I started a new class today, "databases 201". It's a more advanced course in databases, focusing on triggers and relations algebra.
Sigh.
Just when I thought I could leave all that pesky math behind me, here they come slapping me in the face with algebra again! dramallama
It was fun, though. Tricky, but challenging. It's like riddles and puzzles, "you have three houses in three different, in each lives a family that has a car in a different color and of a different brand. Judging from the data listed below, what color car does the Anderssons have..?" Ans then you get a list telling you that the house in the middle has blue car, that Johnsons drive a Volvo, and that the Smiths live in the green house, which is on the right of the Johnsons... I like such things. You can put one piece here, which means that no other can got there, meaning that this goes here and that has to go there... And presto chango, you've created an address book for Amazon!
It may be challenging, but I much rather take a challenge that makes me strain my brain every class, than the other course I was registered to at first, HCI, "Human-Computer Interaction", telling me what 3 or 4 previous classes has already told me about how to design user-friendly interfaces, and where the old man teaching the class spent half the lesson telling us about how graphical interfaces have changed since he was young (no wonder, the computers themselves were invented when he was young!!!) - I just felt that if I was going to suffer 2 months of listening to that guy, my brain would turn into porridge and leak out of my ears. So I went to the course secretary and had them change my courses for me.
In the second course, Webb Services, we continue to struggle with XML. We're trying to set up a code that will present a looooooooooooooong list of satellite transponder codes and frquencies into one neat little table, by using javascript. And wouldn't you know, half our lab time passed without any teacher showing up - turned out he was sick and conveniently "forgot" to leave a message for the class waiting for him - not the first time he's done this! Grrrrrowl! scream
Luckily, one of the guys in class turned out to be a coding wizard, who waved dismissively at my group's attempts to solve the problem in programs like Visual Studio 2008 or NetBeans 6.1, and demonstrated how to hard-code the whole thing in WordPad... A Classicist. I teased him by asking if he could now translate it all into binary code, too. wahmbulance <=== Nerd humour!
A day well spent, on the whole - now if only I could stop sneezing...
Veda of Walks End Community Member 
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