3rd Day at COSMOS...

I've been at UCSD taking a summer program called cosmos for 3 days now. Taking a cluster (who came up with that term?) called The Science of Computing. We're supposed to be bloggin'... I'm not sure how that relates to the topic, but that's fine with me. The course has been moving pretty quickly. I guess that they expect a lot from us... for you people who took ComSci, one of the prof's showed us 9 html documents using javascript (pretty much the same as java) which basically covered the entire first semester of AP ComSci in one hour! And they actually expect us to be able to program!!! Wow... And they expect us to be able to use so many different types... not just prog. languages, but also to learn to use Unix. I'm so rusty with C++... I think i got the code for Hello World right, but... it's not executing properly, can't find some file. Oh well... If I have a choice, I'll be using java... which should be fine, since all the examples were in javascript... Kinda disorganized right now, being the first week of the first year. Our cluster's lost 2 people already, has not yet arrived on time for something, and we're a partially - installed building. The chairs still have moving labels on them, boxes all over the place, padding still in the elevators, some rooms are still empty, computer lab barely works... but it's all right. I think things will be better next week... The days seem very long actually. I feel like I've been here a long time... , but it's not even 72 hours yet. And there's so much walking! We're living in the Elenor Roosevelt college, on the west side, and we're mostly working in the Jacobs Engineering/Warren College/some kinda science building... so... Walk halfway across the school, walk back, walk there again, walk back, etc..... my legs are so tired, and I thought I could walk pretty well! Ok, have fun... should be able to get into more detail tomorrow, maybe later today.... but I gotta go refresh my memory of programming.