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It Literally Pays Off to Do Homework in Cambridge

Manfredas Zabarauskas — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:18:07 +0000

"Well done! - joint shortest traditional (and practical :-) sort for the OS1a prize tick". Cambridge, 2009.

45 minutes, 28 MIPS instructions and £25.
Computer Science FTW.

# Copyright Manfredas Zabarauskas, 2009.
# MIPS routine that reads an array of ten integers
# and prints the sorted array to console.
.text
main:   sub $t7, $sp, 40
l_read: li $v0, 5
        syscall
        sw $v0, 0($t7)
        add $t7, $t7, 4
        bne $t7, $sp, l_read
l_out:  sub $t8, $sp, 36
        sub $t7, 40
l_inn:  add $t8, $t8, 4
        lw $t2, -8($t8)
        lw $t3, -4($t8)
        ble $t2, $t3, no_swp
        sw $t2, -4($t8)
        sw $t3, -8($t8)
        move $t7, $sp
no_swp: bne $t8, $sp, l_inn
        beq $t7, $sp, l_out
l_prnt: li $v0, 11
        li $a0, 10
        syscall
        li $v0, 1
        lw $a0, 0($t7)
        syscall
        add $t7, $t7, 4
        bne $t7, $sp, l_prnt
        li $v0, 10
        syscall

University of Cambridge, Wolfson College

Manfredas Zabarauskas — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:52:57 +0000

Wolfson College

So, it’s finally official. In less than two months time I’ll be reading Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, Wolfson College. Hopefully that’s the last university in my universities chain – all in all there are not many better places to go to. Not many at all.

I’m already looking forward to it. To the legendary supervision sessions, to the world class experts in the field, to the competitiveness amongst the students. I’m sure I will finally arrive at the place where I’ll be the average guy between the best one’s… not the other way around.

(I’m not convinced that the latter applies to the basketball team, though. Well, I guess we’ll find that out pretty soon).

Confirmation Letter. Cambridge University, Wolfson College, 2009.