cs373

Midterm 2 finished

Our class recently had our 2nd midterm in CS373 which wraps up the Database Design chapter of the semester as well.  After reading that textbook I can safely state that database design thoroughly bores me and am glad to be finished with it.
I was expecting quite a bit more regular expression questions on [...]


Australian Voting

Our latest project for CS 373 was to create a model that resolves ballots within an Australian voting system.  However this voting method also goes by preferential voting and we specifically modelled the instant-runoff version.  Simply put, preferential voting is to rank the candidates on a ballot as opposed to voting for a single individual.  [...]


Midterm!

So my first midterm of the semester just had to land on Friday the 13th, not that I’m suspicious or anything.
Unlike past semesters, I really haven’t been slacking off so studying for the test was less “last minute cramming/speed reading” and more review.  I’m not sure what to exepct from Downing’s tests but today’s wasn’t [...]