Friday, December 14, 2007

Winter break plans

I've actually gotten all A's again so far, with only my cryptography final to go. Quite surprising to me, but I can't really complain. Unfortunately, I tend to get less productive instead of more productive during break (that's what it's called break, I guess?), even though I have no schoolwork to bog me down. In any event, my to-do list:

  1. Sleep.
  2. Study for the Western Civilization I CLEP exam. I need two more gened classes (6 credits), and this exam will satisfy the requirement. I only need a 50%, so I can't imagine myself studying very hard. Hope it doesn't come back to bite me.
  3. Read The Little Book of Semaphores, or at least some of it. I'll probably be helping design a class on concurrent programming next semester, so I figure it's best to advance my knowledge as best I can so I'm not useless.
  4. Sleep.
  5. Look into more web programming. I got bored this week and started trying to scrape together a new template for a blog; you know things are going bad when I start writing HTML and CSS. My hope is to do some stuff with Django, a Python web framework. If no other ideas come to mind, I may end up replacing my blog with a Django site. I haven't completely ruled Pylons out yet, since I still subscribe to the mailing lists, but since the Django book was published recently, hopefully it will provide a better source of documentation. And hopefully the book will be released online during break, or I'll be sad.

I've unfortunately put language-related things behind me for now. If I'm looking for an industry job, it probably isn't very marketable.

3 comments:

Phil Harnish said...

I'm going to try and test out of Western Civilization I too man. I have the book with me and I promised myself that book would be the only one I read this break.

Best of luck dude :D

Unknown said...

I don't see shaim on that list, but if you're going for industry marketability I suppose web programming is better :'(

Anonymous said...

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