english exam

great just great.

topic: c# and java compared

yesterday instead of reading the report (or whatever) i was making the poster, as they weren't going to let us use the projectors for uncanny reasons. it would be ok if i at least knew the contents of the report. it consists of 12 pages. guess how much i have written on my own? 3-4 sentences in the conclusion. the rest was copied out from various sources, even the introduction. the topic was interesting to me but of course professors from the english chair would understand absolutely nothing. So i knew - whatever i'd have in those pages, they'd still listen, nod whikle i'd be speaking and look in a concentrated way at charts. i could say "java and c# are functional languages used for programming flash" or "java was created by microsoft after c# virtual machine could not satisfy the needs of the consumers". so i couldn't feel enthusiastic about the whole thing. Another reason for it was this poster thing. just a waste of time.

so today i read the introduction and the first part of the report in the taxi. then i arrived at the cafeteria, met Anya and we started making her poster. in between i read some things from here and there on language specification. then i reread these parts already during the exam while others were presenting their projects. when it was my turn, i just started talking about programming, these 2 languages in particular, about things which weren't in the project at all like history of these languages. Also, before going to uni, i was talking to Michael, and he was explaining some things on javadoc, spec language, etc. I used it all :D.

then i decided to speak about delegates. i looked at my professor and said "delegates can be regarded as function pointers *looking into her eyes, kind of nodding*" she nodded and kind of smiled as if it was familiar to her.

same things were happening with Anya and Alex. Anya was speaking about "creating web pages" and she had only finished with the introduction, when they stopped her and asked to go to the conclusion part. Alex had "file system". in the end the professor asked "what is the advantage of linux?" we all kind of imagined what would happen if Alex gave a full answer :D

good point: we had much fun :D