NTU Y1S1, Week 9 In Review

Random Quotes Of The Week:

"Who has no father?"
- Dr Leung (Lecture on Trees)

"If you don't use an IDE, you may not have the time to party."
- Dr Leung (On using IDE for coding)

"X square plus 1 is the anti-derivative! X square plus 2, is also the anti-derivative!"
"X Square plus 100, also anti-derivative! X square plus 0.000001, also anti-derivative!
- Dr Qian (Lecture on Anti-Derivative)

"Prime~Prime!"
- Dr Qian (Random moment in lecture)

"Whether you can find it or not... it depends on your luck."
- Dr Shi (Lecture on Hamilton Circuit)

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In The Class:

Computer Systems
Algorithms... Database... nothing much going on...


Logic Design
The tutorials are getting really really tough... Labs also.

Everything. Everything.


Data Structures Programming
Finally! Something new, something useful!

It's Trees!

We all love climbing trees.

Kids love climbing trees, monkeys love climbing trees.

Even Maths teachers love climbing trees.

Yep.

They climb "TrigonomeTrees".


Discrete Maths
This subject never fails to surprise me...

The "Ps and Qs", which I initially thought was the most difficult concept ever, is now actually the easiest portion of this subject.

If Maths is "80% practice and 20%" IQ, then Discrete Maths is "20% practice and 80% IQ".

Seriously, just look the Pigeonhole Principle... the concept can be understood by any 5 year old kid, but to actually apply it (to really challenging problems) require a genius-mind.

That tutorial nearly drove me nuts. No ordinary man could have possibly seen through how to classify the pigeons and pigeonholes.


Foundation Maths
A mathematician went insane and believed that he was the differentiation operator. His friends had him placed in a mental hospital until he got better. All day he would go around frightening the other patients by staring at them and saying "I differentiate you!"

The guy gets on a bus and starts threatening everybody: "I'll integrate you! I'll differentiate you!!!" So everybody gets scared and runs away.

One day he met a new patient; and true to form he stared at him and said "I differentiate you!", but for once, his victim's expression didn't change. Surprised, the mathematician marshalled his energies, stared fiercely at the new patient and said loudly "I differentiate you!", but still the other man had no reaction.

Finally, in frustration, the mathematician screamed out "I DIFFERENTIATE YOU!" -- at which point the new patient calmly looked up and said, "You can differentiate me all you like: I'm e to the x."