Let's hear it!

[Chavo]

I went because the tests were given with 1-day notice.  Of course, I also got back at my 1st-semester roomate by accidently failing to tell him when those days were. That made it all worth while.

[iago]

I went because the tests were given with 1-day notice.  Of course, I also got back at my 1st-semester roomate by accidently failing to tell him when those days were. That made it all worth while.

You should have went every other day. Either you find out about a test the next day, or you find out about a test THAT day.

[Hitmen]

For the past hour my professor has been going through the code for a project we are doing and pretty much reading the javadoc comments to us. I'm about ready to kill myself.

ach.  Skip the lecture?

Yeah. I never went to lecture for basic programming, still got a 98% in it.

It's not a basic programming class though. It's a software design class, a place where I definitely need some work and so usually I benefit from going. The other lectures so far was him actually talking about useful stuff, but this one was just pain.

[Sidoh]

software engineering was one of the least enjoyable computer science classes i've ever taken.  ugh.

[Chavo]

I went because the tests were given with 1-day notice.  Of course, I also got back at my 1st-semester roomate by accidently failing to tell him when those days were. That made it all worth while.

You should have went every other day. Either you find out about a test the next day, or you find out about a test THAT day.

I considered that, but it would have become too easy to skip more than one in a row and I had my laptop anyway so it wasn't completely painful.

[Hitmen]

software engineering was one of the least enjoyable computer science classes i've ever taken.  ugh.

I am currently taking one of the TWO discrete math courses my school requires (it used to be one class, but they split it into two for double the pain). I have a feeling I will hate them way wayyyyy more.

[Sidoh]

software engineering was one of the least enjoyable computer science classes i've ever taken.  ugh.

I am currently taking one of the TWO discrete math courses my school requires (it used to be one class, but they split it into two for double the pain). I have a feeling I will hate them way wayyyyy more.

I like discrete math waayyyyy more than I like software engineering.  The problems are intellectually stimulating as opposed to tedious.

I suppose I have a bit of a bias, though... I trend toward the more mathy type of computer science.

[warz]

math blows

[Sidoh]

there's just something about math i like.  it's much more... honest than other subjects.  when you're told something, you're given unequivocal proof that what you're told is right.

don't get me wrong, i like subjects where this isn't the case, but i always feel like there's something missing when i don't see a proof.

[Towelie]

there's just something about math i like.  it's much more... honest than other subjects.  when you're told something, you're given unequivocal proof that what you're told is right.

don't get me wrong, i like subjects where this isn't the case, but i always feel like there's something missing when i don't see a proof.

Now... take that and apply it to the real world. Now you have physics, so its even better!

[iago]

there's just something about math i like.  it's much more... honest than other subjects.  when you're told something, you're given unequivocal proof that what you're told is right.

don't get me wrong, i like subjects where this isn't the case, but i always feel like there's something missing when i don't see a proof.

Now... take that and apply it to the real world. Now you have physics, so its even better!

Except that nothing is ever really proven properly in physics, only proven in terms of other things that aren't necessarily proven.

[Sidoh]

there's just something about math i like.  it's much more... honest than other subjects.  when you're told something, you're given unequivocal proof that what you're told is right.

don't get me wrong, i like subjects where this isn't the case, but i always feel like there's something missing when i don't see a proof.

Now... take that and apply it to the real world. Now you have physics, so its even better!

physics almost always relies on empirical proof, which isn't proof at all.  it's evidence.  mathematical proof allows true knowledge.  even in physics (especially in physics, actually), i feel that the professor could be lying to me with all of his hand-waving nonsense.

[Towelie]

there's just something about math i like.  it's much more... honest than other subjects.  when you're told something, you're given unequivocal proof that what you're told is right.

don't get me wrong, i like subjects where this isn't the case, but i always feel like there's something missing when i don't see a proof.

Now... take that and apply it to the real world. Now you have physics, so its even better!

physics almost always relies on empirical proof, which isn't proof at all.  it's evidence.  mathematical proof allows true knowledge.  even in physics (especially in physics, actually), i feel that the professor could be lying to me with all of his hand-waving nonsense.

True knowledge of what? I don't see what "knowledge" you get from mathematical proofs.

[deadly7]

True knowledge of what? I don't see what "knowledge" you get from mathematical proofs.

And that's why you're in the navy!

[Hitmen]

True knowledge of what? I don't see what "knowledge" you get from mathematical proofs.

The true knowledge of math! so you can do more proofs! so you can get more knowledge! so you can do more proofs! so you can get more knowledge! so you can...