In the lecture for languages and alphabets, I actually found that I understood it quite well. I had limited experience with them before, and it was very interesting to learn it in a classroom setting. Building the automaton was a bit confusing at first, but once I took the time to look over the notes and understand it, it didn't seem as difficult anymore. Plus the word automaton reminds me of the movie Hugo, which I enjoyed, haha.
The thing I like the most and find the most interesting right now, however, is making the float machines and drawing the diagrams. It's so fascinating to me, although I still find it a bit hard. Once again, in one of the tutorials, the examples we took up seemed pretty straightforward and I was feeling pretty confident in it, and I understood it. Then the quiz was much harder and unclear and I had no idea how to draw the machine. It rather dampened my mood, but I hope that I will be able to attend some office hours this week to get help with the third assignment.
Regular expressions are also very interesting, and I like how they overlap a bit with CSC207. It is cool how they are similar in the two classes, but also very different in terms of the syntax. I found it amazing that Danny asked the class for a regular expression for a particular situation and people were able to answer him right away with an idea of what it was, and they were either almost right or in fact correct. I have no idea how people can think of these things so quickly and so well, but I think they will go far in life. My hope is that with a bit of practice and a week of trying, I will have figured out A3 and be able to hand something in that might be correct. We shall see!
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