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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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The aftermath of the exams... I guess that it didn't help to be surrounded by people panicing about QM for weeks. It's contagious; even though I'm good at QM, I'm not immune. Now I just don't want to go back there on Monday... ----------- |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Get drunk and party! |
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james_lohr
Member #1,947
February 2002
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I'm so glad I changed to a CS. Some of the questions were quite fun: Write a program that displays the first 5 lines of pascals triangle using nested for loops. Write a recursive binary search method to search an ordered array of integers. Write a method to perform an insertion sort on an array of integers. Write a method that takes an array of integers and returns a random permutation of the array, all permutations must have equal probability of occurring. Write a method that takes an integer as an input (eg 12158) and displays the time in this format: "at the third... ..the time will be twelve fifteen and eight seconds." etc. The only challenging thing about the exam was that it was insanely long for a two hour exam. Quote: I've bored, I'm tired, but yet I can't seem to tear myself away to go to bed before 3am.
I've been much the same since I finished my exams. :S Not done much else other than play WoW. ...although I just got a "You have used your prepaid time for this account. Please purchase more to continue playing." message so I won't be playing for a while.
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Quote: Some of the questions were quite fun: Write a program that displays the first 5 lines of pascals triangle using nested for loops. Write a recursive binary search method to search an ordered array of integers. Write a method to perform an insertion sort on an array of integers. Write a method that takes an array of integers and returns a random permutation of the array, all permutations must have equal probability of occurring. Write a method that takes an integer as an input (eg 12158) and displays the time in this format: "at the third... ..the time will be twelve fifteen and eight seconds." etc.
Fun? P.s. Why does your avatar have glowing eyes? |
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james_lohr
Member #1,947
February 2002
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Quote: Fun?
Wouldn't you rather hack code together than answer questions about that Quantum Mechanics mubo jumbo? Quote: P.s. Why does your avatar have glowing eyes?
Not sure
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Archon
Member #4,195
January 2004
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Quote: P.s. Why does your avatar have glowing eyes?
He's a night elf Quote: Do you really want this to become another WoW thread?
I don't think he cares |
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Soga
Member #4,589
May 2004
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Quote: Besides, Java is just like C, if you can answer those in C then you'll have no problem doing them in Java.
Except that Java is much more anal retentive and gives nonsensical errors much more frequently. EDIT: I sure complain about Java a lot. |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Quote: Wouldn't you rather hack code together than answer questions about that Quantum Mechanics mubo jumbo? No. Certainly not 'exam code' anyway; they always ask you to write some code that is completely useless and pointless. Well, not pointless, the point is to show that you can code; but the actual code at the end of it is not useful. The worst part of those CS exams is that they are often on paper. I think it is ridiculous to get people to write code on paper. ----------- |
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Archon
Member #4,195
January 2004
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Quote: But QM isn't mubo jumbo. It's the language the universe is written in; and the aim of physics is to decompile the universe.
Reverse engineering the universe? You better hope God created the universe without any licenses or has copyright on it |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Quote: Reverse engineering the universe? You better hope God created the universe without any licenses or has copyright on it Yeah, but we aren't going to modify it in any way; or make a new one using his code. We just want to take a look at how it works. Besides, isn't he all forgiving? We'll just apologise to him afterwards if it turns out that there's a problem, and that'll be that! I don't think he'll mind... ----------- |
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Mordredd
Member #5,291
December 2004
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Can you USlers say something about the MIT? Is it really that l337? I planned to study at the TU Delft, that is next to Rotterdam. It should be very good, but I am trying hard to get the best education I can get...
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: Wouldn't you rather hack code together than answer questions about that Quantum Mechanics mubo jumbo?
Eeeew! Now, I'd rather do something interesting (ie, quantum mechanics). Quote: I planned to study at the TU Delft, that is next to Rotterdam. It should be very good, but I am trying hard to get the best education I can get...
I think Delft is good for what they teach, although I've always prefered a general university over a technical one myself. They have some very good people in Delft doing some very impressive work though (Cees Dekker and his nanoscience group are at the top of the world). |
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Had a Java exam last Wednesday. I actually enjoyed doing it! 
Besides, Java is just like C, if you can answer those in C then you'll have no problem doing them in Java.
...maybe for the same reason that dwarves have beards? Do you really want this to become another WoW thread? 
But that's to be expected, I'm in a high school programming class that uses Java. They switched to that from C++ about two years ago. 