This week we learned a lot of new material in class. Some highlights include how to negate a statement, truth tables, and various laws. I feel fairly confident negating statements as we went over numerous examples in class and after doing some practice on my own I think I can do alright with them. The truth tables also seem fairly simple to use although we only did simple examples and I think that they probably would not seem so straight forward with much more difficult examples. The laws are little bit confusing because I have never seen them written symbolically. Seeing them written this way will take some getting used to.
Last week's quiz did not go as planned. I was not careful enough with my work and write down the answers backwards. Not reading the question carefully and not watching what I'm writing down has been a problem for me in the past so I really need to work on that and read things over multiple times. I think I got the answer right for the quiz this week right though.
I did the assignment and I feel like it was really fair. It was a little challenging but not overly difficult. There is one question that I'm too sure about but I still have a week to think it over and hopefully it and all the other answers right.
Saturday, 27 September 2014
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
SLOG 1
We're two weeks into the class and I feel like things are going pretty smoothly so far. What we have done so far has not been too complicated as they are just the basic things to know before getting into much more difficult things like proofs.
Something new that I have learned is how to verify and falsify quantifiers. I have experience doing this in other classes but I never knew that there was just one general goal you would try to show to verify/falsify each quantifier.
The fact that everything so far has been explained well and we are given a number of examples is the thing I have enjoyed the most so far about the class. I have done most of the things we have learned so far in other classes but I never really understood a lot of it before doing it in this class. This has me feeling fairly confident about the material learned so far although I will obviously need to spend more time doing exercises for practice and to make surely I truly grasp all the concepts.
The one thing that is a little challenging is the everyday language of implications. There are so many different ways to say an implication and a lot of times it does not seem like the sentence is even implying anything. I will have to look over the notes and remember each of the general forms of an implication so that I can identify implications easier.
Something new that I have learned is how to verify and falsify quantifiers. I have experience doing this in other classes but I never knew that there was just one general goal you would try to show to verify/falsify each quantifier.
The fact that everything so far has been explained well and we are given a number of examples is the thing I have enjoyed the most so far about the class. I have done most of the things we have learned so far in other classes but I never really understood a lot of it before doing it in this class. This has me feeling fairly confident about the material learned so far although I will obviously need to spend more time doing exercises for practice and to make surely I truly grasp all the concepts.
The one thing that is a little challenging is the everyday language of implications. There are so many different ways to say an implication and a lot of times it does not seem like the sentence is even implying anything. I will have to look over the notes and remember each of the general forms of an implication so that I can identify implications easier.
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