Back to work

I'm back after missing a couple of posts due to travelling for reading week. Reading week was quite relaxing, but now is time to focus on the tasks at hand once more. The workload comes thick and fast at this particular time of the year for a university student, and CSC104 makes no exception.  The second part of the Wikipedia assignment is due this week, while the first project is due next week.

The first project seems to be quite interesting. When I first looked at it, waiting for a delayed flight at an airport, I must admit I thought it was quite hard. I've had a couple of more looks since and now I think it is not very hard and it is going to be enjoyable to work on. Besides, between useful DrRacket tools like the stepper and examples of similar completed definitions in the project itself or the lectures, I think I should be able to figure it out.

The most tedious assignment is turning out to be the second Wikipedia one. The reason is that I cannot figure out how I am going to indicate that I have read the learn how links without making the plan look and sound incredibly artificial. I have, more or less, figured out what I want to do with my article. I have also consulted various helpful links in Wikipedia. The next step now should be writing the plan, but this is where I'm having trouble. My problem is I cannot think of a seamless way to combine the two. The main concern is that the plan is going to look and feel too disconnected, because I will have to go out of my way to show that I have read the learn how links and other resources such as the Wikipedia Manual of Style. As of the moment of this writing I have not yet come up with a solution to this conundrum. Hopefully though, by tomorrow at 11:59 PM I will have found a way.

The blizzard and the test

This week there was the first term test for the course. I was a bit nervous in anticipation of it initially (as with every exam or test or any other way of direct performance assessment). When I first got the test in class and had a quick look at it the first impression I got was that the questions were not hard but it was going to be long. I thought I might struggle to finish in time but in the end it turned out quite well. I was very happy with how I did and I am expecting a good mark on it.

The other good thing related to the test was the fact that there were no tutorials this Friday. I am not saying this as a disrespect to tutorials, but the lack of them this week allowed me to stay inside during the massive snow storm that hit the city, during which, for some reason that I'm sure appeared good enough to the powers that be at the university, ours was the only university that remained open in Toronto, at least for a good portion of the day.

So there you have it, two good things inside a single week coming from a test. Who would have guessed?