Midterm Exams Completed

I got through all five of my midterm exams without too much difficulty. None of them hit me with anything out of the blue, and I'm pretty confident that I did well on all of them.

Unfortunately, at 9pm on the first day of spring break, I got an email from my AI professor assigning a project to write an Othello playing program, and announcing that the project would be due on a date approximately three weeks after we get back from spring break. That means that I'll have about as much time to work on the Othello program as I had to work on a much simpler Mastermind playing program that was due last week. Also, we haven't even talked about adversarial search, alpha-beta pruning, and related topics in class yet. And to top it of, I forget to pick up a copy of Paradigms of AI Programming from the library before driving home for break. Grrr.

Now I've got one more item on my list of things to do over break:

• Do taxes
• Work on Cocoa Programming Competition app
• Work on Aspect-Oriented Programming project for OO Software course
• Read up on Trusted Computing for Computer Security project
• Read up on Othello for AI project