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

Since it's the sixth week of classes that means that I have two exams tomorrow for two of my Assembly Language classes, one for engineering majors and the other for those taking computer science courses, whose differences I’ve already detailed.

In retrospect though, I should have set it that the Computer Systems Organization class would have the exam every three weeks and the Assembly Language ones would have one every four weeks. Right now as I've seen it the Organization class has more topics packed in the same amount of time than the Assembly Language one has, so their exams coverage come out uneven.

ASMLACS, for example, has Multiplication and various Division operations as part of the included topics, with unsigned numbers and string procedures.

ASMLENG even has stack operations and nested loops added on top of that.

COMPUSO on the other hand, already has decoders, encoders, multipliers, multiplexers, comparators, flip flops and state diagrams from flip-flop circuits, and their next exam is still two weeks away, with more topics to be covered!

One thing I learned though, is that no matter how much the students beg about not having an exercise at the end of the lecture, when I do give one (with promises of how easy it is no less) they still go about answering it nonetheless.

This applies to both engineering and computer science majors. Not that I’ve demonstrated that I’ll fly off the handle if ever they don’t comply, nor do I want to.

@@ It’s also the first time that I’ve had someone complain to me after I’ve given them back the scores to their previous exam that what I gave them was “too difficult”.

I would have said thanks, but that might have led to more discussion. So they were just expecting me to change my test style? Lower my standards?

Students nowadays really don’t know what they’re asking with voicing their gut feel reactions.

And despite everything, this ends up being a rant about the generation gap.

Session 2025 actually didn’t intend NOT to talk about feeling too old compared to the students, at least not with these technical course takers. Class dismissed.