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CS371P #14

2011-12-022011-12-02 by mike

Oops, one more blog. *this is the last one. Today was the last day of the semester. Took the final test today. I found it to be shorter than exam 2, which helped. I was able to finish the test and go back over and check for mistakes. I’m sure I did well enough. I’ve […]

CS371P #13

2011-11-282011-11-28 by mike

Last week of the semester and this is the last blog. I did manage to get quite a bit of studying done over the break though not as much as I had hoped. This my first semester back to school has been an interesting and fun experience. I’ve learned quite a bit of C++ that […]

CS371P #12, summary of git observations

2011-11-182011-11-18 by mike

As requested here is a summary of my git observations after having used it a little this Fall semester 2011. Disclaimer: I have only minimal experience with git and yet here I am writing up an evaluation – reader beware. There may well be functionality in git that address these issues that I do not […]

CS371P #11

2011-11-132011-11-13 by mike

Only 3 weeks left in this my first semester back. After this I only have 2 classes left to have my BSCS (a math and a physics) which I began in 1980. I was this close 20 years ago (after leaving campus, working for a while then going back to school the first time). But […]

CS371P #10

2011-11-062011-11-06 by mike

Time flies when having fun. Only 4 weeks left in my first semester back in school. It’s been fun in every way. A little more challenging than I expected. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to go back to school. Most people don’t get the chance even if they want to. It was interesting […]

Agile Software Development

2011-11-022011-11-02 by mike

When I was last employed the Agile movement was just getting started and I didn’t hear about it until probably the mid 2000s. I haven’t really experienced Agile development in a formal sense. But it was happening all the while without us realizing that it needed a name. Since then I’ve been hearing about it, […]

CS371P #9

2011-10-302011-10-30 by mike

Yet another computer science figure passed away; John McCarthy, the computer scientist who coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1955, and founder of LISP died Monday at age 84. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29 Apparently exam 2 was tougher than I thought. Actually I don’t think it was hard or tough. “Obviously” I am an awesome software engineer but […]

CS371P #8

2011-10-232011-10-23 by mike

RIP Dr. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie On exam 1 I was finished in 30 mins and had the remaining time to go back over my answers. For me exam 2 was a little long. I just made my first pass through it when time was up. I didn’t have time to go back over my answers […]

CS371P #7

2011-10-162011-10-16 by mike

I enjoyed last weeks article on Object Oriented Design. I’ve previously read about those two parts of our brain and the differing functions, but I never read that they can disagree or even conflict. That’s a bit of a revelation and good food for thought as well as further study. Starting to study for round […]

CS371P #6

2011-10-092011-10-09 by mike

More git notes: Noticed a couple things about git. For one, I found that in order to get branches pushed up to your repo you’ve got to add an extra option “git push –all”. I was assuming that doing a “git push” would push everything, but it doesn’t. As I’m turning in each project I […]