I am back with my 8th slog for this semester. Damn this semester is going by so fast. Looking back to week 1 I remember telling you how this was my first time writing blogs whether it be for class or for leisure. I must say though, writing every week did help me to understand my material as it gave me a chance to look back at the material and summarize it. It worked as a review process for me and helped me to improve my grades a great deal. Specially considering that for nearly a month our amazing TAs are on strike, going back over the material to summarize for the blogs really helped me to pin point where I was lost and what I was confident with from the previous week's material. I really though hope that the TAs would come back now that we are near the end of the semester because getting that extra help in this course would definitely help all of us for the final exam.
During week 9 we had our Test 2, and you know what that means... STUDY STUDY STUDY CRAMMING STUDY...This is exactly how the week went for me. Simply going over all the material expected to be on the test and working on questions from past test. Although I missed having the TAs, I have to be honest I was happy to get that extra few hours from the lab hours to just go over all the material. When I wrote the test I felt confident that I did well and I knew how to tackle all the questions on the test as compared to test 1 where I just felt lost(even though material was much easier on test 1). I am still awaiting my marks for the test just as everyone else is but I am sure well get our marks soon.
After the test we had a short lecture on how to mutate the Binary Search Tree (BST). I went over this material before the test thinking that it will be on the test but since I am in Danny's evening class, this stuff was not on the test. But it felt good to have gone over the material before class. Basically, mutating the BST involves either inserting data into the tree or deleting the data from the tree. Also since a BST only has two children(left or right), it is easy to determine where the data goes. For example: if the data is less than the node, then the data goes to the left of the node making it the left child and if data is greater than the node, it goes to the right of the node making it the right child. Though it was a short lecture, we managed to cover a lot of material that needed to be covered for the final.
Now, that the countdown to the final begins, I want to thank all of you for reading my blogs and wish you all GOODLUCK!!! *Keeping fingers crossed to get TAs back*
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