Bloggin' from School

It seems like the school filtering software doesn't ban Blogger and so, to free up some time later in the day, I'm doing today's post in the Computing lab. During my Computing lesson. It's either that or revise and I honestly can't be bothered doing that. Plus, our revision notes and questions aren't too hot. I give you an example question:


Sam, sitting beside me, has drawn my attention to the lack of a question mark but if you can't spot the overwhelming mistake in the order of the answers, then get the hell off my blog.

Indeed, the whole Scholar system that we're supposed to use for revision of various subjects on the computers can get a bit wacky from time to time. For example, ever heard of the game Towers of Hanoi? It's an ancient puzzle that crops up from time to time in various video game puzzles nowadays. The basic idea is that you have a number of discs of varying sizes and a number of posts. You must move the discs from the first post to the last so that they end up as they start, in a sort of triangular shape. For three posts and four discs, the minimum number of moves possible is 15. This is the result Sam got on a Scholar version yesterday:

Yeah... I eventually figured out it was a programming error that let the user move a disc out from beneath another one that Sam had unknowingly exploited. Still, running out of time now. Even when I do these things in the afternoon I'm rushed for time.