CS50 Week 1 (01/11/2020)

This weekend, I nearly forgot that I wanted to dedicate my weekends to CS50 if my other (more imperative) assignments are in pretty good shape. To be frank, I think this week has been really unproductive. I had my period and I had a terrible menstrual cramp. I took 6 tablets of Panadol Menstrual overall, though normally I only took 2 or 4 to ease the pain. So, for one of the days, I really did not do much. As for the other days, I did something, but I wasn't pushing myself to do as much work as I should. I took more breaks and these breaks were a bit longer than they should, sometimes extending to more than an hour. I also did more drawing than I should, I guess.

So for next week, I hope I can improve on my time management because ideally, I would like to finish my Master's research proposal ASAP, get feedback ASAP, and begin collecting data ASAP. On the other hand, I feel like I am procrastinating a lot because I "have a lot of free time" since I'm only doing one module this semester and I have the research coming along. That's one of the reasons why I decided to restart doing CS50, to have more intellectually stimulating things to do. But at the same time, doing all of this is not occupying enough of my time (so far since the semester just started anyway), so I have a feeling that I may become better at time management if I work part-time. Ugh~ but I'm not sure whether I should work when my proposal is still blank pages. So I'm kinda procrastinating the work part too!!!

But on Sunday afternoon, I felt like I should work on CS50 Week 1 because I have a feeling that I will neglect CS50 altogether if I skipped doing it this week. Eventually, I did CS50.

Alhamdulillah, I managed to finish all the exercises for Week 1. I think the exercises are similar to those that I've done before (I chose to do the easy ones like before, too, since I'm not confident that I can take on the harder ones). There's a really small change to the exercises, and I think that's it. But funny enough, I still had to do a lot of thinking and try-an-error before I eventually get the codes right. 

Progress so far. Nice to know that we still have the choice to do easier ones or harder ones, depending on our comfortability.

My personal scribbles for one of the problems in Problem Set 1

Alright, now that that's put aside, I can go on to the next week without any regrets. Let's hope for the best! Ganbatte!