Digital Logic - Tally ho!
Digital Logic is a terrible course. It is so unorganized, that it would give my room a run for its money. Assuming my room had just been run over by a herd of stampeding elephants and had an air cruiser crash into it, of course. It's so unorganized, it has negative organization. One of my friends was convinced it was run by monkeys.
One of the teachers has a language disability. Now I wouldn't normally make fun of people with languange disabilities, but it was at the point where I couldn't understand a thing the man said, never mind learn anything. The only thing I was doing was nodding off.
One day, I decided to concentrate really hard. I was going to learn something that class, even if it cost me my arm or my leg! Lo and behold, I understood something he said! Alas and alack, it was only the last couple words of each sentence. The last couple words of every sentence usually consisted of a question of sorts.
- ...right?
- ...okay?
- ...you know?
- ...you see?
- ...got the point?
- ...you know then?
- ...you see here?
- ...is okay?
- ...is it clear folks?
- ...you see the point here?
- ...you know...what I mean?
- ...right? I mean, you know?
I decided that this guy would definitely need to go in my "quotes" page on my site. But what was I to do with someone who only ever says the same thing over and over again? I decided to keep a tally of how many times he said each thing.
Every time it was his week to teach, I would diligently pull out a piece of looseleaf, and make a chart. I had to concentrate hard, but at least I stayed awake. To my surprise, almost every day he broke a record. He was saying these things more and more often!
After a few days, I noticed I could understand the occasional sentence!
- So this one's inverted, right? Inverted, right? Right?
- There would be a different number of, you know? Gates. Okay?
- ...and you can converge them together, okay? Okay? Remember?
- This part is easy to understand, right? How to build an FSM from an FSM?
- But "B" and "D" are not never, right?
- Here you have the capacitance, okay? Here you have the capacitance, okay? Here you have the capacitance, okay?
All in all, I didn't learn very much from the teachers in Digital Logic, especially this guy. But it did provide me with another page for my website (including pie graphs!)
