rewind back to morning, the lecture was dull but the lecturer made a bit of effort in trying to keep us awake and stuff. he succeeded only partially. i drifted off to lala land once in a while throughout the two hours. i must say, for a chinese down under, his english was a lot better than *that* lady we came across who was an associate professor. of course there's always room for improvement. but considering he's a Doctorate i shouldn't be surprised. and he's also one of the senior lecturers with this faculty.
and yeah, about this project proposal i have to submit come thursday, i'm done. at least i hope so. i'm not putting in a whole lot of details just yet because this is just a "preliminary" kind of artifact for the subject. anyway i'd uploaded it to the school subject site. they have this function that allows you to *upload* first, and do your submission of the file(s) separately.
i had another one of those peer-assisted study sessions in the afternoon. i'm pretty glad they had something like this. we're moving into C programming now. and GOODNESS!!! i've got no clue what pointers are and how they are programmed/behave!!! *pulls hair and freaks out* so yeah the rest of the people helped shed light on this topic. and surprisingly my *guess* for a particular question posed to us was correct.
[TECH RANT] the question was: how a double pointer points to a regular pointer. and the answer was something like:-
int **dblptr;
int *ptr;
dblptr = &ptr;
[OK ENOUGH TECH RANT]
hehe the code looks pretty harmless if you just glance at it like that without actually reading the question fully. we were all rather confused. and i'm glad i answered it right. this means i kind of got the right concepts/ideas about this shit.
and finally, next i have to work on this presentation for friday. i've got loads of reading up to do. the learning resources for this provided about 17 PDF files of "whitepapers" which are essentially research papers (which is probably whitewash anyway) that are each roughly an average of 20 pages long. *both palms to cheeks with mouth gaping* well ok i'll try to read a select few instead of everything. and i'll probably skim through after deciding if it's worth continuing reading, from their abstracts. and then i'll have to gather my own conclusions and put them down on powerpoint slides. and to that, we're limited to 10 slides each. excluding cover page and references at the end of course.
oh speaking of which, i feel i must rant a bit. i'm turning racist against chinese nationals probably... can't open their god damn mouth. i won't mind if they speak broken english. or speak to me in chinese or something. but bloody open up their mouths to communicate lah... small class also so shy meh! ok so we were in the PASS lesson i mentioned earlier on. we had to work on some questions in groups of 3. me and this australian (aka angmoh) and this asian (ok i can't be sure he's from china) were trying to solve the stuff. even though i barely know what was going on. just try lo... but this "asian" (look, i've really got no clue which country he originates... haha) just sat there looking at us do our stuff. LOLOMFGWTFROFLMAOCKP!?! (for those unaware, i decided to come up with that, and added a singapore twist to it. LOL, OMFG, WTF, ROFLMAO, CKP. to which CKP means Chio Ka Peng) *ahem* ok anyway he did jot down the notes after we shared and discuss our answers on the whiteboard with the guide/tutor. sad fact was he was without any notes or lecture slides with him. and he didn't even seemed to be attempting to work something out on his writing pad. wonder how these people expect to pass.
oh yeah passing... i can't believe people (at year 3 level) are asking questions like "so are we suppose to write some HTML and put some dummy data in the site?" for those not in the know, i would answer a huge N-O no to that. ok i should quote the guy who posted that question directly:
| Author: Garrett Frost |
| Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 13:38 |
I am still unclear about the actual project itself. If you choose to do |
ah enough with the ranting. happy birthday singapore! i didn't catch the web cast of the national day parade. how heartless! well i was busy reading. :(
*waych waych!*
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