CSC 165 SLOG #1: My first SLOG for CSC 165 Fall! (Week 1 and 2)

Not only is this my first SLOG, but also this is my first time making my own blog!

I had my first tutorial yesterday which was fairly easy compared to other course. It was about Venn diagram and how we can prove whether the universal and existential claim are true or not. We also went over the meaning of  ∀ and ∃.
∀ represents for all.
∃ represents for some.

The symbols were easy as I have already learnt it during high school.

I summarized it below on how to verify universal and existential claims.

For universal claim to be true, we need to check that all the examples given are true to the claim.
For universal claim to be false, we need at least one counter-example.

For existential claim to be true, we just need at least one example that supports the claim
For existential claim to be false, we need to check that all the examples provided must be counter-examples to the claim.

Verifying universal and existential claim is very fun to me. I also took my first quiz in CSC 165 and hope to achieve high score on it.

Today, I explored the topics of implication, converse and contrapositive which were new to me. Not only that, I also learnt about expressing implication in English just like shown below.

Implication: P ---> Q
Expressing implication in English: "If    P  , then   Q   ".
Where P is antecedent and Q is consequent.

But that was when I faced my first challenge in the course.

During the lecture, I had hard time figuring out which one is antecedent and consequent for each statement. That was when I realized that this course is the most confusing. The course material itself is not that hard, but I find it very confusing. In order to overcome this challenge, I decided that I will practice on distinguishing between antecedent and consequent from natural language this week. I am aiming to master today's material by this week. To check my achievement, I am going to put another post on this Sunday to see how well I have done according to my plan. If not, I will try to find some improvement with my plan to achieve success in the course.

At the end of the course, I hope to achieve more skills in order to be a computer scientist and to explore computer science.