Impression of first few weeks

For the first few weeks of the semester, I did not have a good start as I didn't recover from my holiday   laziness and get back to the fast school pace. Especially in the first two weeks. The lectures were very   crowded at that time and I sat in the very back, my mind basically wandering around for the whole lecture. So I wasn't efficient in class, nor was I spending enough time to review the material and prepare for labs. So I did pretty bad on designing and implementing classes. I do feel I was having a better understanding for recursions and I did pretty well on the lab and quiz and I could finally sit down and actually study the material for couple of hours. However, I am still a little unorganized and  inefficient in lectures.  

Personally I feel this course requires more effort than CSC108 . 108 is an introduction course, with pieces of information on objects, functions, loops etc. But 148 is giving me a more coherent feel as we start  to explore how everything we learned in python are related and how we can reach our own goals using presented tools and acquired skills. Particularly, we are going deeper on the same subjects. Therefore, this course has quite a bigger workload--not in terms of the topics covered since we only talked about class and recursions but in the depth we went. When studying 108, I felt like as long as I go over all the lecture videos and course notes I would be fine since everything we need to know were covered in those. However for 148 the lectures were more like an exposure to knew concepts, and we need to read the notes and additional material to improve our understanding. When I looked over the additional questions on the lab sheet for recursions, I realize the difficulty in designing such functions on my own. Only knowing the concepts just isn't enough. We have to go through a process of practising and understanding.

This is impression for the course for the first few weeks. For the upcoming weeks, I hope to be more organized and dedicated. Wish everybody good luck!