Digital Dave

The weekend was consumed by mostly studying for a biology exam, and spending time with the girlfriend. I did do a bit of coding for my networking class, and I feel like it was a good project. Coded in linux, c, and utilizing fork(). The project was to develop an alarm clock that goes off after 4 seconds, and then 8, 16, 32, 64 seconds. Each time, it’ll beep and increment the beeps by one – up to five times, and quit.

So I essentially created a child to maintain the alarm clock, while I let the parent keep track of the user pressing the off button (‘enter’). Once the user pressed enter, or the alarm hit the max amount of tries, I sent a SIGQUIT to kill off the process. Good times.

Today was a loooong day. I went to campus at 8 a.m, and got back home around 6 p.m. Now, if I was coding from 8 to 6, that’d be perfect… But with finance, philosophy, and biology in the mix…

I have 31 hours until I can claim my B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences. 17 of those hours are unrestricted electives, while a good majority are other CIS courses…

I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to take for those unrestricted electives. I’ve got to take 16 hours for the spring semester, and the fall semester, of next year, to graduate in December 08… So I can’t start making crazy hard schedules. But, that’s the problem… If I had my way, I’d use most of all of those unrestricted electives on CIS courses. But, too many CIS courses, could likely drive somebody to depression… Ha-ha! There are some really good ones that I’m interested in, though.

Right now, It looks like

Spring 08
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3hr CIS562 – Data modeling for business apps, database management, scripting languages, and much more…

Fall 08
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3hr CIS543 – Software engineering design project that involves design, analysis, and implementation.
3hr CIS597 – An information systems project that involves design, analysis, and implementation.
3hr ENGLXXX – TBD

For each of these semesters, I need 3 more classes… Yikes.

On the CIS side of the house, I’d be interested in taking:
CIS520 – Operating Systems. This is an extremely difficult class due to the time involvement. Mostly recommended to be taken with a semester of only 13 hours. So, I’m not sure about this one.
CIS625 – Parallel Programming
CIS635 – Intro to Computer-Based Knowledge Systems.

Ah, decisions, decisions… I’ll have to beat up my adviser for some advice for once.

One thing is certain… There shouldn’t be any doubt of my programming abilities after next year…