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

Minor milestone yesterday that I didn't mention: two thousand six hundred posts in two journals in almost six years and two months of virtual presence. That's about 1.15 posts per day and still counting up - hopefully.

@@ Today the director of the school of engineering talked to me because there was one student, computer engineering who has complained about currently taking one subject which seems to be a rehash of another subject, and is questioning taking another seemingly duplicate subject next term, based on what he was discussed with some of the old students who have taken the subject.

I had to defend to the director that we are at the cusp of a change in the flowchart of the computer science students. There are now two batches emerging for those taking up computer systems organization: those who have taken switching theory and those who have not. Because of the latter, when addressing the topics of this subject, those with no prior knowledge have to be considered.

So there is a somewhat extensive review of the previous topics that have to be made.

Now as for the computer architecture, of course there's going to be an overlap of topics with computer circuit fundamentals, particularly assembly language.

But the previous batches of either that I've taught before did not have that overlap, that is they either took one subject or the other but not both.

When the first batch of computer engineering students that I know did take both, I had to change the course outline to be slightly different, seeing as computer science students are better at picking up new programming languages.

So for the class that was majority CS students that have not taken up assembly language before, the range of topics was in fact more extensive, comparable to taking two computer programming courses instead of just one.

Thankfully the director listened to my explanations, and accepted that we (some of my co-teachers and I) are making moves to change the coverage of each now that there are more computer engineering students that are taking both subjects.

Well, education, after all, has to adapt with the times.

Session 2603 thanks open minded folk. Class dismissed.