Intro CS Blooper

I feel like an arsehole right now. I forgot to change the output to god-damned lowercase on an intro CS project and managed to score 90…..

Any way,

Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest, that is how my intellect is deteriorating. I feel like a n00b. Bloody spec was so long for such a short POS.

Anyway, I was trying to use matplotlib to do interesting stuff in my discrete math class (I actually made a blooper in homework 1 over there as well, awesome kick off, isn’t it?).

Anyway, with my awesome track record in carelessness, this was supposed to happen. Did any of you guys blow up intro CS classes as well?

Anyway, we have moved to proof theory in Discrete Math and I have seen the weirdest names in the world already- modus ponens ?

Exams approaching soon. This blog is really deteriorating in quality.

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Published:: 09.19.08 / 7pm

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Mike Lowe 09.19.08 / 7pm

I had a EE professor there that shall remain nameless, who was using ‘^’ to denote logical and in a discrete math class. He spent the entire lecture trying to explain why on every line he had “and M”. Turns out he went from a pc to his mac and didn’t convert the text file a fact which every person in the class realized except the professor realized within 5 minutes. So take heart, you can make very careless mistakes repeatedly and become a tenured professor at Purdue.
Patrick Stinson 09.19.08 / 8pm

Yeah, I made mistakes. I ended up at the top of my class at QWM, but never went to class and subsequently never turned in course work. Mistake? Not really. When I wasn’t in class I was working on audio/gui/OO fundamentals for fun, and now getting hired isn’t a problem. good luck
Rob C 09.19.08 / 8pm

Yeah, I was top of the data mining class until I made the most ridiculously simple error on the third question which meant every subsequent answer was incorrect.
I even discussed it with my tutor on the way out of the room before he marked it.
Oh well… exams are a crude method of measuring knowledge anyway!
Alex 09.20.08 / 12pm

It makes me sad to see you beating yourself up over these minor errors. Don’t buy too heavily into the values of the academy. If you have truly mastered the practical skills they are trying to impart, that’s all you’re really going to have to worry about, in the long run. It’s good to strive to be accurate, but it’s easier to do that if you’re kind to yourself when you (inevitably) make mistakes.

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I am Shriphani Palakodety – an undergraduate in Purdue’s CS department. My interests in computing involve:

Machine Learning
Natural user interfaces
Machine Translation
Information Retrieval

I recently finished an internship with Microsoft in Redmond, WA with the Productivity Search team and my work involved Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Search. I also code in my spare time and you can find snippets on this blog or in my public repos : http://github.com/shriphani

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