Week 3

I found this week’s tutorial exercise fairly easy, as it was an extension of last week’s exercises.  Initially, I struggled with defining the function lolcatz that we discussed in class.  In particular, I had trouble creating spaces between words when defining subjective-completion.  I received help during Friday’s tutorial, and now I can define and run the function lolcatz using DrRacket.  Currently, I am still unable to solve one problem.  I cannot make ALT + P work in DrRacket on my own computer, but I could make it work in the computer lab during Friday’s tutorial.  Instead of copying the previously inputted function, ALT +P produces this symbol: π.  Any suggestions?

First Lectures and Tutorial Exercises #1

I have never learned about computer science before, and until I signed up for the course I didn’t really know what it meant when people say they study computer science.  Therefore, each lecture I learn something new, except I already knew that a computer is not a toaster!

I am not very good with technology; so even installing DrRacket was difficult for me.  I was able to download DrRacket, but I was unable to open it.  I had to as a friend, who is taking higher-level computer science classes, for help.  I own a Mac laptop, and as it turns out, the reason I could not open DrRacket was because Apple preset my computer to only allow applications downloaded from the Mac App Store to open.

Once I was finally able to open DrRacket, expressing values was not very difficult.  I actually found it interesting.  I had a lot of fun flipping the image of a bunny I found on the Internet!  I am proud of myself for actually being able to get the computer to do what I want (very unusual for someone who is computer illiterate)!

Overall, I am enjoying the course thus far and I am looking forward to learning more about computer science!