sLog CSC 165 Week 4

This week was mostly dedicated to finishing the first assignment. While some questions were straight forward some questions seemed impossible to answer, until you thought about the answer in a different way. It was rewarding to be able to answer questions on topics I learned in class in earlier weeks. I would have previously been unable to answer the questions on the assignment at the start of the year, so this assignment proved to me that I am learning something in this course.
For the assignment I worked with a partner (Paul Choi) which was immensely helpful. When going over questions that I was unsure of, it was helpful to have someone else to confirm your thought process was valid and also made sense to them. It was also helpful for catching the mistakes I made when answering questions. For some of my answers my logic was wrong, others the way I converted one statement to another was incorrect, or even when I copied the question from the assignment page to my document incorrectly.

SLog CSC165 Week 2

This week I had trouble keeping up with what the professor's presentation. When giving examples I felt that other students reached conclusions much faster than I did, and I was left behind working on the first example as he moves onto the third. To solve this problem for next week, I intend to print the slides of the lecture and go through them before class to have  better understanding while the professor is presenting.
I was having trouble understanding the difference between universal and existential claims, but I understood the content much better after the TA, Jason, explained it. Universal and existential claims are meant to be proven either true or false. When proving a claim it is easier to think if it is a big or small task to prove it true or false.
A universal claim is proven true only if every element is tested to be true. This is a lot of work and is a big task. However if someone wanted to find it false they would only need to find one element to prove it is false. This is small task to accomplish.
An existential claim is proven true if only one element is proven true. This is a small task to accomplish. To prove an existential claim is false one would need to test every element and prove every element is false. This is a big task to accomplish.