Week 3

Usually, I don't like group work because the random selection of members results in many incompatibilities.  With assignment 1, I was able to choose to work with people I knew I would not have any conflicts with.  My group members and I have similar work habits and all participate equally in group discussions.  As a result we were able to create a rough copy of the answers after two hours of concentrated work.  We plan to finish the assignment after our tutorial on Tuesday.

In lecture this week, we covered the rules of Boolean algebra and were introduced to truth tables.  The problems started out fairly straightforward, but the tutorial exercises were nothing like the examples.  I decided to solve the tutorial exercises using truth tables because it was the more familiar option.  However, in tutorial, it became clear to me that using Boolean algebra was faster and the better approach for more complex problems.  Although truth tables are more straightforward and are valid approaches to solving the problems, as more variables are added, the truth tables get larger and the likelihood of making an error and the time it takes to solve the problem increases.