Is CS a science or engineering, or maybe something else?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How do you know your professor wasn't having a stroke?  Come to think of it, how do you know you have a brain?  You've never seen it, and like the prison, it seems empty.

I've seen a enough "pop skulls*" to be confident that most to be confident that most humans and humanlike objects have brains.




*TBI due to large caliber rounds exiting the skull.

Damn, stuttering in type. That's some shit, man.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I saw one once. That was enough.

Boru

Sticks with ya, comes at night just to say hi.

I actually saw my own brain once (well, a tiny bit of it). I had surgery to tie off a cerebral aneurysm. They viddied the operation and let me watch the tape in the recovery room.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Sticks with ya, comes at night just to say hi.

I actually saw my own brain once (well, a tiny bit of it). I had surgery to tie off a cerebral aneurysm. They viddied the operation and let me watch the tape in the recovery room.

Boru

I saw the inside of my heart last week. Surprised to see the graffiti in the left ventricle was all spelled correctly.

[FlatAssembler]

So, do you think my Computer Architecture professor Ivan Aleksi was wrong to ask me (rather than some other student) to make the PicoBlaze Assembler and Emulator runnable in a browser, which he needed in case physical laboratory exercises are cancelled (so that students can do the laboratory exercises without having access to a real PicoBlaze)? Do you think he should have chosen some other student for that?

My thought is that he felt you needed a challenge, and not because you were his most competent  student.

Clearly, it was a challenge for you, given the problems with it you’ve told us about.

Boru

I am quite sure most 3rd-year computer engineering students wouldn't even know how to begin making an assembler runnable in a browser, for the simple reason that they don't know anything about compiler theory. They don't know what "tokenizer" or "parser" even are, much less how to make one. Not to mention they have zero experience with JavaScript.

[arewethereyet]

My thought is that he felt you needed a challenge, and not because you were his most competent  student.

Clearly, it was a challenge for you, given the problems with it you’ve told us about.

Boru

I am quite sure most 3rd-year computer engineering students wouldn't even know how to begin making an assembler runnable in a browser, for the simple reason that they don't know anything about compiler theory. They don't know what "tokenizer" or "parser" even are, much less how to make one. Not to mention they have zero experience with JavaScript.

But can they Google?

[LinuxGal]

My thought is that he felt you needed a challenge, and not because you were his most competent  student.

Clearly, it was a challenge for you, given the problems with it you’ve told us about.

Boru

I am quite sure most 3rd-year computer engineering students wouldn't even know how to begin making an assembler runnable in a browser, for the simple reason that they don't know anything about compiler theory. They don't know what "tokenizer" or "parser" even are, much less how to make one. Not to mention they have zero experience with JavaScript.

There's these things called servers. A browser is a client.  No engineer has made an assembler run "in a browser" precisely because they're engineers. If someone told you to do it, it would be along the lines of telling a Navy boot fresh on the boat to go fetch sound powered phone batteries.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I am quite sure most 3rd-year computer engineering students wouldn't even know how to begin making an assembler runnable in a browser, for the simple reason that they don't know anything about compiler theory. They don't know what "tokenizer" or "parser" even are, much less how to make one. Not to mention they have zero experience with JavaScript.

There's these things called servers. A browser is a client.  No engineer has made an assembler run "in a browser" precisely because they're engineers. If someone told you to do it, it would be along the lines of telling a Navy boot fresh on the boat to go fetch sound powered phone batteries.

Or fifty yards of shore line.

[Anomalocaris]

I thought sound powered phone batteries were the ones fetching the batteries.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I thought sound powered phone batteries were the ones fetching the batteries.

How would that work?

[Anomalocaris]

the human is the battery powering the vocal cord that powers the sound powered telephone.