Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Yesterday my co-teacher and former student who is handling the Advanced Computing class (actually fundamentals of computer graphics for engineering majors who have taken up manual and computer aided drawing, using basic graphics commands in a high level language and with lots of mathematics involved) asked for my help with her class, who, as I have mentioned, I handled last term in Graphics Two.

I had offered to help her with the topics because I had taught that before in another space and time, and in a similar programming language (this is the only class of mine for which, out of "enthusiasm", we had an overnight in school and I lectured for the only time in my life at 11 in the evening).

But yesterday was particularly needful for her, because the day before that, her remote access to her computer had been activated by someone on the outside, making her lose all the files she was working on at the moment on her terminal - not remotely.

She doesn't know if is an inside job or an outside hacker, or if it is a student, which is why I'm posting about it here.

She said that when she checked at the time, only one other person in her office was affected. It doesn't narrow down her list of suspects though.

That is, after all, part of the risk one takes in allowing for external manipulation of one's save space, although at other times, it must be convenient. Then again, that's what flash drives are now for.

And she also still has a lot to learn about the depth and pace she has to go through in teaching concepts to students. When she was one probably she thought the volume and rate of information she was receiving from her teachers was slack, but she has to learn to accept that there are students out there with a different level of comprehension, and she has to adjust her teaching style accordingly so that they don't get left too far behind, and that the "quick-to-pick-up" students don't get too bored or too many early dismissals in handling material designed for those below them.

I was glad to help. So what's getting one more day behind in my own tasks?

Session 2003 has to assess the priority of this new "threat" with respect to her current workload. Class dismissed.