Mastodawn

What's not in my profile?

I used to be a huge Wirth-ian in the 1990s and spewed excellent tirades against the evils of C. Niklaus Wirth is also my "PhD grandfather" via Michael Franz at #UCIrvine.

I prefer lecturing sitting down in front of a laptop and talking while I do stuff on said laptop. I very much dislike slides and prefer chalk and blackboard for things like data structures.

I got my "15 minutes of fame" served unexpectedly:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boycott-final-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get
https://boingboing.net/2013/02/19/students-get-class-wide-as-by.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/gaming-the-system/

But it still was fun.

I got my undergraduate degree from https://www.cs.hm.edu/ which back then was not allowed to feed into PhD programs. It's a thing in Germany: Everything is tiered and changing the tiers requires a change to the constitution of the republic (I am joking, but not really) so it takes a while. (Nowadays it would be easier to go on to a PhD from there.) The "plus" was that I spent two semesters in industry. In one I quickly out-FORTRAN-ed my boss, in the other I learned C++ from Stroustrup in two weeks while riding the bus. Beat that Ivy League!

I grew up on #c64 #basic and #mos6502 (well, #mos6510 I guess) assembly, went on to #m68k assembly, #gfabasic and lots of #oberon. Of course I was dabbling in #modula2, #prolog, #scheme, and more. Then it was mostly whatever I needed so #fortran, #cpp, #java, lots of #python, lots more #c, lots more #arm and #x86 assembly, some #golang, some #ocaml, some #csharp even if you can believe it. Nowadays it's pretty much #c all day with chunks of #python and bits of #rust now and then. And chunks of #bash too.

(Proudly self-plagiarized off of a few 2023/2024 posts from my previous account.) #introduction #SorryItsLate

Students boycott final to challenge professor's grading policy (and get As)

To test limits of Johns Hopkins professor's scaled grading policy, all of his students boycott the final -- and all get As as a result.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

aparatorul 4d ago

Secerișul acum s-a apropiat și sfârșit are chiar și viața noastră. lar, îngerii țin gata secerile, așteaptă doar porunca Să ne facem veghetori și să ne trezim ca niște nesomnoroși. Nu știm în care ceas Stăpânul va veni. Să ieșim de sub apăsarea celor pământești 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/egl0e 👈 #Apostoli #ÎmpărățiaCerurilor #Ceasulestealunsprezecelea #Dumnezeu #Prolog #prooroci #SfEfremSirul #Sfinţii #Treime
https://c.aparatorul.md/egl0e