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    Sample Reflection #1: Worthy of Full Marks

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    The student learned how to declare variables of different types, perform arithmetic calculations, and accept user input. They found casting data types confusing initially but now feel confident using it. They also had to practice using the modulus operator. The student found it interesting that computers cannot store floating-point numbers accurately, which can lead to inaccuracies. It is best to convert floats to integers before calculations to prevent errors from imprecise floating-point storage. Using the modulus operator to get the remainder after division not only keeps cents accurate, but also streamlines the calculation compared to dividing and subtracting remainders.

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    Sample Reflection #1: Worthy of Full Marks

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    The student learned how to declare variables of different types, perform arithmetic calculations, and accept user input. They found casting data types confusing initially but now feel confident using it. They also had to practice using the modulus operator. The student found it interesting that computers cannot store floating-point numbers accurately, which can lead to inaccuracies. It is best to convert floats to integers before calculations to prevent errors from imprecise floating-point storage. Using the modulus operator to get the remainder after division not only keeps cents accurate, but also streamlines the calculation compared to dividing and subtracting remainders.

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    The student learned how to declare variables of different types, perform arithmetic calculations, and accept user input. They found casting data types confusing initially but now feel confident using it. They also had to practice using the modulus operator. The student found it interesting that computers cannot store floating-point numbers accurately, which can lead to inaccuracies. It is best to convert floats to integers before calculations to prevent errors from imprecise floating-point storage. Using the modulus operator to get the remainder after division not only keeps cents accurate, but also streamlines the calculation compared to dividing and subtracting remainders.

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    Sample Reflection #1: Worthy of Full Marks

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    The student learned how to declare variables of different types, perform arithmetic calculations, and accept user input. They found casting data types confusing initially but now feel confident using it. They also had to practice using the modulus operator. The student found it interesting that computers cannot store floating-point numbers accurately, which can lead to inaccuracies. It is best to convert floats to integers before calculations to prevent errors from imprecise floating-point storage. Using the modulus operator to get the remainder after division not only keeps cents accurate, but also streamlines the calculation compared to dividing and subtracting remainders.

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    SAMPLE REFLECTION #1: WORTHY OF FULL MARKS

    Name: Full name here


    Student Number: #########
    Email: [email protected]
    Section: XXX
    Workshop: 2 (at-home) Reflection

    In this workshop I learned how to declare variables of different types and


    how to apply arithmetic calculations using those variables. I also learned
    how to accept user input using the standard input output library function
    "scanf". I found casting one data type to another confusing at first, but
    now feel confident using this feature. I also had to spend some extra time
    practicing how to use the modulus operator.

    I thought it was very interesting to learn that computers can't store


    floating-point types accurately. Some numbers can only be approximate at
    best which can lead to some major inaccuracies in data if not managed
    properly. Dealing with this was difficult. The printf function will round
    to the precision you specify so you will think things are fine because it
    displays correctly, but the actual stored value is not necessarily precise.
    Now I understand why this workshop forces us to convert to integer using the
    lowest coin denomination in cents and using integer division with the modulus
    operator.

    It is a best practice to convert floats/doubles to integers before performing


    arithmetic operations in order to prevent cumulative errors (imprecision)
    caused when storing floating point values in exponential mode in system
    memory. To convert float/double types to integer, you need to apply casting
    (or rely on coercion which does the conversion automatically). Once you have
    what you need converted to integer types, you can perform calculations with
    more accuracy and not worry about decimal precision errors.

    With this in mind, using the modulus operator to obtain the remainder not
    only keeps our cents remaining accurate, but it also streamlines the
    calculation to one line of code rather than 2 (have to divide, store the
    result, then subtract the result from the original value). The modulus
    operator however is only applicable to integral data types.
    SAMPLE REFLECTION #2: MINIMUM REQUIRMENTS

    Name: Full name here


    Student Number: #########
    Email: [email protected]
    Section: XXX
    Workshop: 2 (at-home) Reflection

    In this workshop I learned how to convert back and forth between numeric
    variables, float to int, and int to float. I also learned how to use scanf to
    read user input, and that the scanf function requires the type of the value
    to be read (format specifier), and the address of the destination variable in
    order to be able to store the user input.

    It is a best practice to convert floats to integers before performing


    arithmetic operations in order to prevent cumulative errors (imprecision)
    caused when storing floating point values in exponential mode in system
    memory.

    The modulus operator allows us to extract the remainder of an integer


    division operation in one step and is faster than subtracting the result of
    division from the original value.

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