FEUP Maximizing Student Grades For A Change

Or not. Someone got min() and max() confused:

Nota Final = max(Nota do exame final+Nota do trabalho, 18)

translation: Final Grade = max(Exam Grade + Assignment Grade, 18)
[Note: it’s 18/20 – 20 is the maximum grade possible)

Than again, maybe it’s not  a mistake. Perhaps the teacher really enjoys giving high grades in the 18-20 range. Now wouldn’t that be different…

 Link to the page

UPDATE: Read my next post for an explanation of why this is funny.

ACM ICP

I just got an email (via the faculty-wide spam network) about the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICP) or more precisely about SWERC 08. For a few moments I thought “hey, this might be fun”. A second later I read something like

“Languages allowed: C, C++, Java or Pascal”

Yay it’s 1995 again!!!

Pascal? Didn’t Pascal die like more than a decade ago?

C++ and Java are so 90’s… where are the cool languages? Python? Ruby? Heck even Erlang and Haskell?

Considering the “retro” theme, I would’ve was expecting Lisp and Fortran to be in there. (Not (that I have anything against (lisp))).

So basically the point of the contest is seeing how well you do with a handicap? Kinda like the Olympic 100m with a broken leg (or 2 if you’re using C)?

Sounds very interesting but I rather go cut myself with the portuguese tokio hotel fans (via Tiago Farrajota)…