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.

In the second Intermediate Robotics lecture exam for the term, that was held earlier today, I gave them four sets of questions.

That is, one question for each student, taken from a set of four.

This wasn't random either: if the student in the leftmost front corner of the room was given question number one, then the guy sitting beside him was given question number two.

The guy sitting directly behind him had question number three, and the guy to his right and back had question number four.

The first program asked the students to count how many out of seven input switches are on, then display the result in 3-bit binary.

The second program has a five switch input: divided into three-bits and two-bits individually, then they had to display the difference as base ten for up to seven light emitting diodes.

The third program was just a repeat of their previous lab exercise on game show buzzers, with just the slight revision that there will now be two diodes that will light up corresponding to the first two who were able to press their buzzers.

Last was to divide two two-bit binary numbers, and display the integer quotient and the integer remainder both as decimal.

As an added precaution, I put the two most talkative students during the last exam in diametrically opposite corners of the room.

They did try to joke about using pretend radios, and the guy (both of them are fourth year irregulars, by the way) was still talking to the three people around him, so I threatened to place him in another room or out in the hall next time.

He was also late, as usual, I think not putting in his calendar the dates of the exams we discussed at the start of the term, and was obviously not been programming from his types of questions.

Session 1869 is one step closer to failing with his old attitude in a new class with an even older teacher and the oldest tolerance. Class dismissed.