Womack Report

Meeting tonight.  Some discussion of adapting the class schedule. (more…)

Talking about Jack Welch today. (more…)

Interesting start.  Class was overfull, so they split it in two.  Doesn’t change anything for me. (more…)

Talking about data structures today.  Attendance still dwindling. (more…)

Getting started in this drawing class. I’m really looking forward to this class. Two women have showed up early, along with me.

Class starts at 9:00 AM.  I actually showed up at 8:30, because I thought 8:30 was the correct start time.  No harm done.

Class was overall fun.  Did a few rough drawings.  We did the upside-down drawing exercise from the book.  I was way too slow completing it.  Made sure I was faster on the later drawings.

Drawing can be very frustrating.  I draw a line, and look at it, and it’s clearly wrong.  All too often, however, I when I see it wrong I still don’t know how to fix it.  Seems to be mostly a perspective issue.  I’m OK with messing up; that’s normal.  It’s very strange not to have any idea how to fix it, though.

Very low attendance today.  Six people.  Maybe a few more will show up, but attendance has been steadily dwindling as the class progressed.  Probably because most of us have some programming experience and aren’t getting much out of the class.  To be honest, I’ve considered not showing up.  I just think that’s a bad habit to get into.  More on functions and procedures today.

Got my second program turned in.  100 on it, although I probably missed a few points and made them up on extra credit.  New homework assignment was put up on WebCT.  Due next week.

Latest program is due tomorrow night.  Talking about strings today.

Went to Fry’s to get some stuff to help me fix Brandyburg’s and the Chamberlains’ computers.  Should make the process a bit easier.  I found a cheap HD enclosure for laptop drives, which will hopefully allow me to pull the data from Brandyburg’s old machine without having to install it in my machine and get it to a bootable state.  Dealing with the Chamberlains’ PC is going to be a matter of backing up and reformatting, same as before.  I have a few more CDRs in case I need them.  I may cheat and use Brandyburg’s hard drive as a temporary storage location after saving his data, so that I can move their giant media files.  Depends on how large his drive is, and how much space he has free.

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Talking about text boxes today.  Program due soon.  Already did my homework for tomorrow. (more…)

Talking about Chapter 4 today.  Some confusion about what material we’ve already covered and what we have not yet covered.

On the bright side, my textbook came in the mail today.  Seems to be brand new.  I like it.  Way cheaper to buy through Amazon, good book condition, didn’t take too long to arrive.

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Getting started up again, a bit late.  Some discussion of the calculator interface program due tomorrow night.  Then we’re talking variables. (more…)