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Another Semester in the Bag

Administrator — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:21:45 +0000

Two hours and 15 minutes after starting there were still at least 18 people (including myself) still working on our computer science final. As was the case with the mid-term I found myself really starting to get into the groove after 2 hours of work and wished I had had at least 30 more minutes to continue working. Alas, we were left frantically uploading our final to the school’s server lest we not get any credit. I wonder: if 90% of your students don’t finish the final exam, are your students unprepared or is the test too difficult? Or maybe a little of both?

I wonder how I’ll fare grade wise. Only one of my procedures was working as required. Two others looked to me as if they should have been working, but I couldn’t debug them into working order. Another I didn’t even try to touch after the initial coding because my answer was too complicated and my knowledge of the procedures involved too lacking. The last part of the last problem was incomplete not from lack of coding skill but lack of problem solving skill as I could not figure out what, precisely, the question was asking me to do.

But it’s over now. No more C211 and it’s lovely Scheme to wrangle. Java and Calculus II await me next semester. Oh, and working 40+ hours/week. Gonna be a busy semester.

Good Grieg

Administrator — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:56:03 +0000

Time for some Grieg:

Dear God

Administrator — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:28:46 +0000

An Assignment for C211

Administrator — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:41:35 +0000

So we’re supposed to create some sort of elementary web page for C211. My blog here is running on wordpress and I’m using a wordpress theme that I’ve hacked just a little bit to get it more to my taste (the original orange from the theme was not working for me).

So since I didn’t actually create the look of this page myself, here is something I did throw together very quickly.

If only all the Scheme assignments were that easy.

Espagnole

Administrator — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:51:50 +0000

I think someone needs to create an awesome animation for this piece:

Expensive Bits

Administrator — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:39:58 +0000

My new AT&T plan is the cheapest family plan they have. I do not want to pay extra to send text messages and I don’t want to pay extra for a data plan. So if I were to send and/or recieve data through the phone anyways, AT&T will charge me $10.24 per megabyte I transfer. At that rate, it would have cost me around $5,900 to transfer the amount of data I did last month on my home internet connection.

Damn

Enthusiasm

Administrator — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:25:45 +0000

Just a little food for thought:

According to wikipedia:

Enthusiasm originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god.

And I might be mistaken here, but I believe it is taken from the greek entheos, which literally means ‘the god within’. Puts a different spin on the word, methinks.

Sibelius’ Third Symphony

Administrator — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:30:50 +0000

You know, I haven’t listened to a great piece in 3 in a while. The 2nd movement from Sibelius’ Third Symphony has so many great moments. This recording by the Halle Orchestra

Carl Sagan on Skepticism and Wonder

Administrator — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:05:01 +0000

An interesting read:

Carl Sagan on Skepticism and Wonder

Bagpipe Anyone?

Administrator — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:37:00 +0000

Yeah, thought so