Re: How's life lately? (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 11:35:38 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > From: Alex  <http://www.gmail.com/~alex.>
 >  > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 14:29:18 -0500
 >  > 
 >  > >Hi, so how are your classes going?
 >  > I'm having fun with  Programming Methodology.

I have no idea what that is.  Does that mean Software Engineering stuff,
like waterfall and agile?

 >  > We have to use terminal for 
 >  > everything and I'm going to learn functional programming through Scala.

I had a co-worker who was really into Scala.  It does sound like a
compelling programming language, but the thing that always held me back
was the fact that it compiled into JVM bytecode, which is a bit slow for
my tastes.

 >  > Introduction To Computation is probably my hardest class. The professor has 
 >  > a doctorate in math, so all we've been doing so far is learning  
 >  > propositional calculus. (I attached a picture of weird slide).

I assume that this also means first order logic.  I loved this stuff.
Hopefully, you'll also learn about discrete mathematics, lambda calculus,
computability, and Godel.

 >  > All my other classes are okay.
 >  > >What are you taking?
 >  > CMPSCI 197C - Programming in C (Seminar)

Well, C can be a good programming language to learn.  I suppose.  It'd
probably be just as easy to pick up on your own.

 >  > CMPSCI 220 - Programming 
 >  > Methodology CMPSCI 250 - Introduction To Computation ECON 103 - 
 >  > Introduction to Microeconomics

Awesome.  You should take more econ classes while at UMass!

 >  > MATH 233 - Multivariate Calculus

Is this like partial derivatives and differential equations?  I never got
to take this and have always regretted it.

Sounds like you're diving pretty fast into the computer science stuff.
That's good.  It's a blast.

 >  > >Do you have to trudge through huge snowbanks to get around?
 >  > Luckily not, they've been quite good about plowing and salting the roads 
 >  > and walkways.
 >  > Inline image 1
 >  > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Noelle < 
 >  > http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg ,http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg, > wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > Hi, so how are your classes going? what are you taking?
 >  > do you have to trudge through huge snowbanks to get around?(OK they
 >  > probably do have maintenance guys shoveling)
 >  > We had to get our roof repaired. Right where the futon is it started
 >  > leaking when we had the big rainstorm in Dec.(actually they have not
 >  > completely fixed it, they need to get more roof tiles). We are going 
 >  > to
 >  > have to get the ceilings fixed and painted too.
 >  > Meanwhile,Robert has an 8 mile bike commute going to new workplace.
 >  > so that's the news. talk to ya later
 >  > Noelle