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diff --git a/docs/ta/index.md b/docs/ta/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62d183d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ta/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# TA Adventures + +For some reason, I managed to become a TA for VG151, Accelerated +Introduction to Computers and Programming. There are a few possible +reasons. One of my guesses is that the professor is also a Linux user. + +Our course infrastructure is almost exclusively FOSS: + +- Video conference: Zhumu (Chinese Zoom), non-FOSS +- SCM: git, FOSS +- Git forge: self-hosted Gitea, FOSS +- Instant messaging: self-hosted Mattermost, FOSS +- Online judge: self-hosted JOJ, FOSS +- Canvas, FOSS<sup>[citation needed]</sup> +- MATLAB, non-FOSS +- C/C++ Compiler: gcc, FOSS +- Build system: GNU Make and CMake, FOSS + +On 2022-08-19, I received an email from the undergraduate education office +(UEO) that I got the offer. Naturally I went "woo-hoo party timeeeee". +Later I met my colleagues, two sophomores and one junior, plus another +junior whose title is "volunteer assistant" (thanks Mack!). + +On 2022-09-13 the semester began with a campus lockdown due to a positive +case of Covid. As a result all lectures that afternoon switched to online +mode, just like the previous summer semester except now I'm at school +rather than home. This sucks _ass_. This _might_ be reversed if +circumstances go the good way, or it just might stay. + +Update: we switched to "hybrid mode" in late October, and then offline +only (save for international students). I went to VG151 classroom twice, +it was pretty populated. + +Update: whoops, back to online. + +Anyway, enjoy my compilation of blogposts on life being a TA: + +- [Funny shit](vg151_funny_shit.md) +- [Lab 1](vg151_lab1.md) +- [Exam 1](vg151_e1.md) + +VG151 came to an end in December 2022. |