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@maxieds maxieds commented Jun 25, 2019

I had these (incomplete, but still accurate) PDFs of the Spring 2005 edition of CS225@Illinois. They constitute a significant chunk of the handwritten lecture notes posted by the early Windows tablet adopting lecturer for the class at the time. Somewhere, there are also good typeset notes from this time period covering C++ fundamentals like inheritance in the same overly detail oriented style as the old and well publicized CS125 lecture notes from beyond the grave. I think that Cinda Heeren re-posted these PDFs as resources for students when she was teaching the class, so perhaps someone with more recent course documents could supplement this posting with copies of that. Please contribute by filing a pull request to this repo if you have anything related to this. I'm going to leave the pull request open for now since it is technically an incomplete expression of the author's copyrighted works.

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… style was characteristic, and the handwriting plain
I would be remiss to mention this little diddy, a saccharine for sure thinly veiled insult to some and obscene public fellation of yet others ([original citation](http://slice.cs.uiuc.edu/pubs/peiper_thesis.pdf)). It provides an effective defense of what I will point out again (and probably later again if it comes up) constitute a bored, half assed, incomprehensible set of data structures notes scribbled by a famous, however desperately hung over alter ego from a decade's past, that has still been defended as a golden saint in some online holy war debates (sadly no longer online). 

My tour through a slow grinding, lecturer-at-me eyeball gaze scorching tour through an already hellish set of first-time material for anyone in this class was over the Spring of 2005 (Cinda's class was not easier when I re-took it years later for credit with all the fantastic improvements, with the exception of some long archived missing lab code) -- ladies, and well gentlemen and worlocks that be, can we all together scream SEGFAULT really loud one more time for Jason at the back of the room (iff and only if you are totally cool and raise your hand)? :troll face: Personally, I preferred to take notes in class (a feature I have been mocked for by the "prankster", or court jester penguin, that was at the front of the room that year, because it never rendered correctly from the original language choices otherwise (C++, English, Jas0n). Judge yourself from the facts and artifacts left to us in the collected time capsule of this PR whether my methodology was correct.

I was actually unaware of this socially relevant teaching experiment in CS225 from 2005 until recently. My experiences with it in CS242 were to play with the terminal printing on the distributed tablets over WIFI in front of Professor Kamin standing next to me that day. Why my fanboy [242 TA](https://www.facebook.com/notes/maxie-schmidt/𝙄-𝙝𝙖𝙙-𝘾𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖-𝙝𝙚𝙧-𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩-𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧-𝙤𝙛-𝘾𝙎225-𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠-𝙩𝙝𝙚-𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙨-𝙤-𝘽𝙖𝙬𝙡𝙨/616040372542752/) didn't mention his participation in the research project until we found this today remains elusive, but not a detail we ought really be preoccupied with for too long, right? 

Mostly, I want this note defending the honorable legacy of Jason's good qualities to be remembered in case I make the old boy look to foolish by reproducible authentic example elsewhere. In all fairness to historical scholars that seek to portray an accurate depiction of things as they lie, we cannot neglect this fan club of tri-colored ink. I always thought after viewing the online recordings from other CS classes that the clipped view of the whiteboard was an intentional delusion from the fact that Mr. Zych literally stared at me from minute 1-50 for nearly a semester incanting memorized material was done by him to dispose of his skeletons to speak of around that time. This account clearly contradicts, and accordingly negates, any way for me to claim otherwise. For that I am sorry (that I cannot omit verbose this tribute).

The original citation is freely available online as cited above. The author apparently received his thesis, or original research based, MS for this contribution to the course literature and departmental lore of lecturer personas past. Unfortunately, JZ's coursework based MCS tour through post graduate education did not allow us to capture the distinct essence of his stylistic contributions to this vast, fertile area of, well, CS and AP stats well enough to single out his pathological natural grasp on this stuff.
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