Summer was not as easy as I anticipated. In fact, the Summer semester is more stressful than a normal semester - the time seems so squeezed up. I did Programming Languages with Dr. Fonkam this summer, a Computer Science course and what a brilliant course it was! Praise God for it actually. Got to know lots of new stuff esp concepts in programming languages. Studied the various paradigms (imperative, functional, and logic), looked at different languages such as Scheme, Haskell, JRuby, ML, Prolog, (Scheme and ML were really cool cos they were totally new to me) - inference in ML, S-expressions in Scheme, Horn-Clause forms in Prolog, Continuations in Haskell, etc. We also learned about the motivating applications behind programming languages, abstract machines, computability theory & partial recursive functions (Turing machine and lambda calculus), compilation stages, influence of computer architecture on language design, interpretation process, attribute and context free grammars (BNF), semantics (denotational, axiomatic, operational, and interpreter), parse tree generation, recursion, type checking, scope, function calls and storage management (closures and stack discipline), and some other stuff that I can't recall right now.  Dr. Fonkam tried his best to complete the syllabus within the restricted time limit. As always, I loved his approach - very pragmatic, with lots of readings to broaden our knowledge. I also got to read very good literature - papers by McCarthy and Kowalski. The course text was also superb! Honestly, this was one of the best courses ever! I had an A- in the course and I thank Jesus for that! Love you Lord Jesus 

This is me and Nino in the Unix Lab studying for the Programming Languages course.

I had planned on revising the course and reading what was not covered for the remaining part of summer, but unfortunately, other things kept me preoccupied. I chose not to do Summer II cos it's too stressful, and also cos I needed to work and gather money to write the GRE and TOEFL for graduate school. I've started planning already as my very good friend Laura Dobson advised me. At any rate, praise God for a wonderful Summer I semester, and for the excellent rain! Yola looks like......Yola...... Surprised I said Yola not some other country? Well, a few days back I looked at the mountains all covered with floating clouds, the grass and trees drenched with the dew of heaven, and I commented "wow! it's almost like I'm in Europe!" and my brother Hamman says "You're not in Europe, you're in Yola. And this is what Yola looks like, and this is what Yola is; it doesn't have to look like Europe". So you see, Yola looks so very pretty when it looks like....Yola

Anyways, I plan to write more entries soon. This blog has been a blessing, and I pray I don't neglect posting entries on it. God willing, I will be able to achieve that . Thanks for reading.