Welcome#
Good day all!
I’m Jonathan Schrader and this is Computer Science at The University of Rhode Island. The site before you is a catalyst to the subject matter endorsed for courses I teach as well as those which come prior and or after. The premise is to provide insights into the given topics selected and to lead you toward the opening stages of researching and resourcing your own information.
For the first day of lecture / lab:
Please review the schedule, syllabus, and first weeks’ lectures / lab for your course / term.
Be prepared with questions to help set appropriate expectations for the course
~ j
“If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
“C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.”
“Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it.”
“Choosing the right precision for a problem where the choice matters requires significant understanding of floating-point computation. If you don’t have that understanding, get advice, take the time to learn, or use double and hope for the best.”