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Monday, February 20, 2006

I just found out that the flash drive I bought less than 2 weeks ago is now $20 cheaper. If I had only waited 2 weeks. :( I have to mail the rebate form in tomorrow. It says that I have to be 18 to be eligible for the rebate, but I won't tell them that I am not.

In programming class, I really wish I had a knowledgeable teacher. This stuff is very difficult to try to understand without being able to ask questions and have it explained by a person. I am about to start chapter 5 in the book, though I haven't told my teacher. The person who sits next to me and I have decided that we will go ahead in the book without informing our teacher, and doing the exercises when the rest of the class does so. We don't know which ones she will assign, and we certainly won't do all 20 that are in the book. She usually assigns somewhere between 4 and 5 exercises

I have been, in my own time, trying to learn assembly language -- the closest language to using straight 0's and 1's. It is slightly difficult to understand. The processor does simple tasks such as adding, multiplying, moving values around, and doing stuff such as ANDing, ORing, and XORing. It also does some parallel processing. For example, when an instruction is executed, the a value is automatically incremented.

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