Guest Lecturer and Python

Today's lecture was particularly interesting and enjoyful, especially after a long night of assignments and studying. The guest lecturer, Nick, was quite entertaining to say the least. Though I would have liked more material to be covered over the course of the lecture, it was fun, overall. The concepts from today's lecture was easily grasped since many of us have programmed prior to taking the course and so learning about preconditions and postconditions wasn't something new though I never really knew that there was such thing as indicating a postcondition. Is this written in the code? Or is it just to give the programmer a way of assessing whether what they were trying to program was actually successful as accomplishing its task. Nick briefly spoke about crashing programs and how we would perhaps, get the chance to learn that at some point in our undergraduate years. That should be interesting! =)

On another note, Python. When I took CSC148, we were still learning Java so the conversion to Python in most of the lecture material is a lot more difficult. I just took a look at the newest problem set that's due on Monday, and it's all in Python! One of the questions in the assignment is also in Python. I'm going to have to spend a lot of time trying to understand what each command does. =( Hopefully, it won't be much too difficult but I really should get on those assignments. I can't believe there are so many assignments due at the same time from nearly every class!