Ode to the boys who code Tomorrow is “Computer Science Day” here at Bishop’s, an event initiated by some profs and students in the division to promote the department to students and other interested parties on campus. I’ve gotten to know several of the guys involved on some of the projects for tomorrow’s presentations, and it’s rather cool to see them coding their little butts off trying to finish something that is a pretty remarkable display of their abilities.

(See them, coding away...? I've been spying on the webcam.)

(These boys are all wearing pants.)

You see, the administration at our school seems to be almost stuck in the dark ages as far as automated systems for student records, student services, course registration, etc. I’m not sure whose idea it was, but these guys have been working on creating an entirely new online registration system for the past several weeks to demo tomorrow and presumably implement at some point down the road.

It’s quite impressive. I’m the girl who’s all about real world applications for computer stuff, so if it looks good, is user-friendly and is functional, I'm happy. We have a pretty sad excuse for an online registration system currently. It's been interesting to see the amount of thought and effort that goes into a system like this. It also makes you wish they had done this years ago so we could just use something that makes sense!

And that, my friends, is the non-technical, non-geek description of things... Yay, geeks...!  | ¶ 7:12 p.m.