8 May 2008 | Threads, queues, persistence…
I thought I was so fucked last Tuesday, the day of my Computer Science AP exam — I oh-so-foolhardily indicated on my Student Pack that I would be taking the AB exam, when our course only teaches the material in the A subset. I was confident in my Java abilities and thought I could learn it all on my own… haha, well, BIG FUCKING MISTAKE. Turns out, there were many more topics than I thought, and I ended up making a desperate cram attempt several nights before the exam. Try learning lists, stacks, queues, maps, trees, hash codes, and GridWorld grid implementations all by yourself in two or three nights. Yeah, it's just not gonna work.
But by some errant fluke of fortune, when I arrived at my testing location on Tuesday morning, I discovered that someone had neglected to order the AB version for me, so I gleefully took the regular A version instead. Which was easy-peasy, by the way.
So… in short, SAVED BY SOMEONE'S FORGETFULNESS. But I still have all this crap about key sets and TreeNodes floating around my head like discarded trash…
Tangent: Note to self: Kill S-chan and/or Yachi.
Tags: computer programming, Java
Amy says:
Haha, lucky! :P Seriously, you were very, very lucky. Care to share some? XP
5:17 pm | Thursday, May 8, 2008
Misaki says:
lol That's kind of funny.
Butterfly effect — wonder how that guy came to forget to order your exam.
Anyway, I remember learning about trees last year — the night before the assignment was due was a long one.
3:03 am | Friday, May 9, 2008
deanna says:
Wow, that is some luck. Congrats!
10:33 pm | Saturday, May 17, 2008
S-chan says:
D:
10:00 pm | Saturday, May 24, 2008