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CSC104 October 6th


I choose CSC104 for several reasons, such as my curiosity and studies. I always wanted to know how programing feels like. Specially, in this world where the technology is always developing and interacting with ourselves is necessary to know about how programs work. Additionally, CSC104 will provided with the basis for my developing knowledge and for a better understanding of Cognitive Sciences which is my current major.  Having said that, I expect that the course will give me the basic tools to understand in deep some of the computer concepts and theories that I study.
I always thought that programing was going to be boring, but I was wrong. In this course, I realized that learning the different commands and concepts is interesting. I had this pre-concept of programming because I previously had learned how to use some FSL, which has many differences with Dr. Racket. This is because FSL is predominately for fMRI analysis, while DrRacket is more a multi-paradigm program. That is why I have found it exciting so far, specially how we can create new functions with the definition command. Because of that, I would say that DrRacket is a more interactive language of programing that allow us to play a little bit with our creativity and the different commands. Although, sometimes it is tricky with some of the concepts such as list and apply. This made me reflect that the course indeed is harder than I expected to be. However, making the weekly exercises for the quizzes’ preparation has helped me to overcome some of the difficulties that I had in mastering the material. Thus, I will say that I feel satisfy with my performance in the quizzes because the weekly exercises usually give me a good practice of what topics I am going to be tested. Finally, I would just like to add that some of topics of interest for me are binary numbers and artificial intelligence 

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