Week 1
Every week I will be writing here about my experiences in the course CSC 104. Having never done programming before, the first feeling I got when introduced to the Dr. Racket program was confused and excited, as I didn't know what to expect. Learning what algorithms are in the first week was also memorable, especially the paper folding example and its limitations (it becomes harder and harder after every fold).
One thing which I found really interesting about Dr. Racket was that it can easily perform tasks on a pasted image. I thought that I can use the program in the future to perform basic image manipulation tasks faster than using paint or photoshop sometimes, such as making a simple 2012 banner with different pictures.
With the above individual pictures, I used Dr. Racket to combine into a 2013 Banner with one line: (beside [2] [0] [1] [3]). The banner turned out like this-
