Loop upon loop

After spending a hectic week learning about loops, I surprisingly feel confident with them. Of course, I'm not at a fluent level or anything, but to me loops just make a lot of sense. Now, the one thing that does confuse me however are the different types of loops such as while, do while, for, etc. (I don't know if there are any more than that. I would guess so.) Whenever I am confronted with a challenge, I automatically revert to a regular while loop. I've never had to use any of the other kinds, although doing so might have been easier in some situations. At this point, the while loop looks like the jack-of-all-trades, while the for loop is just an easy shortcut to execute a sequence. I'm still working on the for loop lab, so perhaps this will help me understand once I finish.

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CS jokes are great

You know you go to LASA when computer science jokes are posted on your Facebook wall. The conversation escalated very quickly, with each putdown more belittling than the last. One great one was, "Your mom is so fat, the recursive formula calculating her mass caused a stack overflow." There were others, but they definitely aren't appropriate for me to post here in this blog. Hopefully as the year progresses and I learn more about CS, I can start making even better jokes (cause, you know, that's what the cool kids are doing nowadays). At least trying to make these jokes will keep me from the guilty pleasure of using Pokemon fusion in class.

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I Won?

So last week I signed up for IBM's Master the Mainframe contest just as something fun on the side of the stressful mound of college work that I have right now. After creating an account, I downloaded the Mainframe emulator required to compete, and I at least started part I. Of course, more demanding obligations didn't let me finish just yet. Strangely enough, a few days ago I got an email from IBM stating that "I won" a t-shirt for completing part 1. I don't understand. I'll take the t-shirt I guess, but I'll still try to finish to the best of my abilities.

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iPhones. iPhones Everywhere.

What was that? Apple has already released another iPhone in less than a year? Wow. I knew they were in a hurry but I didn't think it would come this quickly. I thought the iPhone 4s was cool, but apparently it wasn't cool enough for Apple. For me at least, Siri was a massive augmentation to the older iPhone and deserves to give everyone a satisfactory break. But no, Apple, you've pushed way to far this time. Sure, the shiny hardware is a little bit lighter this time around, but does that counteract the completely screwed-up maps system (at least I heard it was screwed-up)? I am actually an owner of an iPhone, and at this point, I am glad. In the future I don't want to put up with the growing control freak that is Apple. Hopefully, I'll get an Android phone, because they offer a comparable amount of efficacy in a smartphone.

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