week 7

This is exam week. 

I am feeling disappointed at myself after taking the test one. I think test is a good way for us to review all things that we already learnt. To prepare for the test1, I spend most of my time figuring out all example codes, which the professor talked about during the lecture. Sometimes it is tricky that I have no clue about why such thing won’t compile, or why this variable will be printed out. Even though the professor explained it clearly in class, time is not enough for me to write down everything. As a result, I tend to forget many things. So the first lesson for me, is to review what is discussed everyday after the lecture. It won’t take too much time, but will definitely help me to have a better understanding and memory about it.

Another lesson I need to teach myself is that, during the preparation of test, we need to figure out exactly every point that is included in the outline. You cannot say that you seem to understand what it is. Even though you are just a bit confused, you will find the confusing point will occur in the test and make you feel uncomfortable. For example, in test one, I failed to provide the right answer to issues about allocator and deallocator. I thought I understood it and didn’t spend any further time on it. 

The last lesson is that, comparing to many tricky and confusing points, we need to spend more time on fundamentals. The test one, in fact, is not difficult at all. It is all basic knowledge and the professor spent enough time talking about. We cannot ignore it because of its simplicity. We shall have a big picture in our mind about the fundamentals. What it is, and how it is used, for what. Start from basic to a further step, rather than think how to write as many tricky rules as possible to the sheet that we could bring in to test. In fact, I didn’t even see it once during this test. I won’t spend too much time preparing the sheet next time.