Working on Project II ...

Project two is due next friday. I have been procrastinating a lot to look at the project, as something or the other turns up and feels like a priority at that moment of time. Since, I finally finished all my labs, quizzes and assignments for this term, this project is the only thing I have left to do. I have just read the handout and looked at the program codes. They are quite interesting and challenging at the same time. I am currently focusing on the first program, contrast.rkt. Hopefully, it doesn't take me as long as ecosystem. I will blog soon to update my progress on the project, till then good luck on your projects. 

Wikipedia III

It's blogging time of the week again. This week as a whole was GOOD. I just submitted the wikipedia part three on MarkUs. I had to change some of my articles as a user already edited them, before I had time to do so. Also, one of them was semi-protected so I could not edit it. In the beginning, it was very boring, though after I finished edited my first article, it got very stimulating. One of my articles was very time consuming. It took me two hours to edit it. The plot section of the page was very lengthy with bunch of grammatical errors, inappropriate word choice, incorrect punctuation and awkward phrasing. Additionally, most of the sentences in the plot were not capitalized. I still feel that the page can be improved and hence I did not remove the copyediting banner from the page. I have added it to my watch-list, and will resume working on it later when I have some time in hand. Overall, I really enjoyed working on this assignment. It was innovative in the sense that rather than just covering the content concerned with the course, we got to explore the wikipedia community, which we all visit at some point of time in the day.

We also got back our tests on thursday, along with the project and wikipedia two marks. I am satisfied with my test mark, though I feel I should and could have done better on the last question. The project 1 mark was disappointing. I guess it is the ecosystem program that screwed up our mark. I am glad that we at least got part-marks for the check-expects and completion of the definitions. I hope to do better in the next project. 

TERM TEST 2!!

   Finally, weekend has knocked my door. If I think about it, the week was not that terrifying as I imagined it to be after all. I wish the tests were right after the reading week so that whatever I read during the reading week would have remained fresh in my head. This class's test did not bother me that much because we kept refreshing ourselves every week with the content either through the quiz or the previous assignment. Most of the stuff we learned so far was quite helpful while doing the project due last friday. However, I could not hand in a more complete and accurate version of one of the two programs, I am glad that at least I  know how to do it NOW. In my opinion, the test was moderate. I found the second question somewhat confusing, and therefore ended up wasting a lot of time on it, other than that it wasn't that bad. I can't say much unless I know how I did on the test. Unlike last time, the aid sheet was very helpful this time. Last time I made notes and ended up not using it. However, this time I referred to it numerous times. I am glad the work I put into writing up the aid sheet was at least worth the time . The wikipedia assignment part III is due next friday. I am waiting for the TA to post the evaluation/ comments on MarkUs, so that I can begin working on the third part. I don't want to keep it till the last minute this time. 

PROJECT 1!!

  Hello, I am late for my blog today, but I have been trying to figure out ecosystem.rkt for the project due today. Although, the the ball.rkt gave me numerous confusions and problems, I was successfully able to finish it with the desired output. However, I have been banging my head on the program code for ecosystem from a long time and it does not seem to work. I am not sure what to do with just five hours left in hand. I added the check-expectes, fixed the ones which were initially in the code, and it prompts saying that the nine tests have passed. I also fixed the definitions, but there is no stimulation in the images of the fox and mouse. Being in life sciences, I do understand the concept of the Lotka-voltera/ predator-prey model, but I believe it is the last few statements that is screwing me up. If I am not wrong, the output is supposed to result in different scaling of the images over time as the population of each species increase or decrease. Due to a bio midterm, I could not devote much time towards this project. I wish I had more time in hand. I do wish we get part marks for the remainder of the program, just incase I do not end up fixing this program. I tried to copy-paste the check-expect expression from piazza , just like it was instructed to check the accuracy, though it prompted an error. Well, I am not going to give up. I am going to get back to the program and see what I can do in the remaining of the time left. 

Quiz & Wikipedia Part II

      Today, the wikipedia assignment part two is due. After the completion of the plan, I realized that one of my choosen articles is semi-protected, implying that I have to edit minimum of ten articles to be eligible to copyedit the desired article. Now, that is quite disappointing. I was really looking forward towards editing that article. However, I cannot waste my time editing ten things to be able to edit a single project. Perhaps, I will just choose another article and include that in my plan, as that seems like the only option available. I found today's quiz kind of hard. It was not extremely difficult, at the same time during the quiz, I was confused whether this is the answer I am expected to write or I am missing something. Well, I guess I will find out once the solutions for today's quiz get posted. I better get back to fixing my plan and submit it before I forget it.