The Future Awaits Us

Content While you are here.... In UCC, we don't have 404 errors. We have Peter Flynn (2nd from left) errors. Our first webmaster was the first person to ever break a link on the web, when he moved the location of a webpage on UCC's servers (9th website in the world). without telling Tim Berners-Lee. Suffice it to say, such a change resulted in the need to error handle such an occurance, and the 404 was born. Thanks to our own Peter Flynn. Peter retired in August 2018 but his impact on UCC, Ireland and ultimately the world won't be forgotten!

Content First coding class of CS Prof: Warning are as important as errors Me:

The eternal developer's dilemma in flowchart form! If AI-generated code doesn't work, it's a hard "DON'T DO IT." If it works but you have no clue why? Also "DON'T DO IT" (future you will curse present you during debugging). But if it works AND you understand why? "SURE" go ahead! This is basically the modern version of "I found this snippet on StackOverflow" except now we're copying from robots instead of humans. The flowchart perfectly encapsulates that brief moment of temptation when ChatGPT spits out something that runs without errors but feels like forbidden magic. Remember folks: understanding > working code.

The only personality test that actually matters in tech. Forget whether you're a Virgo or Gemini—your choice between JetBrains Mono and Fira Code reveals more about your soul than any horoscope could. Nothing sparks more religious wars in a dev team than font preferences. The Fira Code fanatics with their ligature obsession, the MonoLisa users who somehow justified spending actual money on a font, and that one weird senior dev still using Comic Sans "ironically." The truth is we all spend more time staring at these glyphs than at our families. Might as well pick one that makes those 3am debugging sessions slightly less soul-crushing.

Content FREEZE CS 4620 Intelligent Systems Changing random stuff until your program works is "hacky" and "bad coding practice." But if you do it fast enough it is "Machine Learning" and pays 4x your current salary.

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