Week 3

Blog post #3!

~~~~~~WEEK 3~~~~~~

Today's outline:

• Conjunctions
• Disjunctions
• Negations
• Truth Tables
• Manipulation laws

We started this class learning about conjunctions and disjunctions. I understood what both meant and the Ferrari example helped me fully understand the concept behind each one. I also learned the symbolic representation for conjunctions and disjunctions.

I found this joke during class very amusing. It was a good way to lighten up the mood.

A logician’s wife is having a baby. The

doctor immediately hands the newborn to

the dad.

His wife asks impatiently: “So, is it a boy or

a girl?”

The logician replies: “Yes.”

We then went onto learning about negation. I have learned it in MAT137 so I did not have trouble understanding. I found the negation exercise very easy and a confidence booster for myself. I usually am silent during class and do not participate as much but this exercise changed that. I started participating in class and I ended up learning from it as well.

However, I did not fully understand what scope meant and was left confused after class. Furthermore, I did not understand the implying part (Q->R) on the truth tables.

Next, we learned about De Morgan’s law. I understood it completely and have no difficulty in it. We also learned about Commutative laws, Associative law, Distributive law, Identity law, and Idempotent law. I did not understand them during class because I thought the professor Zhang was going over them too quickly, but I revised them at home and I understood them.

I did not understand this week’s tutorial properly. I think there should be example of a question which should be done; it would help me understand how to attempt the question and how to construct the answer. I did not fully understand this week’s tutorial and I know I did not do the quiz well. I will study more for the upcoming tutorial and I will do well hopefully.

Week 2

Blog post 2!

~~~~~~WEEK 2~~~~~~

Today's outline:

• Quantifiers, verify / false
• Sentences, statements
• Predicates
• Implications,  equivalence 

This week I learned about the following topics:
-Visualization with Venn Diagram
-Quantifiers as claims about sets

-Evaluating quantified claims

-Difference between sentences and statements
-Implications
-Vacuous truth

I enjoy the regular jokes that Professor Larry Zhang makes during class. Furthermore, I enjoyed the practice questions on sentences and statements because I was involved in it and I learned a lot of things that I did not know before.

Last week I was not very confident because I did not understand everything because I have no programming experience. I am taking CSC108 to learn the basics of programming which also helps me understand some of the material in this course. This week I felt confident about the material covered this week and I understood everything.

I am also taking MAT137Y1 along with CSC165. We were doing Logic in MAT137. This course has helped me in MAT137 because I did not completely understand the topic in MAT137. We studied the same topic in CSC165 and I understood the things I did not understand in MAT137.

The tutorial started off by realizing I was sitting in some course which was studying Induction. The room which I was assigned to was already booked by some other professor teaching some EAS course. After that situation was sorted out we went to a different class for the tutorial. I enjoyed this weeks tutorial class because it was short and simple. I learned how to properly make Venn Diagrams and label them properly. The quiz was easy and I saw a person complete it even before I finished reading the question which was surprising to me.

Blog post 1!

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