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[Ensign Steve]

I signed up for my fall classes yesterday. It will be my first time back in the (university) classroom in about five years. All my (university) education I got while I was in the service was done through distance learning. University is parenthetical there, because I got plenty of (military) education in (military) classrooms while I was in, obviously.

I'll be taking two computer science classes (that's my major), as well as calculus and early United States history.

Um. That's it! :wave:

[Ensign Steve]

Oh, for all your stalking needs, this is my school:

California State University, Long Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_Long_Beach)

[Watser?]

Good on yer ES :cheer:

[Crumb]

Cool, ES! What CS classes are you taking?

[Ensign Steve]

Um... I forget? I need to look in the catalog for the full descriptions.

Some kind of logic class that I really hope is about machine language. And some sort of "problem-solving" class that's taught in Java. I got to skip past intros to algorithms, oop, and data structures, cuz I already took those.

[Crumb]

Ah, logic. That may be more theoretical than you are thinking. :yup:

Hmm the "problem-solving" is the best part of CS. :) That's what it is all about.

[LadyShea]

Don't get all high falutin' now you're gettin' educated, ya hear?

[Ensign Steve]

Don't get all high falutin' now you're gettin' educated, ya hear?

That'll be the day! :giggles:

[Ensign Steve]

Ah, logic. That may be more theoretical than you are thinking. :yup:

Hmm the "problem-solving" is the best part of CS. :) That's what it is all about.

I already took intro to logic way back before computers were invented, and I enjoyed it very much. It was probably my favorite philosophy class ever. You think it'll be like that? Fun!

[livius drusus]

Let em recognize from Long Beach to Rosecrans
Bumpin and grindin like a slow jam
It's west side so you know the row won't bow down to no man
Say what you say
But give me that bomb beat from Dre
Let me serenade the streets of L.A.
From Oakland to Sacktown
The Bay Area and back down
Cali is where they put they mack down
Give me love!

Congratulations! Don't forget to bring a shiny red apple for teacher on your first day. It's how all the kids these days roll.

[Ensign Steve]

I was looking at my transcripts, and I realized I've been in college for 15 years.

I can has PHD nao?

[Dingfod]

My mom was in college ...



... for about 20 years, for which Rogers State University gave her a more or less honorary Associates Degree in Liberal Studies. She never took more than a couple classes at a time and only what interested her, not on a degree track. Boy, did that pay off or what?



You're going to get all edumacated and dump me like inland wave is going to when she gets her degree next year.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:nerd:

Grats! ;)

[ChuckF]

Stay out of the frat houses!

[Clutch Munny]

Yeah. Those boys aren't ready for you.

[ChuckF]

Or your jelly.

[JoeP]

Some kind of logic class that I really hope is about machine language. And some sort of "problem-solving" class that's taught in Java.

I'm getting tricorder readings that suggest you'll need to change character. :spock:

[Stormlight]

Way to go, ES! :cheer:

[Ensign Steve]

Some kind of logic class that I really hope is about machine language. And some sort of "problem-solving" class that's taught in Java.

I'm getting tricorder readings that suggest you'll need to change character. :spock:

Ensign Xon reporting for duty. :salute:

[JamesBannon]

:cheer: Enjoy!

[godfry n. glad]

My mom was in college ...



... for about 20 years, for which Rogers State University gave her a more or less honorary Associates Degree in Liberal Studies. She never took more than a couple classes at a time and only what interested her, not on a degree track. Boy, did that pay off or what?



You're going to get all edumacated and dump me like inland wave is going to when she gets her degree next year.

A degree in "Liberal Studies"? Were they trying to insult her, or sumpin'? I mean...it is OK, isn't it?

Good luck, Ensign. I shall be interested in how your 'early Amurikin herstory' class goes. CS?....meh.

[maddog]

:fixed:


Congratulations! Don't forget to bring a shiny any kind BUT red apple for teacher on your first day.
:apple: :eww: :puke:

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[Ensign Steve]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".

Basic topics in combinational and sequential switching circuits with applications to the design of digital devices. Laboratory projects with Small Scale Integration (SSI) implementations using Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Sounds ... fun? :shrug:

[viscousmemories]

Congrats ES! Does this mean you won't be able to do my homework anymore?

[Ensign Steve]

Was I supposed to be doing your homework? I thought you were doing mine! :stunned:

[Crumb]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".

Basic topics in combinational and sequential switching circuits with applications to the design of digital devices. Laboratory projects with Small Scale Integration (SSI) implementations using Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Sounds ... fun? :shrug:

Ah that's much different than I was thinking. That could be fun. :yup:

[Ymir's blood]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".
Logic is little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.

[biochemgirl]

Good for you ES! :yup:

Oh, for all your stalking needs, this is my school:

California State University, Long Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_Long_Beach)

Sweet! I'll send my stalker your way.

[Ensign Steve]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".
Logic is little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.

Are you in the wrong thread? (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17047)

[Ymir's blood]

Does this mean I stumped Ensign Steve with a Star Trek quote? :gasp:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:ohnoes:

[Ensign Steve]

Yes, you have, and it's not the first time. I am proud of, but not arrogant about, my trekness.

Can I get some context?

[Ymir's blood]

I, Mudd.

Spock is saying it to cause the androids to short out.

[Shelli]

Yay for Ensign! :larrybounce:

[Ensign Steve]

I, Mudd.

Spock is saying it to cause the androids to short out.

You're kidding me! :stunned: I've even seen that one recently. But I only remember Kirk doing it by telling the android that Spock always lies. I thought they must not be very sophisticated if it never occurred to them that Kirk was lying.

[Nullifidian]

Congratulations on going back to school. :)

I'll have to look to you when I think of how much I've been in school. In contrast to you, it's like I only just started. :P

[Ensign Steve]

FWIW, I'm already making more money than they were saying we (people in my major) should be able to make right out of school. So it's not like I'm actually 13 years behind the curve or anything.

[Julie]

Grats JD. Sounds like...fun?

[Ymir's blood]

I, Mudd.

Spock is saying it to cause the androids to short out.

You're kidding me! :stunned: I've even seen that one recently. But I only remember Kirk doing it by telling the android that Spock always lies. I thought they must not be very sophisticated if it never occurred to them that Kirk was lying.It's been years since I've seen it but Spock's line just stuck in my head as a child.

Lying isn't 'logical' apparently. It's my only pet peeve about TOS, the creators really didn't have a good grasp of what logic is or isn't.

[Ensign Steve]

Lying isn't 'logical' apparently. It's my only pet peeve about TOS, the creators really didn't have a good grasp of what logic is or isn't.

It's not just TOS. They never worked it out.

I just figure that the language has evolved such that "logic" doesn't have the same definition in the 23rd century as it has now.

Uh-oh. Don't get me started. I can be as slippery as a creationist when it comes to defending my religion.

[viscousmemories]

FWIW, I'm already making more money than they were saying we (people in my major) should be able to make right out of school.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm already making way more than the average person with an associates degree in IT but I'm working on getting one anyway.

[Ensign Steve]

Awesome. :) It's not all about the money, obviously, or we wouldn't be doing it. Part of it for me is that I never graduated from high school, which I know you can also relate to. I just want to have a graduation, and a party, and not be bitter about all the "dads n grads" displays that invade the shops around my birthday time. Also, maybe when I graduate I'll get cool cash gifts.

[viscousmemories]

Hehe. I'm not into the graduation bit m'self, I'm just tired of writing "none" under "Education" on resumes, job applications, etc. It's embarrassing. I'm also expecting to learn a thing or two which is always fun, but combined with everything I have to learn to do my job effectively I feel like my brain might melt any day now. I'm halfway through my first block of classes at Phoenix University online though, and so far so good.

[Ensign Steve]

Halfway through your first block of classes? Awesome! Now you can put "some college" on your applications! :thumbup:

[JamesBannon]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".

Basic topics in combinational and sequential switching circuits with applications to the design of digital devices. Laboratory projects with Small Scale Integration (SSI) implementations using Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Sounds ... fun? :shrug:

In other words, Boolean Algebras. I guess you can call it fun if you're into that sort of thing.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I found the description for my logic course. The full name is "Computer Logic Design I".

Basic topics in combinational and sequential switching circuits with applications to the design of digital devices. Laboratory projects with Small Scale Integration (SSI) implementations using Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Sounds ... fun? :shrug:

In other words, Boolean Algebras. I guess you can call it fun if you're into that sort of thing.

Wait, there's more than just one kind of algebra?

:faint:

[JamesBannon]

:giggle: Here's a :hug: for you, Uthgar.

[Clutch Munny]

Hehe. I'm not into the graduation bit m'self, I'm just tired of writing "none" under "Education" on resumes, job applications, etc. It's embarrassing.

Mind you, there's also something embarrassing about having my kids figure out that Dad's in Grade 35.

[JoeP]

Register Register Register for School
Is this a ref to Elan from the order of the stick, or is some more general meme that's passed me by?

[Ensign Steve]

I don't know what Elan from the order of the stick is.

It's a skip-roping chant from when I was a little girl.

Register, register, register for school
My name is Jennifer and I want to go to school
Capital J! E - N - N - I - F - E - R!
And I want to go to school
First grade, second grade, third grade ...

etc.

:shrug:

[cappuccino]

Get thyself to The Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html)

You'll have to start from the beginning though but enjoy procrastinating your college homework :nod:

[Ensign Steve]

:glare:

Also, thanks.

[JoeP]

The Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html) is a webcomic by Rich Burlew about the Order of the Stick, who are a bunch of rpg-style stick figures. Well, stick arms and legs at least.

Elan is the bard. Apart from annoying enemies - and companions - to death, his main skill is influencing things by song. These songs always start with repeated words, rather like your skipping songs.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/images/oots0004.gif

[Ensign Steve]

Neat!

[SharonDee]

It's a skip-roping chant from when I was a little girl.

Register, register, register for school
My name is Jennifer and I want to go to school
Capital J! E - N - N - I - F - E - R!
And I want to go to school
First grade, second grade, third grade ...

etc.I learned it a little differently:
:sheeprope:
Register, register, register for school.
Don't be late and don't be a fool.

If there's more, I don't remember it. :girlthink:

[viscousmemories]

Halfway through your first block of classes? Awesome! Now you can put "some college" on your applications! :thumbup:
Actually I've been able to say that for some time now. When I got my community college transcript as part of enrolling at Phoenix I had seven credits from classes spanning three decades, classes I took in '89 (Intro Psych.), '94 (Digital Switching), and 2001 (Creative Writing) respectively. Unfortunately there's not always a "some college" option on these things.

[fragment]

Awesome, ES!

Seems like quite a few of us FFers are edumacating ourselves at the moment...

[beyelzu]

Get thyself to The Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html)

You'll have to start from the beginning though but enjoy procrastinating your college homework :nod:

thirding the awesomeness of order of the stick

[beyelzu]

Grats es.

[Ensign Steve]

Awesome, ES!

Seems like quite a few of us FFers are edumacating ourselves at the moment...

Thanks. What are you working on? I assumed you were already all edumacated. I probably had it confused with well-travelled.

[inland wave]

My mom was in college ...



... for about 20 years, for which Rogers State University gave her a more or less honorary Associates Degree in Liberal Studies. She never took more than a couple classes at a time and only what interested her, not on a degree track. Boy, did that pay off or what?



You're going to get all edumacated and dump me like inland wave is going to when she gets her degree next year.

Yeah that's right, I will dump you at the front door so you can retire while I work up-teen more years. You best get a part-time job, you hunk of love you....:whup:

[fragment]

Thanks. What are you working on? I assumed you were already all edumacated. I probably had it confused with well-travelled.
I never finished my philosophy degree. That was some time back. This year I started a bachelor degree in ecology.

[Ensign Steve]

I went and gave all of my money to the school today. I was prepared to pay tuition*, but $123 for parking caught me off guard. Books weren't cheap either. The computer logic book was $118 used! :glare: Also I had to get a shitload of different books for history class, including something called "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. Should be interesting. :popcorn:

:student:

* Or, as prepared as it was possible to be when fees were due on 8/20 and GI bill doesn't come until 10/1. :sadcheer:

[Joshua Adams]

Dude, you can probably get Common Sense on Gutenberg.

Yeah, Common Sense by Thomas Paine - Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3755)

[Ensign Steve]

Yeah, I was thinking of checking bittorrent Amazon for all my books, and returning the ones I could get for cheaper. We'll see. But Common Sense was only like 7 bucks.

[Smilin]

I signed up for my fall classes yesterday. It will be my first time back in the (university) classroom in about five years. All my (university) education I got while I was in the service was done through distance learning. University is parenthetical there, because I got plenty of (military) education in (military) classrooms while I was in, obviously.

I'll be taking two computer science classes (that's my major), as well as calculus and early United States history.

Um. That's it! :wave:

Need a math tutor? Just offering to help......:cool::D

[Ensign Steve]

Math is actually my best subject. I've been leafing through my new calculus book and getting all :eager: about the homeworks.

You don't happen to know how to program in Java, do you? Because that's where I need the most help.

[Crumb]

I do.

[Ensign Steve]

Look out, Crumb. I will hit you up for homework help! :sammich:

[Crumb]

:panics:

[Smilin]

Java programming? *grin*

I've taught myself AutoCAD, Pro-E, MathCAD, E-Z power, E-Tap, (just to name a few) so I'm sure given time and motivation I could master Java.

How much harder could it be than C++ or Fortran?

Calculus and Differential Equations was my specialty however.....

If you ever need help, just holler!

[Crumb]

The Java syntax is 85% C. No pointer arithmetic though.

[Ensign Steve]

Thank god for that! :P

Pointers and dynamic memory allocation are what killed me in C++. Somehow I still managed to get a B, though.

[JoeP]

Dude, you can probably get Common Sense on Gutenberg.

Yeah, Common Sense by Thomas Paine - Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3755)

Common sense anywhere on the internet is a surprise.

--

Looking forward to those Java questions! I'm learning it too.

[ceptimus]

I know some Java so I can have a shot at the questions too (time permitting).

[Smilin]

Just post your homework here on the forum....

I'm sure with all the brain power, you'll come out fine.....

[Joshua Adams]

I'd say I could help with Java and calculus, but, sadly, we don't have a LaTeX engine on this forum so any math related questions are rendered unanswerable. Blame vm, I guess.

[Ensign Steve]

:laugh:

[Dingfod]

My grandson starts school tomorrow, Pre-K. Mrs. F. is young and eager and not bad looking either. We met her tonight at the "Meet Your Teacher" night event. He thinks he grew an inch or two today because he's going to "Big Kids School" tomorrow.

[Ensign Steve]

Pre-K is now big kids school? Jebus.

[viscousmemories]

I'm required to take Java too but probably not for a few months. I'll definitely be sniffing around here for help though.

[Ensign Steve]

I've already taken Java, when I took object-oriented programming. And it kicked my ass. So now this problem-solving course I'm taking is also in Java (I had a choice between that and C++) and I assume they are going to expect me to have retained at least some of what I picked up in OOP. I almost wished they hadn't waived the prereqs for me so I'd have a chance to re-learn it. Almost.

[Dingfod]

Pre-K is now big kids school? Jebus.It is to him, he's only 41" tall.

[Ensign Steve]

Get thyself to The Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html)

You'll have to start from the beginning though but enjoy procrastinating your college homework :nod:

I didn't follow your directive, but I ended up there anyway due to a link (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html)off of reddit.

It was teal dear. Are they all like that?

[Goliath]

Wait, there's more than just one kind of algebra?

:faint:

Why yes. Yes there is. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra) :pleased:

[JoeP]

Get thyself to The Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html)

You'll have to start from the beginning though but enjoy procrastinating your college homework :nod:

I didn't follow your directive, but I ended up there anyway due to a link (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html)off of reddit.

It was teal dear. Are they all like that?

The sea is blue. The city is Azure City. The guys in the cloaks are the Sapphire Guard.

Not teal.

[Ensign Steve]

Wow is it that time again already? Tomorrow I'm going to register from my spring classes. We're at that point where the one teacher is all "this is the last lab" and the other teacher is all "we only have 2 lectures left", etc. Phew, too, because I was about to burn the fuck out. :needvac:

Next semester I'm taking a bunch of CS courses and General Biology (which is my last non-major course).

I'm really looking forward to Biology, and I totally blame The Lone Ranger for piquing my interest in the subject. I've never ever taken Biology, not even in high school or anything. This should be exciting! :bacteria:

vm: The chicken button is not fixed in the edit box.

[Kael]

Shit, I need to do that...
* Kael will forget again, almost certainly.

Also, I know that was months ago, but I too would like to add that Order of the Stick is awesome. That forum was my old haunt, actually.

[fragment]

Yeah, it's time for me to register for next year, too. There's more interesting things to choose from than I can fit in, but I think I've got a plan. Going to get some course advice from a couple of lecturers first, though.