A little bit more than 2 weeks from the beginning of the semester I have an idea what are the courses going to be and what I’ll be doing during the semester. In my Economics course there is this old professor that “is teaching this course for 35 years” and since the beginning of the semester we’ve been watching videos of “Economic USA”. Pretty boring. In assembly language, we write programs like

  1. ; Georgi Todorov - 2006
  2. ; " Write a program that reads a digit entered at the KB, doubles it, then compares the result to 9.
  3. ; Your program will then print either twice the number or 9, whichever is larger."
  4. ;
  5. ; Copyright under the terms of the GPL
  6. ;
  7. data segment
  8. crlf db 0dh, 0ah, '$'
  9. question db 'Enter a number? ', '$'
  10. data ends
  11. WORKING_STORAGE SEGMENT
  12. dw 10h dup(?)
  13. WORKING_STORAGE ENDS
  14. CODE SEGMENT
  15. assume SS:WORKING_STORAGE, CS:CODE
  16. start:
  17. mov ax, data
  18. mov ds, ax
  19. mov dx, offset question
  20. mov ah, 9
  21. int 21h
  22. mov ah, 1
  23. int 21h
  24. sub al, 30h
  25. mov bl, al
  26. add bl,al
  27. mov dx, offset crlf
  28. mov ah,9
  29. int 21h
  30. cmp bl,9
  31. jg number
  32. mov dl,9
  33. add dl,30h
  34. mov ah,2
  35. int 21h
  36. jmp quit
  37. number:
  38. mov dl,1
  39. add dl,30h
  40. mov ah,2
  41. int 21h
  42. sub bl,10
  43. mov dl,bl
  44. add dl,30h
  45. mov ah,2
  46. int 21h
  47. jmp quit
  48. quit:
  49. mov dx, offset crlf
  50. mov ah,9
  51. int 21h
  52. mov ax, 4c00h
  53. int 21h
  54. CODE ENDS
  55. end start

or:

  1. ; Georgi Todorov - 2006
  2. ; " Write a program to read in a single letter. If the letter is either y or Y
  3. ; your program will print YES, otherwise NO"
  4. ;
  5. ; Copyright under the terms of the GPL
  6. ;
  7. data segment
  8. crlf db 0dh, 0ah, '$'
  9. question db 'Enter a letter? ', '$'
  10. NOPE db 'NO','$'
  11. YEAH db 'YES','$'
  12. data ends
  13. WORKING_STORAGE SEGMENT
  14. dw 10h dup(?)
  15. WORKING_STORAGE ENDS
  16. CODE SEGMENT
  17. assume SS:WORKING_STORAGE, CS:CODE
  18. start:
  19. mov ax, data
  20. mov ds, ax
  21. mov dx, offset question
  22. mov ah, 9
  23. int 21h
  24. mov ah, 1
  25. int 21h
  26. cmp al,'Y'
  27. jz yes
  28. cmp al,'y'
  29. jz yes
  30. mov dx, offset crlf
  31. mov ah, 9
  32. int 21h
  33. mov dx, offset NOPE
  34. mov ah, 9
  35. int 21h
  36. jmp quit
  37. yes:
  38. mov dx, offset crlf
  39. mov ah, 9
  40. int 21h
  41. mov dx, offset YEAH
  42. mov ah, 9
  43. int 21h
  44. jmp quit
  45. quit:
  46. mov dx, offset crlf
  47. mov ah, 9
  48. int 21h
  49. mov ax, 4c00h
  50. int 21h
  51. CODE ENDS
  52. end start

In Environment the only topic is how bad humans are and how because of us the planet is in such a bad shape and there are so many illnesses around.
My last course, independent study - “Spectrum Analysis of Network Traffic” ( Sounds pretty cool :) ) I haven’t done much about. I’ve only read some big portion of the book Fourier Series by Georgi Tolstov. I didn’t do much more, because I had to finish my other Independent study - Networking. Fortunately the paper is almost finished. It just needs some polishing and it is done.