Well, I officially graduated today. I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, awarded cum laude. I found out that that means “with honors”, for which I am pleased. Very pleased.
We had a graduation party this afternoon for Lauren and me. It was a 4 hour open-house event, with relatives and some family friends. I got a pretty good take in graduation gifts, too. Counting gift cards, and a check that was mailed to me by my grandfather, I got $525 of graduation gifts. I am flabbergasted. Cool, though.
I also got what is now a family heirloom. My mother said that her mother told her that though there were medals for athletics, there were none for academics, so she gave my mother a largish solid gold coin as a medal. Today my mother gave it to me. Pretty cool.
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I got in all of my grades today!
Biology 103: A
Chemistry 212: A
CS 475: A-
CS 480: A-
CS 498: A
Sweet! My cumulative GPA is 3.58. That’s pretty awesome. I will have to do a happy dance.
robin Robin, School
Well, I have gotten four of my five grades back. Pretty cool. I’ve gotten basically all As, although technically one was an A-. They are:
Biology 103: A
Chemistry 212: A
Concurrent Programming: A-
Independent Study: A
All I’m waiting for is the grade for my artificial intelligence class.
robin Robin, School
I just got back from my final exam for Biology 103. While I do not yet have the formal results, I have determined for myself that I will get an A in biology. I have gotten As on all of the exams, I have gotten perfect scores on the two selected quizzes, and I did rather well on the final.
Sweet.
robin Robin, School
Well, the time has come and gone. I just got home from my chemistry exam, and it went pretty decently. I didn’t do amazingly well on that test, but I did pretty well I think. Given that the teacher said that I was not expected to know everything on there, I think I’ll have a somewhat high score.
At the very least, I am now sure that I will get that B in chemistry that I wanted. Woohoo!
robin Robin, School
Well, I’ve spent the past two days studying like a fiend. I can honestly say I have never studied this hard this long before in my life. It’s been effective, which is nice, but it’s still a lot of work. I get to do more today, too. I’m heating up some breakfast (Harvest apples for the win!), and once that’s done it’s back to chemistry. I think I need some more work on the common-ion effect on solubility.
robin Robin, School
Well, I finished everything I was going to finish for my independent study. I got the compiler part to parse a subset of C. I wrote a working assembler, and a working VM. I wrote documentation for all three.
This is almost the last project I have. I need to work a little more on my report for the AI project, but that’s basically finished.
With the exception of exams, I am done with school. It feels strange. I’ve been a student for two decades.
Oh well. I’ll move on.
UPDATE: I have just turned in the project to professor Nordstrom. I get an A. Woohoo!
robin Robin, School
I spent 5 hours today helping students with their CS112 projects. Bleargh. Oh well, it’s $50, minus tax.
robin Robin, School
I finally finished my puzzle solver. It’s pretty awesome. It takes a category-feature matching puzzle and solves it using deductive logic rather than by brute force.
I actually finished the code yesterday, as well as most of the report. However, I spent several hours today cleaning it up. At this point, it works, it’s simple, and the algorithm is encoded in two functions. Once of them process an exclusion rule, and the other merges two groups. The code looks amazingly simple.
Lord knows it took me long enough. Getting this to work has been quite an affair. But now it is finished and documented. It’s 232 lines, though; the solution was surprisingly small.
robin Programming, Robin, School
Well, I’ve finally finished the grammar for my C compiler. What has resulted has been a very stripped down version of C, but one that I can actually implement. There are no floats and no arrays (although array accessing works, sort of). A lot of the syntax has gone bonkers. Anything that is successfully parsed by this compiler should be successfully parsed by a real C compiler, but not the other way around.
Arrays are a bit of a kludge. Arrays are now accessed purely as pointer dereferencing. That means the behavior for multi-dimensional arrays is a little different. In a normal C compiler, “x[y][z]” is translated as “*(x + y*sizeof(x)+z)”. Mine is going to handle it as “*(*(x+y)+z)”, making multidimensional arrays into a tree of pointers.
robin Programming, Robin, School