Posts Tagged ‘ maths ’
This week saw the continuation of teaching myself PHP / MySQL, finding it a fair bit easier than other programming languages – probably due to both their nature (being web-based) and the fact that I’ve had a year of computer science at university to instil some kind of core concepts. Anyway, that’s coming along well, [ READ MORE ]
Apologies for the lack of posting – it is currently the end of 5th week, and I realise I haven’t posted anything all term – so while these next few posts may be quite short, rest assured that longer ones will be coming in the future. So, week 1: lectures of 2nd year. First impressions: really, [ READ MORE ]
And so starts another year at Keble. While Freshers Week is designed to help the new 1st year settle in and meet people, I’ve found that the week actually lends itself much more to returning students that to new ones in terms of making friends – last year, I was introduced to so many people [ READ MORE ]
On Tuesday and Thursday of this week I had computer science exams – Functional Programming and Design & Analysis of Algorithms on Tuesday, and Imperative Programming I and II on Thursday. They both went about the same – could have gone worse, and could probably have gone much better. I’m not sure what else there [ READ MORE ]
It still surprises me, to the point of it being seemingly magical, how hot water can clean plates so much better than cold water can. A sign of reading thorough too many pages of Linear Algebra lecture notes is reading “exercise left to the reader” as “exercise left of the radar”. Many times. Maths lecturers copy lecture [ READ MORE ]