Slog for Week 1 and Week 2

    For Week 1 and Week 2, the professor Larry Zhang went over the concepts of precision, problem solving and quantifiers, sentences, statements, predicates, and implications. Generally the lecture in Week 1 was not that difficult, because the way to solving problems and quantifiers such as universal quantification and existential quantification are the concepts I already used to it from my mathematical experience.
    However, the lecture I had in this week was not easy as the lecture in Week 1. Even though the part of 'quantifiers as claims about sets' was quite understandable since most of quantifiers are shown in Mathematic quite often, predicates and implications were terribly confusing concepts that were brand new for me. Firstly, I could not understand why does the example sentence, "x is a prerequisite of y" become to P(x,y). Secondly, I struggled to finding P and Q in the everyday language sentences, which the professor went over during lecture 2.3. First half of sentences were not that difficult although rest of them were really confusing. For example, from the sentence, "I will go only if you insist," I do not get why 'I will go' is P but not Q. In my way, I considered 'you insist' as Q because 'If you insist, then I will go' seems right rather than 'If I will go, then you insist.' Lastly, in equivalence, it was challenged to get the concepts the meanings of signs => (which means P only if Q ) and <= (which means P if Q).
    In order to overcome these difficulties, I have read the course notes that are relevant to content of lecture slides, and search additional information related to concepts throughout the internet, of course using reliable sources from university websites such as lecture notes from other universities. Also I found more examples of each concepts, especially predicates and implications, which are the hardest part I am struggling to.
    From the lectures of Week 1 and Week 2, I now decide to read the lecture notes prior to each lecture, and print the lecture slides before the lecture too. Listening lecture with some background knowledge from lecture notes might be helpful to understand the materials better, so that I will definitely do that from next week.