Circuit Design

This circuit design lab is so freakin awesome. Playing around with all the gates and MUXes and splitters.  I'm making an ALU that supports, add/sub and comparisons. Between dealing with the overflow and dealing with negative comparisons I am definitely earning my grade on this one.

The Stack Pointer From Hell

After two hours of trying to debug MIPS assembly code I finally found out how to push the return address into the stack before over writing it so that I could jump to another function.. ahhh....

It's awesome learning computer architecture, but programming in assembly is like trying to chop down a tree with a pocket knife >:{

Memory Training

Absolutely awesome TED talk on memory. Take away: We remember when we pay attention.

http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html

Classes Starting

So my first week of classes went really well. Data base, HCI and I'm really looking forward to Comp Arch. The lectures are all online videos and all the classes are problem solving sessions. I think it's gonna be a really good way to take the course.