Nicky and I went to Waffle House for breakfast. I completed my required community service at the Hands on Atlanta office, though I’ll still be working with them regularly. After work, David and I studied at his apartment for Circuit Analysis. During evening lab hours, I graded tests for CS1322.

Had a test in Embedded Microcontrollers. Josh and I worked on Project 7 for Embedded Microcontroller Lab, where we interfaced a remote control with the infrared sensor on the PIC board. We worked closed to seven hours on it, but didn’t finished due to some bugs in the program.

The usual TA meeting at eleven. I finished my biology lab report in between classes. In biology lab, we performed experiments demonstrating osmosis and diffusion. Recitation followed immediately after; there, the students had a test. After classes, the TAs and I had dinner at Willy’s Mexicana Grill, before calling it and night and passing out on my comfortable futon.

I got a haircut at the Student Center, and graded P1 assignments for CS1322. Returned to the apartment for a few hours to have lunch and complete another online biology quiz. In the evening, attended a ProgDev meeting where we discussed P3. Promptly after, left for an Embedded Microcontroller review session in the Van Leer auditorium. I have an Embedded Microcontroller exam on Wednesday.

Nicky and I went shopping at Publix in the morning. In an effort to be productive, I went to Radio Shack and purchased several inexpensive components to work on my soldering technique. With enough practice, I should eventually be able to build a QuikFlash board, which we use exclusively in Embedded Microcontroller Lab.

Adam and I went to Ruby Tuesday for lunch. I fiddled around with gpsim a little more, and was able to get some basic PIC example assembly programs to simulate correctly. In the evening, Adam and I went to the Georgia Tech student center to play Dance Dance Revolution, where we practiced Doubles (a special mode where one person plays using two pads).

I spent the day watching entirely too much television.

After classes, I stopped by the Hands on Atlanta office to work on a network installation of Microsoft Office 2000 using the Office Resource Kit, a set of tools that allow you to generate custom Microsoft Installer package (MSI) files. I also setup the framework for a slipstream version of Windows 2000 SP3. I’ll finish it up next week. Microsoft actually has some pretty cool development tools; they are just really good at hiding them from IT professionals due to lack of documentation.

It’s my day off. I ate lunch with Nicky at the chinese buffet. Wrote several autograder tests for CS1322, using my utilities from this past week. In the evening, I drove to Georgia Tech for lab hours. Predictably, no students appeared, and I instead completed my biology quiz with the help of Mitch. After lab, I left with the TAs for dinner at La Fonda. Definitely not as exciting as the Tuesday night dinners, but enjoyable regardless.

After dinner, I worked on Circuit Analysis homework with David at his apartment in Centennial Place. It’s right in the neighborhood where I park my car on school days. We worked until well after midnight.

I turned in my time sheet, billing 24 hours for this week. Josh and I got checked off on Project 6 in Embedded Microcontroller Lab, where we interfaced a rotary pulse generator (RPG) with a stepper motor. Integrated ClassFactory with the autograding software, and learned about Java ClassLoaders and class linkages in the process. After much work, I was finally able to invoke constructors for abstract classes in different directories.

It was quite possibly the longest CS1322 recitation ever, clocked at nearly two hours and twenty minutes. We had to cover what felt like a textbook worth of topics in one class, among them: polymorphism, inheritance, dynamic binding, abstract classes and interfaces, constructor chaining, and method overloading. The students also have a test next week.