posted March 03, 2003 11:26 PM         

Speaking of exams, I remembered really one funny incident. I and my friend were going to our former classmate's debut party, and we invited another friend who went to a different college along. He declined, saying that "exams are coming up". We asked when, he said "in two months". We really went on the floor on that one coz we were having our exams by NEXT WEEK! LOL

posted March 10, 2003 04:23 PM         

Sheba

posted March 11, 2003 04:11 PM         

Obviously I know nothing.

posted March 13, 2003 10:53 PM         

Currently I'm designing a program for dad coz he wants me to setup an algorithm that construct schedules (i.e. make sure nothing conflicts and all that) for each individual rooms of the school he's running. The algo's quite simple. It's the GUI that's killing me. I'm using Java (which, although makes GUI easy to set up, is very tedious to type). For some reason, I like it way better than VB. Probably because VB is mostly eye candy and I'm more after code efficiency. I'm doing it for about four or five days now (and 3-7 hours a day doing nothing but coding. lol) and it's about 15-20% done. Which means hopefully by the end of April I'll be able to finish it... although I'm not sure coz I've still got a few projects to submit for schoolwork.

I'm taking a break from programming, though. I'm just setting up the documention, with what little I've done. lol. Makes maintenance and revisions a lot easier that way.

I really should get paid for this. -.- But, what the hell. Dad is dad, although I don't think he would mind paying (he believes all kinds of work should be compensated. Dunno if it's a Taurean trait, though.) he's still family. Hell, I'm doing this just for the experience, anyway. Plus, it'll be good to see (if I ever do finish it, that is. Have this notorious habit of leaving lotsa strings hanging. Gemini rising? Dunno. Probably.) it being used for something. Prove to dad I ain't just using the pc as a toy.

Programming comes in many forms. Do you know any javascript, perl, asp, jsp and even flash's actionscript? They're light programming languages. Although you won't probably be able to do hardcore programs with them (well, maybe except flash. But flash programs are usually telling flash to go to specific frames depending on specific conditions, or placing items at specific locations. It's more on interface rather than on algorithms.) they're still programming languages and will help you understand how a computer works.

If you do wanna go into programming, I recommend Java, which is a free download from java.sun.com. They also have a free online tutorial there and forums so you can post questions and other stuff. The downside of java is that it doesn't have an IDE like VB does. You code your... er... code into a text editor like notepad (makes indentation and organization a b*tch) and then compile it via the DOS command prompt (which makes compile and runtime debugging HELL). The good news is there are lots of Java IDE's scattered around the net, the least being Sun's own Java IDE, Forte. Get an IDE that makes you concentrate on the main task, which is coding. This means after setting up the program (i.e. installing, linking the java compiler to the IDE, etc.) you should be doing coding most of your time. The most important thing you should look for in an IDE is output capturing, so when you encounter any error in your programming, you can immediately zero in on them. Other things you should consider is internal file management (Java programming rarely takes up only one file) and code completion (i.e. tells you how functions work and their arguments, etc.). I'm using Gel for Java and I like it very much. Got into trouble setting up for a while, but once I started coding debugging was a breeze.

posted March 17, 2003 01:48 PM         

And long posts are good!