Laurabelle's Blog

Spring quarter started on Monday, and I attended two new classes. LIS521 (Principles of Information Services) looks really fun, which I had expected since it was the class that filled up the fastest at entry-code time. I also had LIS545 (Programming for Information Systems) that evening, and unfortunately it was less impressive. I hadn't realized how much programming for non-programmers it was going to be, and how much of the course material was going to be duplicated by LIS549 (XML by Bob Boiko). The emphasis on Microsoft-owned languages and programs, coupled with non-explanations of namespaces, classes, functions, and even arrays, gave me a definite feeling that I really didn't want to be in that class. So I dropped it and am now signed up for LIS550 (Information in Social Context).

I'm also planning to take a computer science course over the summer, even though I won't get LIS credit for it. It's stupid, because any real comp sci course would be much harder than 545, which I would get credit for. Ahhh, the absurdities of the academic universe.