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Jul. 28th, 2004 01:32 am- One day, assuming I end up as a CS professor, everybody will like my class and nobody will have issues staying awake. It will be entertaining and engaging and totally understandable, even if I'm (for whatever bizarre reason) teaching algorithms. I will dance and sing and juggle and throw things at the class, and more importantly, I will explain things and their purposes really clearly, and if it looks like people didn't understand, I will try again.
- Two of the three exams for this semester are out of the way, which is terribly nice... there's only cs4210 left, and I'm not super-worried about that, although more review between now and then is definitely on the way...
- The theory exam was really quite scary at first. I says to Sean![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
schizobovine, as we're sitting down, "This is one of those situations where you don't have to outrun the dragon -- you just have to be faster than the slowest hobbit." He replied, "Yes, but this is a very hungry dragon." ... and when the test was handed out, it took me a while to find a problem that I could answer. After I got in the groove, there was a ... non-vacuous, if not correct... response for almost all of the questions... so I think we're okay for that class. It really /does/ need to be taught as two classes (right now, we have a required overview class that's half about automata and half about algorithms, and they're splitting it into two...). And Sean, in his earlier entry which some of you can't read, is spot-on in saying that there needs to be some notational revision in the theory-textbook world... also, teaching theory should be more than just writing proofs up on the board... :-\
- HCI yesterday was pretty silly, and I wrote rather a lot about my feelings about the class on the "how do you feel about this class?" sheet that was handed out... I wonder how much they'll pay attention to my feedback.
- IUMA is terribly, terribly interesting. On one end, you have awesome stuff that you'd never have known about, like Ni Voz Ni Voto ("neither voice nor vote"), which is a Peruvian metal-ish band that rocks really hard, and on the other hand, you've got Bio Killaz 666, who are a disturbingly white hip-hop outfit out of Michigan (not that there's anything wrong with either whiteness or Michigan, and I honor their urge to make hip-hop...) who are... perhaps somewhat less impressive? But the important thing is that there's more music out there that you haven't heard of yet, and a lot of it is Really Good! Make use of the Internet!!
- Cool people are cool :) Yay for cool people. I'm almost on my summer break. Yay for summer break.
- Two of the three exams for this semester are out of the way, which is terribly nice... there's only cs4210 left, and I'm not super-worried about that, although more review between now and then is definitely on the way...
- The theory exam was really quite scary at first. I says to Sean
schizobovine, as we're sitting down, "This is one of those situations where you don't have to outrun the dragon -- you just have to be faster than the slowest hobbit." He replied, "Yes, but this is a very hungry dragon." ... and when the test was handed out, it took me a while to find a problem that I could answer. After I got in the groove, there was a ... non-vacuous, if not correct... response for almost all of the questions... so I think we're okay for that class. It really /does/ need to be taught as two classes (right now, we have a required overview class that's half about automata and half about algorithms, and they're splitting it into two...). And Sean, in his earlier entry which some of you can't read, is spot-on in saying that there needs to be some notational revision in the theory-textbook world... also, teaching theory should be more than just writing proofs up on the board... :-\- HCI yesterday was pretty silly, and I wrote rather a lot about my feelings about the class on the "how do you feel about this class?" sheet that was handed out... I wonder how much they'll pay attention to my feedback.
- IUMA is terribly, terribly interesting. On one end, you have awesome stuff that you'd never have known about, like Ni Voz Ni Voto ("neither voice nor vote"), which is a Peruvian metal-ish band that rocks really hard, and on the other hand, you've got Bio Killaz 666, who are a disturbingly white hip-hop outfit out of Michigan (not that there's anything wrong with either whiteness or Michigan, and I honor their urge to make hip-hop...) who are... perhaps somewhat less impressive? But the important thing is that there's more music out there that you haven't heard of yet, and a lot of it is Really Good! Make use of the Internet!!
- Cool people are cool :) Yay for cool people. I'm almost on my summer break. Yay for summer break.
