Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

Just a few side comments today about the latest robots demo.

When a certain student showed up early for the class, he asked the technician to turn on the computer for him and to place his flash drive at the back of the unit, but not for the robot. Actually it was his report in another electronics subject - also not the first time that he has prioritized that during my class period. This insults me more than does playing games either offline or online as some students do.

But I don't call his attention to his behavior (somehow thinking that's what he wants, the spotlight) so I will just reflect it in his grade.

I also wrote on the board that there will be deductions to those who will show up at the venue late, but that did not prevent them from doing just that, and not being able to demonstrate at all.

As for the sorting mechanics in my Computer Circuit Fundamentals class, I taught the two basic types of sorting again for the first time in almost five years, maybe more since I don't remember teaching arrays after the DOS prompt passed.

The shell sort and the bubble sort are both composed of - in their simplest form, six lines of code. One takes a smaller number of executions that the other, but for the students, it's a matter of which one is easier to comprehend.

The class even got to the point where the question was asked: if shell sort is really easier, can you say it fast and clearly ten times?

Of course, when they convert this to assembly language, it will take considerably more than six lines to execute correctly.

Session 1415 has to take a basic concept in one of the advanced courses. Class dismissed.