Monthly Archives: September 2009

ECE 150 Programming Samples

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: September 21, 2009
This term, I’ve been given a position as a teaching assistant for ECE 150: Introduction to Programming at the University of Waterloo. In the spirit of learning, I’ve decided to put together a handful of applications over the course of the term in order to demonstrate various features of the C# language for programming beginners.
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Computer Engineering: A Graphical Overview

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: September 11, 2009
During my 4A term at the University of Waterloo, a set of events that I don’t fully understand myself resulted in me becoming the yearbook editor for the Computer Engineering 2009 (8-stream) class.  When I was putting together our pages, I stumbled across Wordle – a web application for generating word clouds – and thought [...]
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HP Mini 110 with Windows 7

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: September 3, 2009
After my previous laptop (an HP tablet) decided to pack it in for good after only 18 months of use, I decided to pick up a cheap netbook to tide me over until I’m finished my masters. The netbook I got was an HP Mini 110-1030CA; this post details installing Windows 7 on it and my initial thoughts on using the netbook.
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The Ideal Work Term Progression for Computer Engineers, part VI

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: September 1, 2009
The last part in a series of six on what you should be doing for each work term in order to get the best jobs with the best companies in your last few co-op terms when doing a co-op program at the University of Waterloo.
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