The material is getting more challenging and interesting
now. We are learning to rewrite English statements symbolically. I found that
this required careful thinking, and is slightly confusing at times, but is
actually quite fun.
In tutorial exercise #2, I was confused about one question,
which said ‘Some courses have the same prerequisites’. I interpreted this statement to mean that
some courses share one or more common prerequisites, so I rewrote it
symbolically as
But when the TA went through the questions with us during
the tutorial, he put down
which really confused me for a while because I thought that
he was wrong. However, I tried to translate this symbolic statement into
English, and found that it meant some courses have the same set of
prerequisites, and realized that the original English statement in the question
could also mean that. Aside from that, I haven’t had much trouble. We’ve started
playing around more with the symbols and learned a few laws such as association
laws and distributive laws. We have our first assignment now. I’ve taken a look
at it, and it seems to require a lot of playing around and thinking about the
symbols. I’m really looking forward to working on it, as I find what we are
doing now fun.
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