by Dan East » Apr 13, 2001 @ 9:21pm
Casio could easily make the ROM upgradable, even if it requires a physical modification. That CE 1.0 device I was talking about (an HP 320) has a little panel in the front that pops off. You can pop it off and remove a small circuit board containing the ROM. Actually, I did upgrade the 320 from Windows CE 1.0 to 2.0 (HP released a free ROM upgrade in early 1998 ). I guess Casio just goofed by not making the ROM that accessable. Compaq has done a similar thing with the iPaq's battery. The device would have to be sent in to replace the battery.<br><br>I studied as little as possible! If it wasn't directly related to CS I avoided it at all costs. Even the Computer Science courses I took benefit me very, very seldom these days. Actually, linked lists are about the only thing I can think of that I was actually taught at college that I use today. I taught myself C and C++ (we spent a couple days covering C++ in "Survey of Programming languages", but that was mainly discussing OOP - Object Oriented Programming - and the C++ Class). Okay, we covered socket (TCP/IP) programming in a class too.<br>Looking back, the single greatest thing that helped me was working for YSU as a grader. I graded Pascal programming assignments. Basically I would build the student's project and see if it behaved per the assignment's requirements. Next came the part that helped me, which was critiquing their source code. Seeing how dozens of people went about solving particular coding problems was very helpful. In the vast majority of the cases they went about their coding poorly, using only the handful of pieces of the Pascal language that they knew. But on occasion I would see something and realize "that was a cool, optimum way to implement that". So I would try integrate that into my coding technique.<br>Things have changed greatly since then (it's been 5 years since I was at YSU). Then we programmed Pascal and Assembly on an IBM Mainframe, C and C++ on Sun Unix workstations, and some C++ (and VB) on Windows PCs. Today I'm sure much more time is spent in Windows specific programming.<br>I'm going to make myself stop typing now.<br><br>Dan East<br><br>Last modification: Dan East - 04/13/01 at 18:21:12