From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: abuse@mindspring.com (Paul A. Howes) Subject: Re: College, C, etc. Date: 1998/10/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406536937 References: <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net> <6t4dge$t8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6t5mtp$4ho$1@news.indigo.ie> <35FFE58C.5727@ibm.net> <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6ts1q0$vo2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <361DBC60.C153BBAD@earthlink.net> <36228EC3.4F7381FD@domain.nul> <3630b064.23189339@news.supernews.com> <3630C8DC.DF508803@fv.com> <3634DC76.57788481@fv.com> <3638548E.5CB0@dmu.ac.uk> X-Server-Date: 30 Oct 1998 02:57:04 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-30T02:57:04+00:00 List-Id: > Sure. The advisor in question wanted to draw pictures of communicating > finite state machines Basically, he wanted to animate Estelle programs, > which are formal descriptions of network protocols... The other student > trying to do this was using C and XLib,... > ...I wrote a smalltalk program in a > week that would draw a state machine animating, consuming it's input > string and creating it's output string. The prof was sufficiently blown > away at the apparent ease I can relate to this! I took a Java class about a year-and-a-half ago. The project description was to write "a graphically-based, client-server program capable of running on multiple machines in the lab." Okayyyyy... We were using Java, How to Program, by Deitel and Deitel. The teacher said that each team could implement the elevator simulator in the back of the book if we could not come up with a better idea. My partner and I wrote a distributed fractal generator. We had 16 servers rendering it, and as many clients as you want displaying fractals. The teacher's first reaction when he saw the client side was, "Oh, pretty. Are you actually using any servers to create this image?" Then we showed him the terminal we were remote-diplaying all the servers on. After he got his jaw off the floor, he gave us an "A" and walked away shaking his head. -- Return address is invalid to foil the spam-bots. change 'abuse' to 'Black-Cat' if you wish to email me.