Guangyi Xu
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xuguang1
Oct 14, 2016
CSC104 SLOG 1
It is commonly believed
that the Internet industry is gradually replacing the Traditional sectors, especially
in China. For example, the convenient and efficient online to offline
E-commerce is taking over more and more market shares from traditional retail
markets, and giant Chinese group Alibaba is the largest customer to customer
and business to customer E-commerce firm in the world now. As for as I am
concerned, advanced programmers are playing an increasingly important role in
all aspects of our life, and programming has greatly facilitated people’s
lives. Hence, I decided to learn programming in university to help me to
enhance my competitiveness. CSC104 is a good course for beginners just like me,
and I hope I can learn the rudiments of programming, and lay the foundation for
my future.
Before I learnt this
course, I expected programming would be more about learning languages, and how
to communicate with the machine. However, based on my experience in this course
so far, I think programming is more about logic, and how to pour human’s intelligence
into machines by typing simple codes. I am a poor skilled programmer so far, so
I do not find programming is as fun as video games or basketball, but actually
I find it a lot of fun, I mean when I was playing with those codes but my
program was not running and I was debugging for an hour then hit control+A and
then control+V again and finally it worked. I do not find this course is as
hard as I thought so far. However, it is hard to think like a computer, because
I am a ESL student and I am unfamiliar grammar rules and syntax, also there are
many new set of words I have never seen.
When I study for quizzes,
firstly I will go through the notes from our website, then I will type codes
from the review. Finally, I will play with the codes while learning. I also ask
for help from my friends if I need it. However, I am not very satisfied with my
performance on those quizzes. I was unfamiliar with this new skill yet, and I
have confidence because programming takes years to learn, I think I would be
better. I am very interested in quantum computing, and I think it would be the
future and human’s next technology revolution.
