1 - Why Do Geeks Need To Know How To Write?

Many people underestimate the power of putting your thoughts down on paper. Although many math-oriented students want to avoid essay-writing by taking math and science courses, writing can also help with these courses. By simply writing your thoughts down, your mind begins to think more clearly about what it is being written about, causing you to write more and more. This, in turn, can help with clearing out muddled thoughts about a problem, such as figuring out how to solve an integral, or understanding where a bug could be in your code.

Scientists use it all of the time when researching and creating experiments. They write down their problem, possible solutions to solve this problem, and eventually get to the answer they have been seeking. Writing helps you track what you've discovered, what other problems you may have and may eventually lead to solving the problem at hand.

Writing is so important in math and science, which is why I find keeping a log in CSC148 very unique and different in a science course. I find the idea of keeping a log of sorts as the weeks progress very interesting because I have not seen it in any other math or science course so far.

That being said, the first few weeks of CSC148 have been going swell. This week, we extended our knowledge of different methods in a class and what we can do to enhance our classes. We also learned about inheritance, where when we are making another class, we can take whatever another class can do by inheriting it into the new class. It is very helpful, especially when you're adding different classes that you want to do similar, but different things.