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.

* Another update about that Differential Calculus class that was first changed to meeting at 6-730 in the evening twice a week.

It has been changed again, this time to during the day, although at different days and at different times, but those are the only one and a half hour periods that both the students and the teacher are free. But at least the students have no excuse now about it being too tiring to go to class at that time.

I haven't asked the teacher yet though if the students are more attentive now.

* In my Introduction to Robotics class, I gave them their first project, which they have to demonstrate publicly in two weeks.

I gave them the hint that they are going to make communicating robots.

But just like one of the projects I gave my students in my last robotics class, they are going to be "passing the message" instead of answering each other, which I may reserve for another day.

This time, each robot, whose height and width is made standard, has to be able to read from two touch sensors at one end, then transmit that to two extenders on the other side.

I told them there will be three rounds: one for just one press, another for two presses, the last for four presses, in any order.

This means the students have to be able to make three distinct programs, one for each round, unless they are really good programmers who could make one program to take all three.

There is also no limit on the height of their robot or the width, as long as the extenders and the touch sensors are aligned.

And I had to specify that the robots have to have stationary bases, otherwise, when they push, they may get pulled back.

Session 1661 is too creative for their own good. Class dismissed.