French, Week 9
slipped a day.
but did the rest.
the podcast was amazing.
i did not understand anything.
will keep at it :)
slipped a day.
but did the rest.
the podcast was amazing.
i did not understand anything.
will keep at it :)
French, seems to be the only thing that I do regularly.
Probably because it takes me only 45 minutes to an hour daily.
(And that is because I am dumb and slow and deliberate. I’m sure other folks must be doing this is 10-20 minutes)
While I thought I was making progress, I had a funny sort of realisation when a friend asked me if I could speak and carry on a basic conversation in French.
And I realised, I couldn’t. I could not even understand words (or a sense of what they might convey outside of the little, I was learning daily.)
So I think I will try listening to podcasts in French, in order to get a sense of the rhythm and flow of the language.
Will write back in a couple of months to record, if there has been improvement.
Nothing much to say except that I am still at it. Chipping away slowly at this, waiting for my all at once moment.
Lets see what this day holds :)
Nope. cannot focus.
Annnnnd now there is no power.
This day is done!
Will just sit at the window and enjoy the rain :)
Hopefully tomorrow is a better day.
Just did the MIT course all day today, because my next problem set is due tonight and I did not want to fall behind again.
Got distracted a bit, but a lot less than yesterday with the way Nikola renders headers, and youtube videos of sausage making :P
Now that I am going through the class, I realise programming is not what I imagined.
It is at once, much simpler and a bit more complex than I thought it to be.
More than that, I realise I can do this. :)
The day isn’t over yet. Will attempt to solve the problem set at night.
a*b
when b
is 1
is just a
. a
to itself while decrementing b
until b
reaches one and et voilà, that value of a
is my answerb
is 1
. so i just keep adding a
to a function that just asks if the value of b
is 1
. if not just add a
to that same function where the else states that I reduce b
by 1
. when b
is 1
, i just return a
which will be the first of the added a
s and the function then begins looping outwards and backwards adding a
. I realise I have horribly explained it, but it’s somehow more intuitive and more elegant to my mind and fun to watch, so I’ll let Professor Grimson do it much better than I can
P.S. A note to student planet readers, if you miss some posts in that feed, check the site to see if I wrote anything (or manually subscribe to the main feed.) I might be uncomfortable pushing certain language or frustrations of mine to other learners at large.
Day 1 is an disaster of fantastical proportions.
I did lots of stuff.
But I got nothing of consequence done.
Save one big thing.
I managed to buckle down and study for six hours.
That counts as a win, a big one in my book.
Will hopefully get more done tomorrow.
If you are following this blog, the days might soon seem out of sync.
That’s because I’ve decided that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are my days of study. Monday & Tuesday are for work, while Satuday and Sunday are for home and family.
I need to practice what I preach and have margins and boundaries in my life.
I learnt
abs(x-y)
instead of x==y