Last Week

It's already the last week of classes of this semester. Feels like it's been only a very short time... Anyways, the past 2 weeks, we've finished up our last 2 problem sets and our A3. I personally did not feel that they were too hard in any sense, the problems where all pretty intuitive and as long as you felt good about the lecture material, you could probably do fairly well. The lectures seem to be incredibly important, or at least amazingly convenient for learning the material quickly, and I really regret having missed several during the course of this semester. I ended up spending several times the lecture hours that I missed just trying to catch up, and I still ended up with a weaker understanding of the material. I felt this especially after getting back test 2, since I pretty lost a couple of marks on each problem for some rather small mistakes that I probably could have avoided by going to all the lectures.
Tomorrow is going to be our final term test (for the morning sections anyway) and again I have quite a bit of material to catch up with, since I've been fairly busy with my 207 project (final version also due tomorrow). I'm pretty confident about DFSA's and regexes and most of the material about formal languages. I'm gonna need a bit of work to get more familiar with non-regular languages (really wish I hadn't missed those few lectures...).
Since the slogs are due tomorrow too, I guess this is also going to be my final entry here... Don' know if these will be kept here once the course ends. This has been my first course where we are required to keep a blog like this, and overall I feel that this is quite useful. A blog makes looking back at what you learned and did earlier amazingly clear. It also makes finding important mistakes that you've made during the term quick and clear. An important thing in my opinion, that allows you to make less mistakes in the future and also get a much better result from future courses, no matter what subjects they are about.
My number 1 mistake during this course is: Missing lectures.
Somthing that I will seriously tackle in my future courses. Maybe I'll even start a new blog for each of my courses next term...
Anyways, wish all of us the best for 2009! And good luck for the rest of 08!
Now, back to studying...