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Immediately after camp was De Anza. After a failed attempt to get a student ID (I didn’t have any identification to begin with), I went to Spanish from 3 to 5:10 PM (Mondays through Thursdays every week), ate dinner (brought my own leftover lunch), registered at the lab, and went to C from 6-8:30 PM (Mondays and Wednesdays) (It’s supposed to go from 6 to 10, but the last half is for labs and I typically ditch them).

I have a spanish teacher from Venezuela who makes learning spanish much harder than it should be — it’s not the spanish I don’t understand now, it’s her damn English. Plus she’s forcing us to buy textbooks!

My C teacher (who is Indian) has been teaching programming for approximately 30 years, and yet does not know that memory allocation cannot be done implicitly, and that arrays must have a hardcoded size or be defined with malloc(). Sheesh. Intermediate C my ass. I got somewhat disappointed that 30% of our grade will be homework based. I got 100% in beginning C, but only because homework was exempt for me because of my “exceptional performance” on examinations (reminds me of chemistry with Mr Woo — honors and AP :P). I don’t think I set a good impression by telling my teacher that she is wrong on the array/memory ordeal.

The computers with flat-screen display panels in the CAOS/CIS lab are pretty nice.

Anyway, anyone else taking summerschool at De Anza?