First-Class Ass

Got the first of the results in today, Objects & Algorithms (C++) coursework: 86%

Quite happy with that, puts me in the “1st Class” bracket, not that it counts this year towards any grade (that starts next year). Pleased not least because C programming (in pure, ++, or # variants) will be the course of most potential employment/earning benefit. Other scores I know who did all parts of the coursework, whose code worked, etc., are 60% and 63%.

That’s just the coursework (which will be 70% of overall mark). I checked my answers for the O&A exam, I utterly knobbed-up one of the four questions. Was a “trace the code” question, I went lunatic in an early step, which fed through much of the rest of the answer. Bah! It’ll cost me a good few percent. Nothing to REALLY worry about (wasn’t a conceptual failure, should still get a good grade), but I’m annoyed because I was debating answering a different question instead of that one & should’ve got near-enough full marks for it. Something to bear in mind.

Am in the process of moving. Packing boxes for storage (handily enough there’s a new facility next-door to the University) and moving to Edinburgh for the summer. Have been (very, very kindly) offered rent-free accommodation. It’ll provide a mechanism to get out of my (modest) overdrafts and hoard-in some cash for next term. That’s if I don’t drink, smoke, pop, snort & blow it first.

How to celebrate, though? Mmm. I know. Let’s have some unrelated Sexy Star Wars!!

One of the ladies. And the Spartans.