Thursday, 24 October 2013

Entry numero une

Since this is the first entry of the year, I think its only appropriate to start with a little introduction. 

Dear you-who-is-reading this:
 
My name is Jonathan, people mostly call me Jon. I am in second year at UofT, studying Actuarial Science and Statistics. My favourite colour ir purple and I love long walks down the beach....

My past 3 months in CSC104 has been fantastic. After attending the first lecture(when we made peanut butter sandwiches), I have been pretty confident about my choice of picking this course. Professor Heap is a tremendous instructor. He is slow and detail-oriented, but hes presentations are not boring at all. 

This week, i was able to learn about the functioning of hard-drives and how it effects a processing system as a memory storage. It is amazing how it stores information through the interaction of those pinheads with the discs. It resembles the function of a vinyl player. These pinheads will go out of alignment sometimes in the future. I  suspect that what happened to my PC hard drive.I am pretty confident about the material covered this week. The quiz was pretty simple. However, I should review the material last week on binary numbers. I don't think i can wrap my head around that smoothly yet.