SLOG Week 2

This week’s lectures:

This week, we learned how to use the many different logical symbols that we know to create logical statements. We also learned a few new symbols for conjunction, dysjunction and negation. We also learned how to negate logical statements with the negation symbol. There were also slides which talked about the many different laws such as De Morgan’s law, the associative law, commutative law, and distributive law. Aside from this, the lectures this week felt a bit slow since a lot of time was taken to show things with truth tables or venn diagrams. On the Friday lecture, we spent the class solving a problem. This was a nice change of pace and it was pretty interesting

Difficulties:

I ran into a few difficulties this week when trying to translate sentences into logical statements. I got wrong answers at times and at other times, I wasn’t really sure what to do. I should probably read over the course notes and look for some practice problems to fix this.

SLOG Week 1

What New Things Were Learned?
As with many other courses, the first week and a half has been a bit slow. We were taught topics such as how to problem solve, set theory, and logic. Logic was not too hard for me to understand since I have taken a computer science course before in high school and this topic was also being covered in another course I was taking, MAT137. Set theory was also simple to grasp since it was another topic that MAT137 covers. Some of the things we learned with logic included if-then, vacuous truth, and the two quantifiers (existential and universal).

How Did Tutorials Go?
Tutorials this week went well. The TA took up questions from the exercise sheet and answered questions that people had. We then wrote a very brief quiz. Overall, there were no problems with the tutorial.

How Do I Feel About This Course?
I find this course to be interesting since it is supposed to help people learn how to solve word problems. I look forward to seeing what I can learn from this course to improve my problem solving. The professor also seems nice and he is not boring to listen to.

Achievements?
Since this is only the second week, there were not many or any achievements at all other than being able to understand the concepts being taught.