Section 4, due on September 12

1. More new notation! It's exciting at intimidating at the same time. I really feel like I'm learning a new language. I thought the difference between an open sentence and a statement seemed... particularly semantic to me... and I didn't really understand the importance of the distinction but I think I get it now. Also, it seems difficult to encode English sentences into math symbols. Often the math is a round about way of saying what seems so straight forward in English.

2. I really like the connections that I'm making between math and coding. A lot of the coding syntax comes straight from math syntax. For instance, the use of functions and the use of open sentences. I think I'm just grateful for the similarities between them and that they are so cohesive.  Also, iterative notation (like summations) and for loops are very similar and I had difficulty really understanding the notation until I had some programming experience. Very cool!