Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:00:40 03/29/00
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On March 29, 2000 at 19:29:34, James Swafford wrote: >I had an appointment with the CompSci chair at East >Carolina University today. I was hoping to "bypass" >an intro course based on prior experience with computers. > >We sat down, and he proceeded to ask me a series of >questions to gauge my knowledge. He asked me about >hashing, pointers, binary search trees, and the like. >I mentioned that I work on a chess program in my spare >time. > >We talked about computer chess for a while, and.... >as a result, he awarded me 2510/2610/2611 and 3510! >(That's two intro courses, a lab, and a data structures >course.) And a whale of an ELO, for that matter. >So, the list of "benefits" I have received from computer >chess has grown! By 10 hours of "knowledge credit" to be >exact. :-) > >Just thought I'd share. :-)) Congratulations on a big slice of free school! ;-)
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