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After two weeks of confusion, I finally was confortable with both the lectures times and the homework to
follow. The lecture was mostly about what of we read were we responsible for to learn. Turns out half of what we
did was not to important or would not show up until years later unexpectedly. Would of liked to now that before hand
:). He pointed out 1.6 on Proofs as being an important section. I am going to have to study that more in the future
as it was one of the harder parts of the chapter.
We also looked at a quirky programming language called proglog. More out of curiousity probably than
anything else. I was interesting to see a programming language with a much different format. I could see how it
could be useful in specific application. We also looked into the language lisp. It had scary formating and seemed
to completly different from conventional language. I have to check it out sometime.
The homework this week was alot easier and it was not just because of the shorter number of problems. I knew
this time not to write it out and word but to do it in notepad/nano. I tried to pick a variety of problems, but it
was tempting sometimes to pick ones that looked easy. They tended however to be the ones that were more complicated.
Prob 5 of Section 1 was pretty simple though I
had some trouble with all of the brackets. (A member of a group of a group of a group....)
Prob 22 of Section 1 was another set question but had
the confusion of have the null set. Apparently Null is always part of a Power set but not used in all of the sets of
the power set.
Prob 1 of Section 2 was a problem where we had to
convert expression with unions, intersection, etc symbols into english form. I noticed that much of the same rules
of logic operators parallel the rules of set operation. I hope the analogy doesn't get me into a trap later...
Prob 26 of Section 2 was one I had to do by virtue of
my love for Venn Diagrams. I am a spatial thinker and Venn diagrams really bring things into focus. Some of these
were a challenge though particularly the last with it's many negations.
I was going to do a program even though one wasn't assigned. I am itching to code some more because the last
one was fun to do. It ended up being a busy weekend though with 2 reports. Maybe next week.
PS. I am having to much trouble with permissions. Something I am not getting I suppose. I'll try to fix it.
PSS. I realized I was short on the number of problems done so I did 4 more.
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