I went to see the CSUN Graduation Evaluation department today. They have a physical office, but I’d always called them on the phone.
“When will you have my Grad Check done?”
“Oh, well, you submitted your Grad Check application late–”
“–late, six months ago–”
“Yes, yes. So, we should have an answer for you [...]
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California State University
Northridge
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Dear Student:
I am pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to the Computer Science Master of Science program as a fully classified student. On behalf of the faculty and staff I welcome you to the University and wish you success in your [...]
From my sister Jan’s son Craig:
“I just checked my grades and I got the 4.0 this semester.”
…and those are sweet, sweet Graduate Degree grades!
My Database professor combines Hawaiian shirts with Zen aphorisms.
“You will love this class! You will hate this class! This class is easy! This class is hard! Is hard because you will put off your project until the last minute. And the computer, he hate the [...]
My nephew Craig is applying to several universities to try to get into their Ph.D. programs, and some of the professors were flaking out on him, promising glowing letters of recommendation but being slow about it. It got down to the final day (the letters had to arrive the next day), and he still didn’t [...]
Classics of Software Engineering: “Design Patterns”
(One of a series of short reviews on books which have profoundly affected my own programming style, and which have made me a better Software Engineer)
Design Patterns
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (The Gang of Four)
Addison-Wesley, 1995
This book was the one which finally unseated “Software Tools” as my own personal “Most [...]
(An e-mail to my Linguistics Professor and her aide)
Dear Linguists,
Alright, but now that my mind is opened, how do I close it again?
My friend John Blackburn and I were chatting, and he tried to say, “unmanaged code” (talking about computer software) and it came out sounding like “unmanaged goat”, and I couldn’t stop myself [...]
I left Georgia Tech lo these many years ago to accept a job, thinking, “I’ll finish the degree out in California; how hard could it be? I only need two classes.”
Well, it has turned out to be pretty hard. Georgia Tech has a rule (the 50-Hour Rule) that the last 50 hours of your [...]