The week 4 lecture was ok. Well, at least the first two hours were. The stuff about recursive functions and the Fibonacci numbers was pretty interesting. The Fibonacci pattern (the one with the sum of the first n numbers) was pretty easy to guess, especially since Prof. Heap had posted it in his blog a few days before the Thursday lecture.
In the third hour it became very hard for me to pay attention, but I think I'm getting better in this respect (two weeks ago I spaced out after just one hour).
At some point, when we were proving the time complexity of the recursive binary search, the lecture became slow and the class was not contributing at all. And then Prof. Heap stopped talking for about 10 minutes. I thought we had angered him (it reminded me very much of a lecture in first year where no one had done the required reading, and the professor got very disappointed and dismissed us all). I felt really bad. Then, it turned out that we were supposed to be jotting down our attempts at solving a problem, like usual. I had not been doing anything, and so I felt even worse.
These evening sessions are killing me.
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That's priceless. What if it were the other way around: I'm wondering why everybody is looking down, scratching on paper, and possibly talking to the person beside them. I'm thinking I've lost my chain of thought, but it turns out that I've just given everybody an exercise to work on.
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