Anything Interesting?

Tyler said:

I think your way too smart for us lol.

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Deathcrow said:

Any of you guys taking an interesting class or a class that is actually teaching you something sort of cool or something that you like and want to learn?

So far my engineering classes have been pretty cool. The main ones I am liking so far are Fundamental Circuits Lab and Fundamentals of Computer Engineering. I am also taking a class called Engineering Analysis, it might become more interesting soon since we will be using a program called MATLAB a lot.

Today in my Computer Engineering class I learned how error detection and correction codes work. Extra bits are often added to codewords (using sometimes complex schemes) so that when the word is transmitted, the received can detect if errors occurred in the transmission and possibly correct some of the errors. Some of the simplest error detection code involves the addition of a parity bit.

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Example of a 2-bit code with extra bits added for error correction:

Data | Code
--00--| 000000
--01--| 000111
--10--| 111000
--11--| 111111

So if it receives 111010 then it assumes 111000. Therefore fixing the data and making it perfect once again.

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Captain Falcon said:

Deathcrow said:

Any of you guys taking an interesting class or a class that is actually teaching you something sort of cool or something that you like and want to learn?

So far my engineering classes have been pretty cool. The main ones I am liking so far are Fundamental Circuits Lab and Fundamentals of Computer Engineering. I am also taking a class called Engineering Analysis, it might become more interesting soon since we will be using a program called MATLAB a lot.

Today in my Computer Engineering class I learned how error detection and correction codes work. Extra bits are often added to codewords (using sometimes complex schemes) so that when the word is transmitted, the received can detect if errors occurred in the transmission and possibly correct some of the errors. Some of the simplest error detection code involves the addition of a parity bit.

Spoiler

Example of a 2-bit code with extra bits added for error correction:

Data | Code
--00--| 000000
--01--| 000111
--10--| 111000
--11--| 111111

So if it receives 111010 then it assumes 111000. Therefore fixing the data and making it perfect once again.

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seems honestly a lot similar to binary code, with some differences and rules etc. I learned a little bit about binary in my entry to computer programming class with Visual Basic. About what each 0 and 1 means, math equations and how to convert them to other numbers/letters and etc (something like that haha)

Last semester (this is my first year of college) I took math, english, informatics (introduction to computer programming as I said) and U100 (a required college class)

This semester i'm taking only 2 classes. A 2D art drawing class becuase it is required to get into some parts of the new media area that I want to get into. (specifically computer graphics design, stuff like video game design, modeling and animations) And i'm re-taking math, because I didn't pass it the first semester. Ended up goofing off too much and failed. Should be simple to pass it now since i'm only part-time this semester.

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Deathcrow said:

Captain Falcon said:

Deathcrow said:

Any of you guys taking an interesting class or a class that is actually teaching you something sort of cool or something that you like and want to learn?

So far my engineering classes have been pretty cool. The main ones I am liking so far are Fundamental Circuits Lab and Fundamentals of Computer Engineering. I am also taking a class called Engineering Analysis, it might become more interesting soon since we will be using a program called MATLAB a lot.

Today in my Computer Engineering class I learned how error detection and correction codes work. Extra bits are often added to codewords (using sometimes complex schemes) so that when the word is transmitted, the received can detect if errors occurred in the transmission and possibly correct some of the errors. Some of the simplest error detection code involves the addition of a parity bit.

Spoiler

Example of a 2-bit code with extra bits added for error correction:

Data | Code
--00--| 000000
--01--| 000111
--10--| 111000
--11--| 111111

So if it receives 111010 then it assumes 111000. Therefore fixing the data and making it perfect once again.

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seems honestly a lot similar to binary code, with some differences and rules etc. I learned a little bit about binary in my entry to computer programming class with Visual Basic. About what each 0 and 1 means, math equations and how to convert them to other numbers/letters and etc (something like that haha)

Last semester (this is my first year of college) I took math, english, informatics (introduction to computer programming as I said) and U100 (a required college class)

This semester i'm taking only 2 classes. A 2D art drawing class becuase it is required to get into some parts of the new media area that I want to get into. (specifically computer graphics design, stuff like video game design, modeling and animations) And i'm re-taking math, because I didn't pass it the first semester. Ended up goofing off too much and failed. Should be simple to pass it now since i'm only part-time this semester.

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Well it is binary code. lol. We also learned how to do math with them and convert them and such on the first day of class. Along with hexadecimal and octal numbers.

Anyway, it is cool that you are getting into computer graphics design. I think that would be pretty fun.

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Captain Falcon said:

Deathcrow said:

Captain Falcon said:

seems honestly a lot similar to binary code, with some differences and rules etc. I learned a little bit about binary in my entry to computer programming class with Visual Basic. About what each 0 and 1 means, math equations and how to convert them to other numbers/letters and etc (something like that haha)

Last semester (this is my first year of college) I took math, english, informatics (introduction to computer programming as I said) and U100 (a required college class)

This semester i'm taking only 2 classes. A 2D art drawing class becuase it is required to get into some parts of the new media area that I want to get into. (specifically computer graphics design, stuff like video game design, modeling and animations) And i'm re-taking math, because I didn't pass it the first semester. Ended up goofing off too much and failed. Should be simple to pass it now since i'm only part-time this semester.

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Well it is binary code. lol. We also learned how to do math with them and convert them and such on the first day of class. Along with hexadecimal and octal numbers.

Anyway, it is cool that you are getting into computer graphics design. I think that would be pretty fun.

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Yeah I figured as much XD kind of obvious...

But I took the informatics class for me to kind of test the waters for programming. I wanted to learn some sort of programming as a secondary to be more efficient in the video game design industry, so i'm more usefull you know? But honestly it put me to sleep. Lol. I passed the class, yeah, but I don't like it very much. *shrug* I'll probably just focus on graphics design I took a few classes with graphics design in high school and I loved it. So I know generally what I'm getting into.

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