More to come
I have more news yet to come, about FreeSide, but there are certain other personages I wish to inform (and discuss with) first, so be patient young grass-boingers.
Coursework Conundrum
I have been informed by the most venerable Rob Miles that I failed my programming coursework for this past semester, the one I stupidly 'rm`'d into oblivion and then got a second chance at, mainly due to the code I submitted not compiling or running.
Hang on one minute..
The code I originally submitted was not in working order as it was the result of some slightly polished but stale backup many days out of date, back when the program had not been completed, but I second lot submitted was in almost-fully working order, definitely more than enough for a 40% pass.
So what's been amiss?
It's my humble guess that my second submitted lot, in it's most unofficial state of extension-dom, was not diff-merged, so to speak, into my previously submitted attempt (e.g. the CD I handed in second time round wasn't put with the cover sheet and floppy from the first time round), meaning my incomplete, uncompiling, unrunnable, not working, stale code was marked, not the code I managed to redo from scratch in 2 nights.
Oh well!
Can't be helped, I was getting more than necessary when it came to an unofficial extension anyway, and Rob's been more than accommodating.
As long as I've passed my exam, I've passed and that's the important thing. ;)
Now back to writing the money earners in a language that actually accommodates a programmer, rather than dictating.
Decline of CS student
There is a steady decline in computer science today, from the very basis of the student, of course spreading forward as they become tomorrow's computer scientists.
That decline can be summed in the very action that the average student is more than willing to allow a body, be it an organisation/corporation, or a computer program, or computer itself, dictate how/when/why things are.
The CS student, and hacking itself, is the very essence of choice, you decide, not them, and certainly not [an] it.
Hang just a little longer..
So very tired, got home later than expected, just struggling to type stuff out at the moment, let's see how I muddle through things.