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17 years ago
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classes i'd like to take:

engl 236 intro to language and linguistics
engl 238 the structure and function of language
engl 428 creative writing

mus 103 aural skills i
mus 105 music theory i
lucas's avatar
17 years ago
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lucas
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mta 106 intermediate photography

art 205 painting
Chiken's avatar
17 years ago
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Chiken
Don't Let Your Walls Down
I want to take classes in radiology and continue french
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17 years ago
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DaGr8Gatzby
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I would love to study Latin again. I also believe I might start performing with my trumpet at U of H
 
17 years ago
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dbrown
latin would be fun to learn, i've tried to learn it before but to no avail (i have trouble with languages...)
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17 years ago
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DaGr8Gatzby
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Latin is uber difficult.
andyp's avatar
17 years ago
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andyp
nothing is wrong - what are you scared of?
taking spelunking this semester :)

oh yeah, and drawing, cause i suck.
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17 years ago
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phi_
... and let the Earth be silent after ye.
Currently sitting in CCNA cert class. Not really for fun, just to shut my mother up. Her cash, not mine. *shrug*
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17 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
Not an entirely useless cert.
 
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dbrown
in my experience, nobody cares unless it's an np or above...
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17 years ago
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lucas
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still better than a+/net+/..
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17 years ago
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Chiken
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true fucking story
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17 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
na is needed for an np.
 
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dbrown
lucas + nny: both good points, just relaying my dissapointment when i found out

in other news i'll be teaching "Intro to Windows Scripting", just got the job today and class starts in one week exactly. i'm a little upset with the windows in the class name because the class is actually about perl, which in my opinion, is of little use in windows...
anyone have any good uses for perl in windows 2k3? i'm open to suggestions.
lucas's avatar
17 years ago
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lucas
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like i said before--administrative tasks

suppose you're running mysql (people often run mysql on windows, believe it or not). make a script to optimize certain tables hourly. make a script to record some log stats and then rotate the logs.

make a perl script to rename a bunch of files in a directory. i'd rather be using perl than batch scripting.

make a perl script that uses nmap (win32) to scan 3 servers hourly (for absolutely no reason).

keep going..!
 
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dbrown
gracias, lucas.
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17 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
you could use perl to take control of iexplorer and do QA stuff. I used to use it to compliment some software for pentesting. Perl OLE32 stuff is weird though, and kinda an advanced topic.

it's great for doing stuff like database -> access -> excel, or pulling mp3 headers and building excel / db stuff.

there's lots of neat fail manipulation stuff you can do. and i dunno if active perl can use the chart3d module... but that's always a fun module to learn. Makes some seriously pretty graphs.
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17 years ago
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Chiken
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dbrown the teacher! so when you takin over for tolten?
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17 years ago
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The thing that sucks about Perl on windows is when you get to permissions.... Windows absolutely blows my fucking mind on their concept of permissions.
 
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dbrown
after reading the previous teacher's syllabus, class outline, and homework i'm convinced the title of the class is way off. it's pretty much an intro to programming using perl as a jumpoff point. he gets into sorting and searching algorithms, strong vs. weak typing, etc... not to mention the only required book for the class must not have been much use to the students as he goes way beyond it repeadedly. the best example i saw was during week 3 when he started talking about multi-dimensional arrays being referenced in a hash...

at this point i'm just going to teach it as a perl scripting class and drop a lot of the shit he crammed in there, cgi stuff mostly, i'll skim it, but there's not enough time to cover what i consider necessary for perl-cgi programming in one semester. i don't want to release a bunch of students with enough knowledge to be dangerous that don't realize how dangerous it can be.