Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

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

In my computer systems organization lab class yesterday that was discussing assembly language, the exercise that I gave them after discussing about the various add and subtract operations was to accept two one-digit inputs and display the up-to-two-digit sum.

Most of the students (eighty percent of them) were able to get it before the three hour period was up.

For some reason, they all waited around and helped the last twenty percent in finishing the exercise before leaving.

They even commented on it as an all-for-one-and-one-for-all attitude they know they normally do not have.

But that is not what this part of the post is about. What it is about though, is that earlier today, I was looking for a PDF file on one of the computers in the laboratory that the students used.

One of the files I found was an exercise in a computer architecture class of one of my co-teachers, that started out with the same problem – two-digit sum from two one-digit inputs – GAVE THE CODE, then asked for some editions of relatively more complex tasks.

I do not think the students saw this though. Because otherwise, they would not be going online looking for sample assembly language programs, and they would not have stayed to help that last one-fifth of the class on specific parts of their code.

I mean, they would have just told the rest to copy the code they found either in one of the computers or on the web and not hung around to wait for the minority to copy something.

I am also somewhat surprised with this batch that despite all their bugging about the lesson, making me repeat it several times during the lecture discussion, they do still end up finishing the exercise with minimum handholding or spoon-feeding from the teacher.

On the other hand though, they do always seem to be surprised during our daily start-of-the-period exercise even though the topic is something we had discussed previously.

I am talking about those who did not take switching theory before computer systems organization.

Most of the time, those, who did take switching theory, get high scores in the exercise.

But how many meetings of prodding will it take these higher level irregulars to borrow the textbook and review?

Maybe it will just a little more, if I keep up this holding back of enough information during the lectures.

Session 2825 realizes it has been a long while since specific subjects and lesson topics have been written about here. Class dismissed.