.
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Monday, 9 March 2015
WEEK 8 Continuing with the strike
So this week was really different, especially for csc148. I didn't know how much I really needed the TA's support until this week got over. The labs in this course are really helpful because you can ask the TA a question and get an answer right away. (Without waiting for someone to answer it on the discussion board online.)
In one of my other courses the TA posted up an announcement on Portal and she said she was not going to strike anymore and that her office hours will resume like normal. I really hope all the TA's do the same thing and that way all the students will get the support form the TA's they need.
I truely believe that many of the TAs really did not want to strike but since they are apart of a union they were forced to strike. If all the TAs start backing down and start with their normal office hours then I believe that the strike will finish and everything will be back to normal.
Other than that the course this week was a little bit more challenging than normal so I will have to revisit the lab 07 and work on it a bit more. I think I was really close to getting the solution correct but I just ended giving up in the end.
I hope the strike ends early or the TA of this course also start with their normal hours again. Lets hope for the best for this coming week and see where it take us.
In one of my other courses the TA posted up an announcement on Portal and she said she was not going to strike anymore and that her office hours will resume like normal. I really hope all the TA's do the same thing and that way all the students will get the support form the TA's they need.
I truely believe that many of the TAs really did not want to strike but since they are apart of a union they were forced to strike. If all the TAs start backing down and start with their normal office hours then I believe that the strike will finish and everything will be back to normal.
Other than that the course this week was a little bit more challenging than normal so I will have to revisit the lab 07 and work on it a bit more. I think I was really close to getting the solution correct but I just ended giving up in the end.
I hope the strike ends early or the TA of this course also start with their normal hours again. Lets hope for the best for this coming week and see where it take us.
Monday, 2 March 2015
Week number 7 ........ STRIKE
This week I was suppose to talk about OOP. I did this last week and so I would like to be graded on that post for the requirement.
This week is going to be a surprise to me because I have never attended school during the time that the TA's are on strike.
My courses have done different things to keep the learning process continuing during this strike. With CSC class everything is the same but there will be no quiz at the end of the week and the lab will be canceled. I have 2 other economics courses in Mississauga and those courses do not have any tutorials so they are running as usual. The professors said they will increase their office hours to help the students with completing the homework assigned. Finally the professor for the math course I am taking said he would get back to is on Monday night on how to deal with the strike. The math professor is really dependent on the TA's and so he has to really change the marking scheme in the course to let the student get their grade for the course.
My thoughts on the strike are personal and I think that what the TA's is asking for is not fair. They are asking for more money to support themselves but they are not thinking what it is going to do to the university's funds. They are complaining about not getting paid enough for the work they are doing and that they are paid under the poverty line. Even though they are earning $40 and hour and minimum wage is $11 per an hour. If they think they are not being paid enough they should stop working for the university and start working for another company.
The main reason I do not like this is because in the end the university is a not for profit organization and the main source of revenue is from students tuition. I am already paying deferred fees of above $14,000 a year. When I started university 4 years ago I was paying $12,000 a year and the cost went up $2,000 without TA's going on strike with the TA's going on strike the cost will probably go up $500 next year plus the amount the university decided to pay the TA's.
This week is going to be a surprise to me because I have never attended school during the time that the TA's are on strike.
My courses have done different things to keep the learning process continuing during this strike. With CSC class everything is the same but there will be no quiz at the end of the week and the lab will be canceled. I have 2 other economics courses in Mississauga and those courses do not have any tutorials so they are running as usual. The professors said they will increase their office hours to help the students with completing the homework assigned. Finally the professor for the math course I am taking said he would get back to is on Monday night on how to deal with the strike. The math professor is really dependent on the TA's and so he has to really change the marking scheme in the course to let the student get their grade for the course.
My thoughts on the strike are personal and I think that what the TA's is asking for is not fair. They are asking for more money to support themselves but they are not thinking what it is going to do to the university's funds. They are complaining about not getting paid enough for the work they are doing and that they are paid under the poverty line. Even though they are earning $40 and hour and minimum wage is $11 per an hour. If they think they are not being paid enough they should stop working for the university and start working for another company.
The main reason I do not like this is because in the end the university is a not for profit organization and the main source of revenue is from students tuition. I am already paying deferred fees of above $14,000 a year. When I started university 4 years ago I was paying $12,000 a year and the cost went up $2,000 without TA's going on strike with the TA's going on strike the cost will probably go up $500 next year plus the amount the university decided to pay the TA's.
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