Programming and School

Posted by Darthvender on Feb. 7, 2011, 12:17 a.m.

Ah, it's been a while since I was on.

Anyway, a whole semester has gone by since my last post, and I've been pretty content so far.

First off, the last semester.

Last semester I was working in Principles of Math 11, Physics 11, PE 11 (Online) and English 11 (Also online).

Principles of Math… What can I say? It wasn't overly-difficult, and I understood it. Not really a lot going on there.

Physics 11… I was frightened going into this course. Seriously, the prospect of Physics was damn scary after 4 years of near-blackout. However, this has got to be one of the easiest courses I have ever taken. No homework, and the actual work was easy enough for me to have 99% for the first few months. I suppose that coming from a background of programming really helped me understand a lot of it, and it accounts for my ability to think relatively.

PE 11… I hate it. I'm still not done, but that's no surprise: Each year I'm supposed to log 100 hours, do a few assignments and be on my way. I did the assignments first thing and now procrastinate every other minute about going on the treadmill.

English 11… Since Grade 3 I have had a brain for English, and I learned to bullshit my teachers frequently, landing me with 96% this last semester with very little effort. When I say "bullshit," though, I mean that I can take any subject and go on and on about it until it sounds like a university paper on the subject. It just comes natural to me.

This semester I'm taking Socials 11 (Required, or I wouldn't touch this), Physics 12, PE 11 (Still online), Game Programming 11 (Hells yes online) and Chemistry 11 (Online again).

Socials 11… I hate Socials. I really do. Unless it's related to Star Wars trivia, I have no mind for facts (In the top 0.8% in Star Wars trivia until they shut it down, thankyouverymuch). Besides this, I really don't care about Canada's history. Canada's history is boring to me.

Physics 12… I loved 11 so much, I decided to join my friends (All of them in Grade 12… I cannot stand any of the 11's) in 12. So far pretty easy, and the teacher has given me and my programmer friend (Programming an entire OS into his calculator… and has a fully animated Rick Roll WITH SOUND onboard)… privileges. As he put it, we do not have to listen to him. While the other students are learning, we are allowed to take the worksheets from the coming days and do them, or talk amongst ourselves without reprimand. Aw yeah.

PE 11… Bah.

Chemistry 11… I hate Chem, as well. I cannot make heads nor tails out of its jibber jabber, but from what I've seen it helps you get into computer programming courses at most colleges and uni's for whatever reason.

Game Programming 11… Based on my 4-5 years of programming within GML, I can safely say that I am going to pass this course. Within the first two days, I had finished slightly less than half the course, all of which was in a new programming language. Not only that, but I got 100% on all of the assignments, too. However, the language of the course is BASIC, so that might be a hint.

So, yeah. That's a few months of updates. And no, my Star Destroyer is NOT finished. Although I have only a small amount left now:

http://i.imgur.com/8TqWz.jpg

Anyway, I bid you…

…Good day.

-Darthvender

Comments

F1ak3r 13 years, 2 months ago

Quote:
Canada's history is boring to me.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/

JuurianChi 13 years, 2 months ago

Quote:
Online Physical Education? wat
Wanking to Pron?

Darthvender 13 years, 2 months ago

Online PE just consists of 100 hours of treadmill/bowling, basically.

Graydon 13 years, 2 months ago

Cant you just say you went on the treadmill? And Canadian History is horribly boring…

Darthvender 13 years, 2 months ago

If I get caught lying about my hours, then I fail (My parents would report me!)

The Avatrol 13 years, 2 months ago

*facepalm*

KaBob799 13 years, 2 months ago

Does wii bowling count? =p

Darthvender 13 years, 2 months ago

For a while, drumming in Rock Band was allowed, but that sort of lost its appeal in the eyes of my PE teacher.