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It’s been over a year since graduation, and we’ve finally agreed on a workable idea for our programming project (in the making since, ummm, years ago). No further details until I’m sure we’re not just imagining that we have something workable.

The first thought I had when I looked at our Wiki site with our first task was “Holy shit, this reminds me of Stanford CS classes” — (a) I had no idea how to begin, (b) I’m way behind everyone else on this one, having missed a couple of discussion sessions, (c) I probably won’t start on it till the (unspecified) deadline, and (d) whoever posted it called it “Assignment 1.”

Really, though, it’d be good to do some programming other than mindless PHP/MySQL bludgeoning for the web and trial-and-error VBA at work.

Anyway, a favourite Fox Trot strip from a while back:

He even includes stdio.h!

On occasion, I do get worried I’ll lose touch of the geeky programming side of me (vaguely developed as it was by my pseudo-CS track within my EE degree) as I stray farther from my field of study, but it’s good to know that I’ve actually managed to learn quite some computer-related tech know-how even in the SAF (even though it’s all Microsoft-based, yech), and I’m probably going to teach something geeky or another when I do start work.

Anyway, this one’s from Sunday. I should keep it for a future Physics lesson if I do end up teaching that.

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