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Dumand Posted Aug 15, 1999
hmmm, seemed to just send it?!?
Anyway - I am from Lymm (yes, that small village near Warrington!), just finished my GCSEs (but not 14). How d'ya find them (presumably by walking into your school...). Anyway, Lucky you being skipped ahead - I wish I had Been
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26199 Posted Aug 19, 1999
Hmmm, the GCSEs were okay, apart from coursework, generally having to attend school and exam stress. *Shrug* they're over now...
Are you planning on going to college at all? I'm (barring accidents) going to a place called Winstanley.
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Dumand Posted Aug 21, 1999
No, I am staying at my school which has a sixth-form college (?) attached to it! I am doing (with any luck in my GCSEs), Maths (with mechanics), Physics, Computing and Further Maths
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26199 Posted Aug 23, 1999
Those are exactly the subjects I will be taking... and in fact, it's a popular choice, I know at least one other person who will be doing Double Maths, Physics and Computing... I mean, it's the obvious choice for a career in computers...
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Dumand Posted Sep 2, 1999
Well, I got 4 A* (English Lit (?!?!?!?), Physics, Geography and Maths), Five As (English, Systems, Bio., Chem., IT) and a B (French)
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26199 Posted Sep 5, 1999
That's freaky... we did almost all the same subjects
I got A*s in Double Science, Maths, Geography, English 'n' English Lit... As in IT 'n' Systems, and Bs in French 'n' Music.
Hmmm, I wonder if it was the same Systems thing... making an electronic/mechanical project to solve a problem? I made a fish feeder, meself.
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26199 Posted Sep 13, 1999
Cor, wasn't it stressful though? I thought so, anyhow. Don't tell anyone, but my fish feeder never worked anyhow...
It's a good thing I was good at the theory, otherwise I'd never have gotten the A that I did get.
This is my first use of the internet from College... there are lots and lots of computer connected to the internet, and it's outside of college hours right now (I'm waiting for my lift back) so I don't think they'll mind...
(Note to any Winstanley IT people who might be reading this... if you *do* mind, just drop me a message and I won't use this site from college ever again... I'm not here to annoy anybody)
Sooo, how're you finding college so far?
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Dumand Posted Sep 19, 1999
Sixth Form actually - and I am loving it!! Hmm... My Temperature sensor effort didn't either...
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26199 Posted Sep 24, 1999
Temperature sensor? What did it do?
My project consisted of a 24-hour timer circuit (which actually worked!) attached to a mechanism which would rotate a food contained - which had a hole in the top - once when activated, hence feeding the fish.
The problem is I couldn't get the motor control thingy to work... I think the circuit I designed was flawed. Anyway, when I connected it up like I figured the motor made a horrible buzzing... so I just taped masking tape round one of the wires so that it would do anything at all After all, with a 24-hour timer the examiner's hardly going to test it...
*Shrug* I only got a B for the coursework bit anyhow.
I'm getting on pretty well at college... although I've already almost finished the computing course (you work at your own pace, you see)
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Dumand Posted Sep 25, 1999
What did it do - In the end - Nothing. It was meant to return values to the computer.
Lucky you - working at on pace - I haver to work at pace of everyone else (and tell the teacher what to do when we start programming on monday.
Check out my new (very bare) site - www.alexweb.org.uk
Alex
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26199 Posted Sep 25, 1999
Pretty neat... a lot better than my page, anyhow... which... um... is at h2g2.com/U26199 . For some reason I ain't ever put up a proper webpage... never got round to it, really.
Sound like it was (supposed to be) an interesting project... which computer was it designed for? I've never really worked out how to get data into a PC...
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Dumand Posted Sep 29, 1999
It was going to use a paralell port - and then assembly langauge to read/write to / from it!
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26199 Posted Oct 1, 1999
Hmmm... sounds like it would have been really neat if it had worked...
The only electronics->computer thingy I've done was on my Amstrad CPC 464; it had one of those nine-pin joystick ports where you just connect one pin to another to send input... I made an alarm system for my room
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SallyM Posted Jan 27, 2000
Hi sorry to butt in on this part of the conversation, but I did Maths, Physics, Computing A-levels and am now training to be a Dispensing Optician - which is kinda different to computing. Although when I was young I did want to become a programmer.
P.S. I went to college at Sir John Deane's college in Northwich, which is near where that other person went.
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26199 Posted Jan 27, 2000
Hehe, glad t' have someone revive this rather old and weary thread
I suppose maths, physics and computing are a pretty strong set of A-levels whatever you end up doing... although at this juncture I still plan on becoming the best games programmer the world has ever known
A 26199 can dream, can't he?
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