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We are nearing the end of the year! It is the last week of school. Last week we compared life with and without computers, and analyzed how it has changed things such as the workforce. I found this to be an interesting topic, as we are a generation who has typically grown up with computers. We do not really know what it was like to work without computers. It is a completely different lifestyle compared to several generations ago. We also learned about how networks are interconnected by gateways. We learned that browser sessions require trust both from the party that is accessing a website and the party that is providing the website or information to the other party. I enjoyed last weeks lectures. I am currently working on project 2, however I am finding it a bit difficult. I am also starting to review for the exam. I'm not sure what is going to be on it or how hard it will be but hopefully it isn't too bad!

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Last week we completed the third part of our Wikipedia assignment. It went a lot better than I had expected. It took me a while to get used to everything, and to make sure that I was doing everything correctly. However, Wikipedia has very clear and easy to follow instructions on how to edit the different articles. This made my task a lot easier! I read over the how to sections on Wikipedia, and I contributed by editing the spelling, punctuation, and grammar of some articles. I also added citations to material that was not sourced, and removed some unsourced material. I had to change my articles from the original ones that I was going to use because they had already been edited and no longer had the banner that said they needed work. Overall I learned a lot from this assignment. It was interesting to explore the Wikipedia community, as it was something that I have never attempted before.

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Last week we had our second test! I found it quite a bit more difficult than the first one. I unfortunately missed the class on binary numbers so I got confused on that section of the test. I think I did decently on the other parts, however it is hard to tell! We didn't have a tutorial Friday morning so I got to sleep in! :) Today we did an exercise sheet. We learned a little bit more about recursion. At first glance I was very confused and did not really understand how to break down the equations and figure out the questions, but as the Professor went over them it became a lot clearer and easier to locate the patterns within. Most of the work in this course appears to be extremely complex, and almost impossible to figure out, however it becomes a lot easier once you take a close look at the question. I am going to complete the tutorial handout that the Professor assigned for this week, so hopefully I will do well on Friday's quiz!