Hi how are you?
Hello! Haha, a real person! Nice to meet you.
hahahaha lol
Do you have trouble with that, too? Or is it just me?
do you get a lot of fake people?
I swear, half the time it's empty, yeah. Just blanks screens. Talking to an empty room. Alone . . . . . . ack hem. But anway. *anyway Nice to meet you, Adam! You surviving finals all right?
Yeah how about you?
One left. Hopefully it goes well. My last final . . . Not so good. 75%, whoops. And it was STILL higher than average! You're not taking crazy classes, are you?
Wait you got a 75% on your final?
Yup.
I am taking a couple
Nothing . . . too crazy?
Well I took my computer science test today and got an 80
Oh, hey! Which class. ?
Cs 142?
Fuuuun! I miss that. I took it last semester. You're still using zyBooks, right?
yeah
When I took my final few months ago, the internet went out. owo
I think I will have an A overall so I am happy
Nice! I hear a lot of people aren't happy with how hard it is . . .
Yeah the final was killer.
Yeesh. Work out the bugs? I missed 5 points on my final.
I didn't miss any points on the parts I finished. It was just way to long.
Oh, it was one of THOSE ones. I'm curious. What were you asked to do?
I can't say or can I wait I think the final might be over
Oh, right, haha, finals stuff.
let me check
I shall be here.
Yeah the exam is over today was the last day
Sweet. What were you tested on, then?
They asked us to make tons of modifications to our playlist lab I swear it was like writing a whole lab in 3 hours
Wait, really?
In addition to that we also had to write a program that used inheritance With one base class and two derived
Wait, whaaaat? In three hours? They expected you to finish that?
I know right? I heard that the exam scores are REALLY low and they may add a curve. I had over 100% in the class and I still struggled
That's insane. I find it hard to believe they expect so much out of you. Well, I guess not hard to believe. It IS computer science. But . . . I remember my final had to do something with playlist, but I don't think we had to inherit anything.
Yeah it was rough
Ours was adding implementation for song artists. And, seriously, just three hours?
Yeah they confine all tests to 3 hours
I remember that, but . . . I just finished 235 and 224, and the typical labs take anywhere between 5 hours and 20 hours. AND. My 224 final was open textbook. And we were allowed a page of notes. And it was untimed. No programming, but . . . wow.
Wow that is way better than CS
It's actually CS 224, haha. You'll be taking it next if you're in the major.
I am actually in the acme major
Ohhh! That's so fun! In which case, don't take 224. It's, um, kinda crazy hard. Literally everyone I've talked to said it's one of the hardest in the major--if not THE hardest.
Yeah I heard from my teacher that it is better to take 235 first anyway
Amen. I, um, wasn't super pleased with my 235 course, but don't let that discourage you. We were sorta forced to self-teach ourselves everthing. *everything. Super fun, super education, but not what I was expecting. *educational
Yeah that is just kind of how CS goes. They aren't really good teachers, but to be fair computer science is difficult to teach I mean how do you teach a class of 100 students how to write programs at the exact same time?
I guess you're right. But imagine trying to pass 142 without zyBooks. Now, add that to a curriculum that tests entirely different concepts than the homework. Mixed in with an over-worked professor who had to put together a curriculum last-minute for the year. A professor, I might add, who had never taught this class. He tried his best as we tried our best. But, hehehe, it was an experience.
Which teacher is this?
Ever hear of Prof. Roper? If you're signed up for 235 for Fall, PLEASE check if it's him. Because, bless his soul, he's a kind man, but Clements will . . . teach you 235. Actually teach. Oh, gosh, I wish I could send you a picture of our study guide. It made me laugh so hard. It was this list of questions, see. He said the final would be a subset of these questions. Or, in other words, everything on the final would come straight from the study guide, but not everything from the study guide would be used. Pretty neat, right? He printed the questions without the answers. Makes sense. But, heh, some questions without answers don't make sense. Like this one:  "Pick the best statement." Or this one: "Analyze the code snippet to your right and determine its output." Or this one: "Which of the following is true about C++ classes?"
hmmm
Definitely legitimate questions, but, heh, didn't make the best for studying.
holy cow I got distracted
XD
let me read your messages lol
Go for it.
Ok i got caught up
Sweet.
Wow that is weird
It was kinda rushed . . . The poor man has been working 80-hour weeks. The TA's are overworked.
Lol
You wanna hear something else?
I find it funny that he just deleted the answers and gave you the half-sensical questions sure what?
I know! XD Because of how rushed everything was, our labs weren't updated until the due date. Imagine having to do Bread and Cakes in one day. Or Playlist in a day. Granted, half of us don't start until day of . . .
hahaha I did most of my labs in one day so true
And, hey, you survived, right? :)
yeah I ded did I didn't know it was supposed to be that hard
CS in general?
to be honest I did really simple programming in elementary school so  Ihad a bit of an advantage
Ah. See, now THAT helps. And I have to ask. Why ACME? Isn't that, like, the hardest major here at BYU aside from some branch of organic chemistry?
Uhhhh I didn't know it was hard Is it hard? shoot .... hold on for a sec
Sure thing. (FYI, copy and paste doesn't work here.) (Me realizing I talk a lot to myself.) (Hoping it's not awkward for other people.) (And making the second realization that this is probably why I'm second in the leader board. So much idle talking . . .)
hahahaha i am back
Oh, hello!
Yeah I figured that out today when I tried to show someone a website oh so you are second lol?
Second? Oh, heavens no. I don't talk THAT much.
hahahahaha wait then why did you say that
I'm fifth. Oh! Sorry, sorry, sorry. I typed second. I meant 5th. I honestly have no idea why "second" came out.
ohhhhhhh
My bad.
lol hahaha that is hilarious
But it happens at random intervals . . . So many typos . . .
I make a bunch of typos and I feel bad. I am trying to be as good of a typer as I can be for the people who are running this
That's how I feel. I don't want to accidentally ruin their system. So I really DO try not to misspell. But my harder typos are the ones where I completely swap a word for a different one for no logical reason.
yeah. I get the feeling that their system is a good one considering they already won 250000
Oh! Haha, you're right. You don't win a quarter of a million with shoddy programming. I, um, maybe have been the reason "paste" was removed . . .
hahahaha Was it removed or was it already gone?
It was removed right after. So, me and someone else were chatting here. Just idling. Shooting the breeze. And we said, "Hey! I wonder if their systems can detect fake words."
fake words? lol
So we may have copied gigantic text chunks from the internet? You know, fake conversations. Randomly generated. But . . . Within a minute, I got an email. A very personal email. "Quit it."
with in just a minute? that is really fast!
Might have been two.
I have yet to get an email that makes me feel good. I must being doing things right!
Yeah. :) You've certainly made some good conversation with me. I've enjoyed it.
I enjoy talking on this website
It's kinda fun, isn't it? You know you'll never see these people again.
Honestly I would be thrilled if they had contests like this all the time. I think they need  more types of prizes though there is too much of a jump between a headset and some truffles lol
Hey, yeah! That'd be so fun! I'm hoping for the headphones. REALLY want the headphones. But I also like furthering their--oh, my gosh, is that the time? Ahhhhh. Okay, heh, I have to go. I had no idea it was so late. Guess time flies when you're having fun.
yeah Holy cow
Thanks again, Adam! Seriously, this was really fun.
It has been a long time since I started talking
Right? Something like . . . thirty minutes?
Alright have a good day ... err i mean night!
Forty-five.
Well I started at 9 lol
Hahaha, I loved that. Oh, wow. And here I was thinking it would be a quick chat before bed . . . Anyway, see you around. Er . . . probably not. But still. Sentiment stands.
see you around it was fun talking!!! lol you are crazy
Haha, thanks. ;) Kk, see you!