Uni Blog Week 10
Last updated: 12 hours, 53 minutes ago
Intro
This week is insane, but not because of school. My wife has been home most of the week and wow forever takes up so much time!
Project Management (Monday Morning)
Lecture
No class, professor claims its reading break even though that doesn't start till Wednesday.
Assignments
No Assignments but there is a project being released next week.
Operating Systems (Monday Afternoon)
Lecture
I chose not to go to class this week. Read the slides though. Lots on the topic of Semaphores and conditional variables and the like. Basically just how process blocks work and how we get around them.
Assignments
Released an assignment about race conditions and Semaphores, and seems fairly straight forward. This is now done.
Data Communications (Tuesday Afternoon)
Lecture
A quiz and a lecture about IP addressing and conversion to binary. Barely paid attention and had to leave about halfway through to parent my child.
Assignments
New assignment with questions from the textbook again.
Project
Have not been working on this.
Extreme Programming (Thursday Afternoon)
Lecture
No class this week due to the reading break, so glad for that.
Assignments
None this week
Project
The project is now done and I prolly will have nothing further to say on it. I don't think it was very hard to do. My group mate did most of the work in my opinion and she did it well. I can't be sure but I figure she used AI to make most of the report and prolly most of the code. For my part, I just had to do a Top-K algorithm. Which is really easy, its just the top 3 or top however many the user chooses. I needed to pass CLI args to the Python, test for invalid inputs, sort in order, secondary alpha sort for tie breakers, and write UnitTests. It was all very simple and I did not feel it was worthy of a 4th year term project.
Personal Things
Been playing a lot of wow forever. Guild has got their first bank tab which is crazy exciting and crazy fast considering we did that in a week on a fresh server. I have so much reading, programming, and writing that I want to do though; I really need to limit my playtime. I have two Wandering Inn books that I want to read and I still need to finish Empire of the Damned.
Conclusion
I am impressed how little time education takes when I don't want to focus on it. :| But I am maintaining grades and getting away with playing. I just am not able to do much else that I want to do for funsies.
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