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

Just a continuation to what I was talking about yesterday. So in my Assembly Language class we had our last session for the 12th week of the term.

I was planning to discuss arrays of more than three dimensions, records with more than 2 fields (including boolean and those with less than 256 possible values) and linked lists.

I suspected though that if I went into linked lists, which is a whole new topic, then they would know this is the trade off for postponing the exam.

But if just went into 4-D arrays and 3-field records, they would think it's just an expansion (wholly intended since the start) of the concepts discussed during the meeting when the pleaded for the postponement of our last, pre-final exam.

Besides having a laptop and projector borrowed last minute to display the code for our discussion (faster than having to write it on the board and thus getting to cover more ground) I also had them photocopy a printout of the code first before I started the lecture. The file itself was also available for anyone who wanted a copy, on the desktop of the laptop used.

Now I got their attention, especially in emphasizing that the comments will be written only on the board and not in their printouts.

So they were copying and understanding at the same time, as I kept asking them to review some basic commands and operations.

There was actually even a comment from one of the students about why it is that when I'm discussing the code, it looks so simple, but when it's staring at them from the exam page, it's intimidating and uncomprehensible as hell. Lack of review, I guess.

Some of the parts that are new to them were accepting three digits, and multiplying them by ten so that at the end of the loop they would have the hundreds times tens time ones value already, revising the limits of the accept-digit loop to take in less than ten choices, and how to store bit size information without disturbing the other bits, and saving everything by byte.

And there was also a query if the exam in this class will be the same as the changed one in the Digital Design class, as they preferred that.

Session 2091 are already thinking of greater probability of passing. Class dismissed.