I just got done giving my lecture for my CS 566 class. It went SO well! My handouts and explanation got me through 40 minutes of the lecture, and then several people asked some questions so that ate up some extra time. I basically dove right into client/server architecture, and then I spoke about simple chat system communication using text strings. Then I presented Object Serialization, and my structures that I created to send a message in a more logical and useful way. I made frequent breaks for questions, it seems most everyone was understanding well.
Some of the questions were about the client/server connections, some about the way the threads worked. Sneering Indian Guy also tried to argue with me about my design decisions, so I basically slapped him down with logic to dictate why I had chosen the plan I went with. After about five minutes of going back and forth, he finally yeilded to my plan. He actually came up afterwards and apologized for being argumentative.
My professor was impressed. He said that he hadn’t thought about doing it this way, and he was going to do it with a fixed length string of binary digits. Ugh. After it all fell out, he said he was quite happy and told me I was done with the software if I wanted to be, and now all I have to do is run through my code with the class on Tuesday.
If I could only cut out half of my brain I’d make a pretty good professor. 🙂
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