Forth SLOG -- Advices for future fellow students
The course is about to finish and I feel like I have learned a lot. For fellow students that are planning to take this course in the future, I think I can give a few advises helping them perform better in the future. First, this course is actually mainly about using functions. It’s like learning another language and the function is the grammar of the language, they are the rules we need to follow in order to communicate with the computer. With the proper functions, we can build simple programs of our own. My advice on building a function would be considering them like functions in math. You are putting an input and trying to get a new output by using your function as the operation. So for complicated functions, you can break them down into little steps and they build them into a big function. And don’t be afraid to make mistakes because Dr. Racket would show you how you went wrong. Second, the course is about learning how to use a language for programming and during class, the prof