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Oct/27 Weekly Blog, Week 6. (Parentheses) (Parentheses (Parentheses))

This week was about stacking defined images into a pattern called Sierpinski. I was unable to attend class this week, and I followed up with the lectures at home with the slides. I tried to do things ahead on my own, by peaking quickly below of the lecture .rkt and try to find my own answers first. I had some issues with creating a defined function to create 2 image beside each other with 1 on the top, named as 'stack'.  The issue I have is with the parentheses! Especially when they start to get little long. If you look around during our CSC finals exam  ( you really shouldn't if you are a student) and see someone counting along with their fingers tracing each open and closed parentheses, that would be me. Both of my hands are on the screen often to see if they all cover all expressions almost all the time. Even to the point that when my mom passed me by at the kitchen counter, she hinted that I should now realize that my laptop isn't touch screen. I
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Oct/6 Assignment 1. Response to csc104

Why did you choose CSC104? what do you hope to get out of the course? Both of my parents majored computer science, and I remember when I was little occasionally mom and dad would buy computer parts to upgrade our home computer instead of buying a new one. Although I hated this (since I wanted a brand new computer), I remember my parents  really enjoying their search for part through internet and offline stores. When my mom was told to get married or attend a nursing school, she refused to follow traditional female role of being a caretaker inside or outside the home and jumped into a field that was concentrated by men. However she excelled, and loved new technology that she continued to her masters where she has met my dad who was receiving honors and scholarships for his excellence. Given this type of family history, I was intrigued by computer science yet was overwhelmed by media representations and math/science was not my top subjects neither, so I never took the step to reall
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