Thursday, October 18, 2012

Test Result

The stunning moment when the prof said the class average was 78%, I was astonished to the amount that I might have done terribly on the term last. However, I managed to pass with 62% which I am actually glad of since I had failed in high school in comsci which made me drop eventually.

The current material makes me glad to be in comsci since there happens to be math (ie. fibonacci numbers) which was basically a geometrical sequence of numbers. I was quite surprised as to how fast it takes for the human brain to calculate versus using a computer. Hopefully, I practice more with Dr.Racket and eventually survive in this course.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Each and every assigned command in Dr. Racket requires essential steps before arriving to a solution. "require picturing-programs" or "require 2hdtp/image"  are require steps in the definitions or interactions window which allow the user to call upon a program and to re-define a certain function to hold value.
By using these ideas, I was able to re-define a function thus simplifying my steps. Stepper was a efficient method in Dr. racket as I was able to correct my steps due to careless errors. Various applications of shape manipulation was fairly easy to express by adding an input such as "flip-horizontal, scale/xy."