Compter course benefits
Jan. 11th, 2008 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jagashMy first week of courses went fairly well. Good professors, relatively small classes (7 people and 12 people respectively) and useful subject matter. Programming in Visual Basic for ecological purposes seems handy and simple enough for basic applications. Ain't touching it for complex apps, but for basic data-handling + GUI it is fine. Python by contrast seems far more rich a language and useful in other venues, but will be harder to learn. *shrug* Still, "Import antigravity" is damn cool. :)
Now my only problem is probably one commonly felt by compsci students past and present. How does one successfully learn two different languages simultaneously without them getting mixed up? I don't want to import modules in VB nor comment with an apostrophe in Python. Should be interesting atleast.
Oh, it turns out that the biology computer lab has new computers for the first time in 27 years. Very shiny. Large LCD screens, snappy processing, great internet connection and the whole jazz. If only I could enter the lab freely.
Now my only problem is probably one commonly felt by compsci students past and present. How does one successfully learn two different languages simultaneously without them getting mixed up? I don't want to import modules in VB nor comment with an apostrophe in Python. Should be interesting atleast.
Oh, it turns out that the biology computer lab has new computers for the first time in 27 years. Very shiny. Large LCD screens, snappy processing, great internet connection and the whole jazz. If only I could enter the lab freely.
