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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I was talking about my Intermediate Robotics class where I gave them their first project.

They were asking when the deadline is, and since I had six projects planned for fourteen weeks (thirteen not including finals) then that gives two weeks for each project.

Since the first meeting is for orientation and I did more than that, maybe this first project will take three weeks instead of two. But then, I won't tell them that and make them ease up on their work. I said deadline was next meeting.

Since they seem to have a lot of free time between classes anyway, this will make them want to spend their vacant times in the lab working on the robots.

In the Computer Circuit Fundamentals lab class afterwards, I only spent about an hour talking about the low level programming language that we will be using for their understanding of how the computer works.

I had an almost negative reaction from some of the programming veterans in the class to the very primitive use of labels for loops and conditional statements.

I also introduced interrupts, move statements, equate statements and define bytes and define words, but we didn't make a complete program yet.

In the second meeting of my Computer Circuit Fundamentals lecture class for the first week of the second term, I started on the storytelling about the history of computers. Now from the new textbook I'm using (compared to in all the basic computer courses I've taught before) this one was more detailed than the others, so that we only finished the class with the creation of ENIAC, and will finish to P4's next time.

In the meeting of my Interfacing Computer Systems lecture class, whose lab class comes earlier in the week, three days before, I started on the lecture on the parallel port of the computer, since I already talked about the serial port in my Intermediate Robotics lecture class. One student in that class, who finished INTEROB already, thought he still had to sit in on that class to learn it all.

Session 1311 would slack on a longer task deadline. Class dismissed.