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

In the Computer Circuit Fundamentals lab class of my students for the sixth week of the second term, I gave them time to finish their exercise on accepting two two-digit numbers and displaying the output that is up to four digits. I even gave them the flowchart of the progam already, and the loops they need to verify the input and to separate the characters of the output.

Unfortunately, they still could not get the nuances of loops that have an unspecified number of executions, because even the math champion's group had their outputs set at four digits with leading zeroes if it was less than a thousand, and the same with the input, needing to place leading zeroes if it is only one digit instead of accepting the carriage return anytime.

But they were able to finish the latest exercise, although one of the groups is still two exercises behind of the others, which they will have to catch up and submit. What's strange is that

In the second meeting of my COMCIRF lecture class for the week, I asked them whether they wanted to start with strings or with floating point operations, and they chose the former.

I gave them the basics, including the fact that input interrupts used for entering strings is the same as for entering numbers, it's just a question of where they are stored and how they are processed. But there was an addressing index mode problem with their latest exercise, so it was put on hold for a while.

I will have to go back to my previous method of instruction, which is to give them a sample program first for which I will explain the new commands given, and after which they can copy and paste parts that they have to use for their exercise.

The declaration of the variable they used is also in error, since the compiler we are using does not allow constants to be reassigned values.

As for the Integrated Computer Systems two-hour session for the week, they just continued with trouble shooting their two-buzzer game show system, for which they have not yet finished checking if the gates they used are all working. If the exclusive or gate they used does not give the correct truth table output completely, then I suggested they construct a new exclusive or gate using other gates available.

Session 1369 does not go beyond a fixed mindset. Class dismissed.