Barbara Bracken's Home Page

Emeritus Associate Professor

Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science Department, Wilkes University

Course Links,fall, 2025

CS115

Hobbies

Golf

A message to my students

Do you think I am too harsh when you receive very little credit for a program that executes to completion but does not produce the results specified by the assignment? If so, please explore this: link. In the real world programs that do not meet specifications have serious consequences.

Family: Husband, Don, and Cats, LittleB, Orville, and Wilbur

LittleB, Manx

Orville and Wilbur, American Bobtail


The late Flame, Candy, Beazil Bomb, and Arthur Dent were Manx. They were not show quality. Show quality is no tail vertabrae and a rounded look. The late Arthur Dent's picture is below. He was show quality.

Both Beazil and Arthur had feline diabetes.

The late Flame

Flame was LittleB's brother. He dies at 5 years old from FIP.

The late Candy

Candy was adopted from SPEAK (an organization that takes in stray animals). She arrived there in 2000 as a young adult. She lived there until September, 2004. She was very sweet and happy to finally have a home.

The Late Beazil Bomb (born September, 1994, died July, 2010)

(named from an old song about a race horse that always comes in last):

The late Arthur Dent (June, 1992, - August, 2004)

Arthur Dent was named from a very lovable character in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams.