Kermit@CS

In between studying for IMPR and DB, I’ve snuck in a little time to take a peak at some interesting technologies I’ve been dying to try for a while.

The first is Ruby On Rails - it’s enough to just see the screencast (and try not to laugh at the neat European accent) to understand what this can do [and is doing] to web development.

The Second is XCode - Apple’s development environment, which frankly just blew me away.

After building a functional webbrowser in 5 minutes, and seeing how easilly live comunication between objects is, just makes my head swim…

Sure you can do some of the same things trivially in VB and the like - but this is a full blown C/C++/Objective C environment - you can write real, fast production code with this.

Sheesh, maybe I’ll get some more time to play over the weekend

Only 2 more exams to go!! (and still no grades from the 3 I’ve taken so far).

Graphics was really fun to study for - I highly recommend the course, I think I’m going to try to do the advanced course next semester (I hope I have enough time).

This year’s Algo exam was probably the easiest one in known memory; though having only 3 days to study for it after graphics wasn’t really enough…

Had a review lesson for DB today - usually these are a waste of time, but Gidi and Aron (the TAs) did an admirable job of preparing themselves beforehand and actually went over allot of relevant material and tried to explain how we should answer questions on the exam.

In other news, I just took another look at MIT’s OpenCourseWare site and they have some more lectures by Walter Lewin - cool! Even if you’re not into Physics, this is definitely worth a peak - this guy shows how university classes should be taught…

I wonder if HUJI will ever have its own open courseware program…

Good luck to all!

I don’t know what happened this year, but there are some really good notes available for most of the courses I’m taking.

Dina’s Notes Heaven site is amazing, she’s really smart and has unbelievable attention to detail, go Dina! Her notes in logic are very clear, ands she even prepared a really good summary of all the material in good time for the exam tomorrow.

Tali’s notes in Algorithms this year are also super (available on the course web page).

I only hope that next semester there’ll be such good material to study from…

Hujistud is also worth a peek btw. The raytraced images he created in the graphics course are simply amazing.

Good luck to everyone taking logic tomorrow!!!