For the last five weeks, I was in the habit of sleeping in until noon everyday. What seems like a blessing at the end of a semester quickly becomes severely annoying, especially when a scheduled lecture is at 8:30am in a computer lab that STRICTLY forbids coffee.
Now lets be honest here. Computer science is interesting, but it is not the most thrilling experience in the world. Enter Data Structures. This will be the fourth C++ programming class that we are required to follow in CompSci at John Abbott College.
There are two sections for my class this semester, yet the college has decided to combine the two sections for this one class. The idea is to have the same teacher, and therefore more consistency, for both groups. Unfortunately there only thirty-two workstations in the lab, and thirty-four students.
On top of that possible inconvenience, the class runs three hours, from 8:30am to 11:30am, twice a week. It starts with a lecture portion then moves onto a lab section. 8:30 in the morning is too early to be thinking about abstract data types and linked lists without caffeine entering the blood stream.
The first day was basic, a review of data types, functions, and other basic programming concepts. The good news, the text (Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects (6th Edition)
) from my first programming class is still valid, that will be a $70 book that was used in four classes.
Now lets be honest here. Computer science is interesting, but it is not the most thrilling experience in the world. Enter Data Structures. This will be the fourth C++ programming class that we are required to follow in CompSci at John Abbott College.
There are two sections for my class this semester, yet the college has decided to combine the two sections for this one class. The idea is to have the same teacher, and therefore more consistency, for both groups. Unfortunately there only thirty-two workstations in the lab, and thirty-four students.
On top of that possible inconvenience, the class runs three hours, from 8:30am to 11:30am, twice a week. It starts with a lecture portion then moves onto a lab section. 8:30 in the morning is too early to be thinking about abstract data types and linked lists without caffeine entering the blood stream.
The first day was basic, a review of data types, functions, and other basic programming concepts. The good news, the text (Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects (6th Edition)
) from my first programming class is still valid, that will be a $70 book that was used in four classes.
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