Saturday, August 27, 2011

Activity 16

Built a DMUX8WAY.  These last 2 turned out to be easier than I expected.

4 comments:

  1. Hi,
    You have done an awesome job of completing all the activities of the first section of TECS.

    Please allow me to make a suggestion. While creating blog posts for the activities, can you try and jot your notes in the blog posts?

    It might need a little more time to blog your notes/thought process, but it will help you in many ways.

    By doing this you will be able to create a portfolio of everything that you are learning. So by the time you finish the course you will have credentials in the form of an e-portfolio, which you can put on your resume.

    The process of writing will also force you to think about things which may not come to your mind when you work your way through the course.

    Good luck and do tell me if I can make your learning experience better.

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  2. Hey Parag... I'm not sure what notes I'd add. I'm already a professional programmer, and I'm doing the course mainly to make sure I've got all the bases covered.

    The logic for the gates is not really different from a lot of games I've played, and programming I've done, so while I can say I've got a clearer idea of how basic the lowest levels are, and how they work together, I haven't really learned anything else.

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  3. Hi William,

    I see what you are saying.

    I guess in your case you could add any aha! moments you had while re-learning, or any things you may want to note down as a future reference for yourself.

    I realize that creating these notes will slow you down, and may not give you the benefit of "forcing you to think about various perspectives as you learn", since you are already familiar with most of the stuff.

    One thought could be to push assignment code you create to GitHub, and add a link to that in your notes.

    I guess different things work for different people, so it's best to do what works best for you.

    Some time back I started re-learning Python, and decided to document the process for myself and others.

    http://python-learning-journal.blogspot.com/2011/08/lpthw-exercise-5.html

    Just some thoughts...

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  4. Yeah I haven't really had any of those yet. I also thought about posting my code, but it would only be of interest to others in the class and I didn't want to tempt them into cheating themselves of the process of figuring out these things for themselves.

    So far, I've posted the only little thoughts I had, like it was easier out harder than anticipated.

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