Friday, November 7, 2008

Thoughts on Term Test Two (And the aggressive application of alliteration)

Well, the second term test was this morning.

All in all, it didn't go too badly. I'm unforunately pretty sure I messed up the first question involving recursion - I just wasn't quite thinking clearly and have the sinking feeling that I pulled some "Assume A therefore A" stuff back there, seeing as I never actually used the definition properly... I think. In any case, the question about proving the correctness of that function with integer division was fine, and I'm quite sure I got that one right (I've got a handle on proving correctness in general now, I think. Iterative functions at least). Though I think I might not have explicitly stated any invariant, everything's there (maybe a bit buried in that wall of text). The string reversal one seemed alright too, so all in all a test that didn't go too badly.

That's another story from all this business with the OLM not supporting Unicode text. I messaged Prof. Heap about it and I hope it won't be a problem turning it in now, since getting a zero on something as big as an assignment would be pretty harsh.

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