Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Tuesday, 22 January 2002

# 2:45 PM

I'd just like to say that wget kicks ass. That is all.

# 9:30 AM

No dreams last night. Instead, I got to wake up at something like 3 AM and see my clock blinking 12:00 at me. There must've been a power cut, or I kicked the plug in my sleep (it's right next to the bed). I spent the rest of the night waking up periodically and wondering what time it actually was and how I'd know it was time to get up and go to class.

Of course, when I did get up—awakened by the sound of the downstairsnik running her shower—I found that it was only 7 AM, and that the earliest class I have today is at 11 AM (not 9:30 as I'd thought).

classes

These are what I'm considering:

CS 264: Implementation of Programming Languages

Compiler construction. Lexical analysis, syntax analysis. Semantic analysis code generation and optimization. Storage management. Run-time organization.

CS 260: User-Interfaces to Computer Systems

Design and implementation of user-interfaces to computer systems. Software and hardware architectures for personal workstations. Object-oriented programming systems. Form-based user-interfaces. Window and display management abstractions. Case studies of naive- and expert-user interfaces.

I'm only going to take one, but I'll sit in on the first couple meetings of each. Unless 264 is amazingly exciting, or 260 amazingly dull, I expect I'll end up taking 260.