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First off, may I show you all, Slaughter the World:
It's from a webcomic situated in an MMORPG world very very similar to World of Warcraft called Looking For Group
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My dad downloaded Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis and the entire family has been watching SG-1 since the beginning of summer. We're at Season 8 at the moment. My mom pronounces "Goa'uld" as "Gah-oood". Kinda funny. I'm actually now a pretty big fan of Stargate. Definitely a different feel from Star Trek. Not so much of the same nose-in-the-air feel that Star Trek had.
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Classes:
CPSC 312
Kurt Eiselt
Pretty funny guy. Methodically explains and demonstrates code without being boring and repetitive. Clearly likes teaching. This course, however, is not so much fun. The two programming languages we are learning in this class are Prolog and Haskell. Prolog is ridiculously odd in comparison to other programming languages. It's the equivalent to your teaching allowing you to bring a cheat sheet to write an exam but not allowed to bring your notes or textbook.
CPSC 322
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. On paper, it sounds pretty interesting. But in the class, you learn the mechanics of how everything is done in terms of algorithms. The prof is clearly well educated but he seems to take offense with people being slightly distracted in his class. Teaches well but isn't very user friendly.
COGS 401
Lawrence Ward/Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
A class where guest professors talk about the different things that they're researching on in Cognitive Systems. It's incredibly interesting for those who are into figuring out how people work and think. Then again, you do have to chug out about 1200 word essays every two weeks. It isn't much on it's own but for someone like me who has a hard time multitasking a writing assignment and programming assignments, it's not really all that much fun. Even if you don't register for the class, I recommend sitting in the lectures. You might learn a thing or two.
Lawrence is pretty nice. Very knowledgable. Looks like Kane from Command and Conquer but without the evil. Eric is also very knowledgable. So knowledgable, that if he thinks you're an idiot or doing something stupid, he won't hesitate to tell you rather loudly. Students suspect that he does it out of tough love, but we can't be sure.
COGS 402
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
The research course. You do a research proposal in the beginning. You have a presentation of your findings at the end. You do the research in between. You write a big juicy end of term lab report. Wheeee. I'm doing stuff on attention and common onset masking. I'll be running the experiments so it'll be interesting.
Game Developers Association
A club at UBC that was started last year. We make games, basically. I was brought on as the treasurer because I was told that I didn't have to do anything Last year, it sucked because only programmers were capable of making games. A lot of our members left because of that. Hopefully we can real them back in by:
1) Introducing them to basic programing that have them directly interact with languages like Flash.
2) Introducing them to IDEs like RPG Maker XP.
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I'm gonna busy this semester.
And I'm rambling. I be quiet now.
Click to viewIt's from a webcomic situated in an MMORPG world very very similar to World of Warcraft called Looking For Group
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My dad downloaded Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis and the entire family has been watching SG-1 since the beginning of summer. We're at Season 8 at the moment. My mom pronounces "Goa'uld" as "Gah-oood". Kinda funny. I'm actually now a pretty big fan of Stargate. Definitely a different feel from Star Trek. Not so much of the same nose-in-the-air feel that Star Trek had.
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Classes:
CPSC 312
Kurt Eiselt
Pretty funny guy. Methodically explains and demonstrates code without being boring and repetitive. Clearly likes teaching. This course, however, is not so much fun. The two programming languages we are learning in this class are Prolog and Haskell. Prolog is ridiculously odd in comparison to other programming languages. It's the equivalent to your teaching allowing you to bring a cheat sheet to write an exam but not allowed to bring your notes or textbook.
CPSC 322
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. On paper, it sounds pretty interesting. But in the class, you learn the mechanics of how everything is done in terms of algorithms. The prof is clearly well educated but he seems to take offense with people being slightly distracted in his class. Teaches well but isn't very user friendly.
COGS 401
Lawrence Ward/Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
A class where guest professors talk about the different things that they're researching on in Cognitive Systems. It's incredibly interesting for those who are into figuring out how people work and think. Then again, you do have to chug out about 1200 word essays every two weeks. It isn't much on it's own but for someone like me who has a hard time multitasking a writing assignment and programming assignments, it's not really all that much fun. Even if you don't register for the class, I recommend sitting in the lectures. You might learn a thing or two.
Lawrence is pretty nice. Very knowledgable. Looks like Kane from Command and Conquer but without the evil. Eric is also very knowledgable. So knowledgable, that if he thinks you're an idiot or doing something stupid, he won't hesitate to tell you rather loudly. Students suspect that he does it out of tough love, but we can't be sure.
COGS 402
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
The research course. You do a research proposal in the beginning. You have a presentation of your findings at the end. You do the research in between. You write a big juicy end of term lab report. Wheeee. I'm doing stuff on attention and common onset masking. I'll be running the experiments so it'll be interesting.
Game Developers Association
A club at UBC that was started last year. We make games, basically. I was brought on as the treasurer because I was told that I didn't have to do anything Last year, it sucked because only programmers were capable of making games. A lot of our members left because of that. Hopefully we can real them back in by:
1) Introducing them to basic programing that have them directly interact with languages like Flash.
2) Introducing them to IDEs like RPG Maker XP.
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I'm gonna busy this semester.
And I'm rambling. I be quiet now.