1. What was the most difficult part of the material for you?
Because I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on classes, this section felt pretty natural to me. There is one thing that does make me nervous, and it is the "new notation." I feel worried that they are dropping the brackets and by saying 4+1=0 should be enough indication to know we're in Z_5. I kind of understand wanting to make it simple, maybe it's too much work to write [4]+[1]=[0], but you don't even need to press the shift button to make the bracket, so I think that if there is too much back and forth between integers and classes I'll get annoyed and probably make silly mistakes.
2. What is the most interesting to you?
I'm not going to lie, I think the addition and times tables are pretty fascinating. At first I was curious why they were different sizes between Z_3, Z_5 and Z_6, but then I laughed when I woke up and realized why. So, I like that they are "limited" and not infinite, and I think the patterns are pretty interesting. But also, I love the idea of additive and multiplicative inverses and how they translate from integers into classes here.
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