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| New Skin, New Classes |
| January 26th, 2010 at 3:39 AM |
Yeah, new skin. Same layout as the old skin but not red, and not fixed-width font. I'm not sure I like this better, but it does have some nice improvements.
So, a new semester is upon me. With work and all, I'm taking a lighter courseload -- just 14 hours of classes:- CS 440: Software Engineering I
- CS 473: Compiler Design
- ECON 121: Macroeconomics
- EAES 101: Intro to Earth Science
CS 440 is more about diagrams and documentation than programming, which might suck. Other than that, it's like CS 340, but in groups. Same prof even (John Bell for those who know). One big project that matures over the semester. When I took 340, I ended up with a 6000 line Java and C++ adventure game program, which subsequently went on my resume and helped me get my current job.
CS 473 is what I'm really looking forward to. I have grand plans to develop a groundbreaking C compiler with super secret technology of my own design, so this class will provide me with the necessary knowledge to do hard-core compiler work (hopefully). I'm already learning how to do parsing properly, and it's been an interesting exercise to thoroughly analyze the skin parsing code for this site, which I wrote in high school when I knew nothing about formal parsing theory, and see what I got right. Surprisingly, I got quite a bit of it right. w00t!
EAES 101 is about rocks and stuff. Sleepytime. Actually, we got into global weather patterns today, which was pretty interesting. But mostly this class is about rocks, so I struggle to stay awake. However, it has possibly the easiest lab section ever, and it fulfills my lab sci requirement, so SCORE.
ECON 121 is turning out to be a fascinating class. The professor is one of the most enthusiastic teachers I've ever had, which is very good because our textbook and the subject matter in general are quite dry. I'm really getting into this course. Who knows, maybe I'll learn enough to become a brilliant economist and make a killing in the stock market. Yeah right. Very useful knowledge nonetheless.
That's about all I've got. Things at work are mostly super-secret right now, so I won't broach that subject, but I'll just say that I'm having a good amount of fun, so Good Times.
_WRF
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