Posts Tagged ‘ programming ’
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 ]
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 ]
Figured I’d talk about some relatively new technology that I would love to get my hands on. So, in alphabetical order: BUG Modules These little modular hardware components are designed with rapid prototyping in mind. So, what’s so great about them? Various modules and planned modules: Audio output Motion detection Zigbee Touchscreen GPS Java programmed. Java is a simple object-oriented language with large functionality, [ READ MORE ]
