[ILUG] where are the Irish "Summer of Code" entrants?

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave O' Connor wrote:

> One module in 2nd year contained a section on optimising the
> efficiency of moving something from one place to another.
>
> A lab was spent timing the efficiency of the paths which different
> movements of the hand would take.
>
> That's fine if I was studying manufacturing or something but why this is
> relevant in a IT based degree, I have no idea.

This is just a /guess/ now, but I wonder if the idea was to:

- develop various algorithms for the above
- predict their suitability using a computer
- provide some kind of formal analysis of the better algorithms
   (or all of them, if you only developed a few)

wild guess..

> This may not seem all that bad but unless you studied the module 
> it's actually impossible to realise just how pointless that module 
> was.

Well, even if my wild guess was wrong - you could have turned it into 
a useful computer problem. What were you expecting from the course?

> Dave

regards,
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