Saturday, 24 October 2020

Restarting my CS50 online course from SCRATCH (pun intended)

A few weeks ago, I had dinner with a group of friends from Taylor's College. They were mostly my friends on the IBDP course. One of them is currently working in a Computer Science-related job and she also told us that she used to learn some coding when she was in university. It made me feel a bit inferior to her (well, I've always felt inferior to her ever since that one teacher in IB compared me to her, and she said something along the line that this other person was better than me because of one thing that I didn't have) since I did try this one online CS course, but I only finished it halfway and just deserted it, until recently.

Flash forward to Oct 2020, it has been more than a year since I last did the course. As I was scrolling around the new course structure, I found out that I couldn't just send my old Problem Sets especially Problem Set 0 because the version that I did for the course year 2018 used an sb2 file, but the current file uses sb3 instead. Furthermore, the course outline also looks different from what I remember it to be.

At that point, I felt that I should just re-do everything as if I've never done it before.

Today, I watched the introductory lecture and did Problem Set 0. I have to admit, Alhamdulillah, that I took a shorter time to complete it despite coming up with a new idea and not just replicating the old stuff that I did back in 2018. Not that I was very familiar with SCRATCH by MIT, but maybe because I knew what is already expected of me and how I should approach a problem.

Problem Set 0, Complete! :D

That's it for now! Pray for me so that I do finish this course! Ganbarimasu!


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