In addition to this, I must now apparently embed it, as it will follow immediately after this sentence, which I will be ending as of right now.
Finally, though this may strike you as slightly nonsequitur, I have finally been told to link to my favorite professional Internet site. As this would be "not-safe-for-work" by most people's prudish standards, I will instead link to GamaSutra, a web site that promotes videogame news and analysis in a smart and sensible fashion.
To anyone reading this post, I appreciate you keeping up with this blog; by no means will this be the final post appearing on MTA -- I've put far too much effort into the supplementary graphics to have it just be for a single semester's class! Stay tuned, everyone; there's bound to be an update here sooner or later. :3
As the semester draws quickly to a much-deserved close, the students of this course have been compelled to compile various trinkets into workable presentations, and embed them here alongside a lovely paragraph of our impressions of the class.
To be frank, since I put myself into the class at the very last minute for the sole purpose of rounding out my earned credits to a not-so-even 16 for this semester, I didn't really put a lot of thought into my choice -- so it came as a sudden surprise that I'd signed up not for "Intro to Computers [in a scientific setting]", but "Intro to Computers [in general, for people who haven't consistently worked with one since they were six years old]". Even so, I learned a few things -- especially toward the back half of the semester, during which I finally learned a few marvelous tidbits (such as what the term BIOS stands for). It also helped prepare me for the base-2 notation assignments I would later face in CS 1309 - Problem Solving and Computer Science, giving me yet another opportunity to hold myself above everyone else for being slightly more simple-minded than I am.
Given the purpose of this course, I have no complaints about how it was laid out. It gave me an excuse to work in a light programming environment and focus a fair amount on game design; I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to someone as experienced with computers as myself, unless they (like me) had problems accommodating student loan requirements due to missteps made in a prototypical college career more than five years ago. I'd like to thank my professor (Christine Bakke) for putting up with my horrible lateness and crazy excuses; she's a very talented professor, even if she did refer to me with the incorrect pronouns a few times. :3
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Finally, a bonus video of a bunch of awesome nerds messing around with emulators:
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