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first semester back at georgia tech...

john turner

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and i got a 4.0 :D :hyper:. in fact, in all my classes i had a 97 or above average.

not only that but i was hired to be a teaching assistant for one of my computer science classes next semester. the class is focused on discrete math, propositional calculus and proofs. i've been a programmer since 1984, when i got my first apple ][e in 10th grade, but this stuff was all new and very interesting to me.

so yay me. thought i'd share :D. not bad for not having set foot in a classroom in 18 years.
 
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The state gave me an Apple IIE back in 1985 for being mostly blind, but all I ever learned to do on it was type and play Space Invaders until I got a kill screen.
 
Congrats on the result! Around here, we're graded out of 10 points, so, initially, I was like :eek: when I saw your result :p

not only that but i was hired to be a teaching assistant for one of my computer science classes next semester. the class is focused on discrete math

I have discrete math next semester. Looking forward to it :D

All your professors only gave you A's because they didn't want to be banned from talkbass should they ever sign up.

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Clearly you are sandbagging. You need to take some harder classes than "beginning bass guitar" and "introduction to internet forum moderating".

heh. yeah, a lot of the stuff was something of a review. i had 3 cs classes (1 was p/f), psych 1 and calc 1. i had calc before when i was pursuing the first degree but that was about 24 years ago, so it was almost like it was all new. i remember the day before class started the calc prof emailed everyone review problems and i couldn't make heads or tails of them heh. amazing what some studying can accomplish. the psych class was fun, actually - needed it for the AI course plan i am pursuing - and wasn't too hard, although it was a lot of material. by semester's end we had been tested on an entire ~1000 page textbook.

and the class that i am ta'ing was almost entirely new stuff - combinatorics (i.e. if you go to dunkin donuts and they have 13 types of donuts, how many different arrangements of 2 dozen could you have if you needed to pick at least 2 jelly donuts and no more than 4 chocolate frosted donuts - that type of stuff) and probability was a big part of the material we covered, along with inductive proofs, logical reasoning, finding primes etc. great all around cs theory-type class, really neat stuff.

All your professors only gave you A's because they didn't want to be banned from talkbass should they ever sign up.


But I digress. Congratulations.

believe it or not, i know of at least one professor from georgia tech who has been a long time member here.

That is impressive. Any perfects in there?

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out of the 14 tests and 3 finals i had this semester, i only had 1 score below a 95 (an 86), and 7 tests and 1 final of 100 or higher.

final average in calc was 100.7% (he gave some extra credit on one of the tests :D).

i had 297 out of 300 in psych - my psych prof told me that was the first time anyone ever had a score that high in her class.

my python and intro to robotics class i ended up with a 99.5%, and the class that i am ta'ing, the intro to discrete math and proofs class my final average was a 97. ironic that that was the lowest one, but in a sense that's why i pursued this one to be a ta for. i'll learn it even better having to help teach it.

Nicely done, John!

My nephew graduated from GT with a Computer Science degree two years ago and is doing quite well now as a software engineer. That degree should open any doors you want opened.

cool. yeah, my first GT degree helped me a lot even though i never got an engineering job (my first degree was electrical engineering). the ultimate result for this time around is actually a master's degree, but i need to get this undergrad stuff out of the way - i'll end up getting sufficient credits to get a 2nd undergrad cs degree on the way.
 
Nerds ;)

But honestly, congrats on doing well! Do you think you found classes and school easier this time around?

i'm approaching things a lot more seriously. i could have done this well the first time, but i was a little too cavalier about things.

for example, i begin seriously studying for a test about a week before. i put in, on average, 20 or so hours of study for each test, spaced over a week or so. this kind of discipline was hard for me when i was 18, but not now.

interestingly enough, i also got a lot of leisure reading in. i found that after studying for a couple hours, a couple hours of reading before bed would help the material "stick". read the entire gaunts ghosts series by dan abnett (~3000 pages) along with eisenhorn and ravenor omnibuses (~800 pages each) during the semester, as i was studying.