Class Assignments

Over the last few weeks, I've had some pretty cool assignments in my classes, and I wanted to share a few links with you.

This is a website I wrote for my IT class from scratch:

www.et.byu.edu/~slaughta

This is a website for my Computer Science 100 class, where we put links to our assignments. 

students.cs.byu.edu/~slaughta

For my IT class we do a lot of labs building cool things.

Like, a ethernet cable, for instance:

I made that.  Neat, huh?  (Actually, it's not as difficult as it may look.)

Also, we did circuit boards.  We had to solder all the little bits onto the board.

It plays 4 different songs and the little LED light blinks.  Check out the vid!

(Songs are the BYU Fight Song, Happy Birthday, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Come, Come Ye Saints.)

Sorry for the bad quality.  My camera refused to focus, darn it all!

Also, I've been writing a lot of programs, at least one every week.  They're tiny little things really, but they take me usually 10 hours or more.  

Like, I had to write programs to do these things:

- Convert decimal numbers to Roman Numerals

- Translate sentences into Pig Latin

- Read in strings of DNA and determine if they might be a gene

- Read in a file with banking information and calculate the total value of the portfolio (including compounding interest on bonds and looking up stock values from a website)

- Sort a list of names alphabetically (and write the results out to a new file)

- Compute the steady state temperature distribution over a piece of metal (what the heck??), then export the results to Excel and create a graph from the data.

Pretty crazy stuff, eh?  Haha, turns out that most of those are a lot easier than they sound, too.  Well, at least once I know what I'm doing.  :)

Let's hope I can keep up the rest of the semester!