Week 3
I am very pleased with how the class is developing. Prof Heap introduces concepts in a very slow and deliberate way that allows us to understand them, yet keeps them interesting.
The binary translation in class of the first phrase of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was especially enlightening. It made me aware of the massive task of coding and decoding that computers undertake constantly, and that we take for granted.
I also enjoyed the quick look at the Jacquard Loom and the Babbage difference engine. These machines have the elegance of a past, hand crafted age, yet they essentially run extremely simplified operations that modern computers run.
I am confident that I performed well on this week's quiz. On the first quiz I only got one question wrong, on the matter of rotation in Dr. Racket. I rotated the object 90 degrees, but in the wrong direction. I won't make that mistake again in the future.
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