My Near-Term Agenda by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

Merry Christmas to all you devout Christians. I am not one of you. I am about to embark on a mission to carefully annotate with open source C# computer code my copy of “Exterior Ballistics, 1935” by Professor Ernest Edward Herrmann of then the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. This book set the standard for naval gunnery in World War II. Of course, our navy and especially our battle-wagons had the largest rifled artillery of any United States service. The 105 mm = 105 mm / 25.4 mm / inch = 4.13 inches, 120 mm / 25.4 mm / inch = 4.72 inches, and 155 mm / 25.4 mm / inch = 6.10 inch of our excellent United States Army and United States Marine Corps (semper fidelis) are puny in comparison to the mighty 8, 10, 12, 14, and finally 16 inch mostly rifled artillery of our incredible navy’s cruisers, dreadnoughts, and battleships of the World War I and World War II era ships. Even a destroyer of the USN Fletcher class had 5-inch (127 mm) / 38 caliber rifled artillery which had a 5 inch * 38 = 190-inch barrel length. Our mightiest naval artillery was, of course, my favorite the mighty 16 inch (406.4 mm) / 50 caliber rifles that had a barrel length of 16 * 50 inches = 800 inches = 66.6 feet!

Thanks,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry LaGrange College 1979

Bachelor of Science Computer Science LaGrange College 1994

Master of Software Engineering Auburn University 2000

Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Auburn University 2005

Gratis Open Source Computer Software Developer Since Summer 1978

1980 – 1983 Graduate Work in Chemistry and Mathematics at Georgia Tech

A Current Website I developed for my friends Wesley “Wes” and Missy Cochran:

http://thecochrancollection.com/Home

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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