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So, the Technical Account Manager for Android at Google came for the department’s seminar session. She’s basically in charge of Google’s relationship with manufacturers that use the Android OS. First off, Google is not the soul creator of Android. It’s actually a creation of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of handset manufacturers, software developers, [ READ MORE ]
I’m grading for the data structures course this semester. The prof has never taught the course and is reusing assignments from a previous professor’s version of the coursework. I spent Monday sick and grading. (I did not receive the assignments to grade until after the department grade-by due date and had to rush.) Grading is a very disheartening. The [ READ MORE ]
JUnit is a unit testing framework developed for Java programs. It’s not my favorite thing in the world. For starters, it only tests public methods. Which is a bit of a problem if from a development standpoint; many internal “heavy lifting” methods are not needed by outside classes and should be private. In addition, I [ READ MORE ]
So, this semester I’m going to have quite a workload. All my courses have a high reading amount. Two require homework and/or a programming assignment each week. In addition, I will be grading the first programming course, tutoring a foreign visually impaired student, and doing side research for the Director of Mentoring & Retention. I’m not [ READ MORE ]
My department encourages undergraduates to do research beginning in their freshman year. I get the impression that many schools limit this to a senior design project, which is rather saddening. I’ve stopped reading my CS text books because, well, they’re just not helpful. But then, trying to learn anything more unusual like how to use the [ READ MORE ]
