Another week is over! It has been three weeks since school started. I miss my summer a lot, especially because work is starting to pile up with my courses and I am starting to get very busy. There are lots of students on campus now, and the classrooms are always full. It can be difficult for me to concentrate in some other courses, but I find CSC165 to be getting more and more interesting. This week we learned something new.
We continued learning about symbols this week, and the new topic of the week was conjunction, disjunction, and negation. Conjunction corresponds to ''and'', and is symbolized by "^"; disjunction corresponds to ''or'', and is symbolized by "v"; negation corresponds to "not", and is symbolized by "┐". I have never seen or learned about these symbols before, so they seem really cool to me. I have never thought that symbols can be like language and be used to form sentences.
In the tutorial this week, we tried to change sentences to symbols. Different people came up with different ideas. Although some of them were not correct, they let me realize that just little difference would change the entire meaning of the "sentence". I found it is not easy to translate a sentence into symbols in a short time. I believe that to become more familiar with all the concepts, I need to do more practice.
Another week has passed again, and I'm still really enjoying this course. Hopefully it will be even more interesting in the future. It is kind of fun writing a journal every week talking about CSC165. All the journals throughout the semester will show how much I have learned, and how I feel about this course. I'm looking forward to the next week!
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