08.26.05
Day three of both worlds…
Third day of high school this year. Third day of college. I’m rather tired, and I wish I would have gone to sleep a while ago. Apparently getting a decent amount of sleep (meaning more then 4 hours) and waking up at a decent time can make you quite tired if you work hard through the day. Needless to say my programming and computer related endeavours have suffered and have been put on a halt this week.
A few reflections to note before I elaborate later.
Got my DS quiz back. Needless to say, he counted the problem wrong. I want to explain my logic on this, as I still think it makes more sense. The problem was:
Given the following argument:
This number is even or this number is odd.
This number is not even.
Therefore, this number is odd.
A) Represent the statement form of this argument using letters to stand for component sentences.
My answer:
p XOR q
~p
Therefore, q
This question stood between me and my perfect score on this quiz. While he only took off 0.1 from my score, I’m still a little annoyed. Analyze it. A number will be even, or odd, but never both odd and even. That is clearly an exlusive or. Not inclusive.
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Apparently I took it wrong when O’Kane said I had the skills of a college sophomore at least. As he puts it, we are learning C, not C++ right now. He has to teach people how to move in a *nix environment, what a compiler is, how to use them, what PuTTy is and why they should use it for SSH, whats nice about cygwin, and all of that. This basically means I won’t have much to do for a while in CS I.
It was kind of a realization today when he wrote a hello world C program and everyone in the class thought it was fairly kick ass. He said I probably won’t learn much besides a small bit of C++ styntax this semester. Oh well, I could use 4 credit hours that are easy.
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Now all I need to decide is what to do for my ALPHA project. Expect some elaborations tomorrow. Supposing I don’t leave too early or come home too late from Iowa City.