http://acm.uiowa.edu/ en-gb The content and opinions posted on this site do not reflect the views or opinions of the University of Iowa or the Department of Computer Science. William Dibbern - iowa.acm@nospam.com iowa.acm@nospam.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:46:10 -0600 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:46:10 -0600 http://backend.userland.com/rss e107 (http://e107.org) 60 http://acm.uiowa.edu/images/adminlogo.png http://acm.uiowa.edu/ 88 31 Search ACM - University of Iowa query http://acm.uiowa.edu/search.php http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8382 thomas wrote ...

Holstein is very entertaining, i sat in on one of his classes.


Holstien is entertaining but I found his class really hard. He rambled and i wasn't sure how to take notes on that. It is probably my learning style that didn't work on that class. There were 2 super duper easy classes that I took.

1) Intro to Acting.....are you kidding me this was pretty much adult play time. The only hard part was keeping a journal and the final scene. I guilt tripped the prof into a good grade.

2) Intro to environmental science (not sure on the course name. tried to find it on the CS page but they redid it so I having a hard time finding it). This was soo simple I don't think I read anything ever. I think we spent a couple days on converting units to/from moles.

Now that I think about it both these classes were taken on short semesters. Most of the summer/winter classes they offer are pretty good. I got bit in the butt by Database class offered over the summer. The prof kept saying he is a very generous grader and then red marked my test b/c of Capitazation errors on SQL statements.]]> nohr<borisgraphix@nospam.com> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:08:22 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8382 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 thomas<tom-hornbeck@nospam.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:04 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 thomas<tom-hornbeck@nospam.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:35:12 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8381 thomas<tom-hornbeck@nospam.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:32:16 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8381 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8382 thomas<tom-hornbeck@nospam.com> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:25:36 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8382 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8458
Come test time if you have all your notes typed up a study sheet is just a matter of copy/pasting info.]]> nohr<borisgraphix@nospam.com> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:05:45 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8458 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8458
I couldn't have said it better myself. Paragraph three is a particular annoyance I have this semester with one of my courses.]]> Nick<nicholasjarnold@nospam.com> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:29:19 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8458 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8456 BJ<bjdibbern@nospam.com> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:09:19 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8456 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8456
After tonight's LAN did anyone else feel sick?]]> Austin<austinlaugesen@nospam.com> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:59:54 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8456 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 BJ<bjdibbern@nospam.com> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:37:42 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 BJ wrote ...

I'm looking forward to seeing Mass Effect 2, Assasin's Creed 2, and but am personally preparing to lose my life to Modern Warfare 2 in under 14 days lol


I've been playing CoD Modern Warfare 2 for the past couple days and I can say that it is VERY fun. I highly recommend purchase once it's released officially. Great graphics/sound, very fun gameplay, realistic enemy death, and fun missions. The only complaint I have is that sometimes when running and trying to turn it can be difficult...but that is mostly due to the limitations of console games and not this particular implementation.]]> Nick<nicholasjarnold@nospam.com> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:11:48 -0600 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 Jon wrote ...

Chris works for Pearson publishing unless something drastically changed in the last month.


Interesting, something must have changed from when I last asked him about his job situation. I thought the Epic thing was all locked up.

Good to know!]]> JT<jtkimbell@nospam.com> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:17:56 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 Jon<jonhath@nospam.com> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:10:56 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446
as for the updates thing, that's really cool, because future generations of IT Directors may want to add on, and i was already planning to use something like svn anyways for future implementations. C# sounds like the way to go then, so perhaps i'll get it started soon. Thanks for the input guys!]]> Matt G<mgcub21@nospam.com> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:49 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446
Another plus is if you want to publish updates to the application, it's fairly easy in Visual Studio to configure your program to automatically check and install updates from a server.

Did I mention Visual Studio? Need I say more?]]> Tyler<tyler-jensen@nospam.com> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:05:53 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 BJ<bjdibbern@nospam.com> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:29:36 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446
i also feel like either one of these languages are sort of on the forefront of programming at the moment, with a lot of people looking for students out of college with knowloedge of C# and/or Python if i'm not mistaken, so unless i'm wrong either one would be a great resume padder; but the question is, which one would be better in the long run?]]> Matt G<mgcub21@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:29:00 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446
Basically, Python is probably easier to connect to DB with, C# is probably easier to make a nice GUI with.

You can weight the 2 options, but for a larger project like this, I usually go with the C#/Java-type language over the scripting language.]]> JT<jtkimbell@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:47 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446

• Tracks current DJ via login, and thusly tracks their played tracks to report to the website

• Gives them the option to change their displayed name and a DJ Bio

• Program itself achieves this my connecting to our online database in order to select the track, or enter it if it has never been played before (SQL)

• Desktop-based application, not an Applet

My question is, based off of these things, what language should I develop the new version of this program in? I plan to move away from Java. I'm thinking about either Python or C#, and I'm looking for something that works well with SQL databases and also something that gives me the option for implementing new features and a new, nicer looking UI. What do you guys think?]]> Matt G<mgcub21@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:26:24 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8446 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 JT<jtkimbell@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:36:47 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 Nick<nicholasjarnold@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:25:31 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8429 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435 Nick<nicholasjarnold@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:23:38 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 JT<jtkimbell@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:19:53 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4177 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435
What about keeping your music library up to date or sync'd across computers using Subversion? I know it might be kind of stupid with some of the other options available, but I always thought it might be an interesting thing to try.]]> JT<jtkimbell@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:16:14 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435
I use Subversion running through Apache on Windows Server 2003 at work and Subversion running through Apache on Linux at home. Both work flawlessly and are quick. I chose Subversion due to it's ease of use, 3rd party support (very nice integration with Visual Studio) and performance.

I know a couple people that have used Git and I have not heard complaints about it, but my only real experience is with Subversion and I can reccomend it.]]> Nick<nicholasjarnold@nospam.com> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:47:41 -0500 http://acm.uiowa.edu/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8435