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

So we missed two days of classes because of the bad weather. No word yet as to when the make up classes are going to be, if ever.

I still have one more class from last week (third of the second term) to talk about though, the Computer Circuit Fundamentals lab after the Intermediate Robotics Lab, where after I finished discussing the program we had from the last lecture class (the one that demonstrated keyboard input, string and numeric output loops and conditional statements), I gave them three exercises to work on: the first was a simple "Hello world" display.

The second was a simple conditional statement with two possible branches, using only two (or even, with deft programming and grouping repeated instructions, just one) jump statement.

The third was an expansion of the second one, with five possible options to check, but only three different outputs to display. So this had at least four conditional jumps and two nonconditional ones.

Not surprisingly, the students were able to finish this in less than an hour and a half.

I was planning to add another exercise (just like I added the third one when I realized that someone was already finishing the second one) but the students begged off, pleading overload.

But I did ask them about when they wanted the date of the exam to be for the fourth week, and what kind of exam they wanted.

They decided on the last day of the three options I gave them, even though it was only one and a half hours unlike the second day (during lab).

And based on the average of the percentages that they chose, the exam will be half programming, half programming analysis, since the same number of students opted for a hundred percent of each.

They even asked if the exam would be open notes, and I didn't answer, but I'm planning it will be open notes either way and not just if it is pure programming, as they are used to.

Session 1335 wants neither programming nor analysis. Class dismissed.