Exam week

Tomorrow, Monday, I have my SYS exam at 9am. I have to leave by 6:50am... joy. At 2pm, I have to write my OOP exam.

I'm a little worried since I'm not sure how my 2nd test results look, and I'm pretty sure the exam will cover a lot of what was on our 2nd test. I'll have a good 4 hours to study for OOP after my SYS exam tomorrow. I'm going to practice writing the code for topics to hopefully help me write things a bit quicker. I can't do much more where the exam is all open book.. if I don't understand the concepts by now, I don't think studying will help much.

Still, I hope everything goes well, and good luck to those who are writing exams this week!

I wasn't just singing "Mambo No. 5"

I guess you could say I'm excited to have finished my assigned classes for the OOP assignment. Although.. I have no doubt that tomorrow will be filled with testing and tweaks (since we haven't begun any testing yet). Still happy to have everything compiling! :)

For some reason, I feel as though testing will be a breeze. Knock on wood... let's not jinx it.

This is madness

In OOP244, we talked a little about "this->". We did use it in our code, but it was given to us so it was never really a question.

Until OOP344, I sort of knew it.. but not enough to be able to give you a clear answer. Well, I'm happy to say that because of the assignment we're working on, I now get it. I'm now using it enough in my own code to realize what it is.

Yeah, not an amazing break through.. but I feel as though it was blog-worthy. I'm pretty happy with myself as I go through the assignment and notice that I'm catching onto concepts a bit more. It's neat.

Workday-Wednesday

Let's see what's on my table for my day off, shall we?

1. Download Microsoft Visio and continue working on the DBS assignment.

2. English course requires a online response (being graded on it).

3. Try to figure out INT's lab5...

4. Do DBS' lab8. Due tomorrow.

5. IRC Meeting for OOP at 8pm.

6. Hopefully get started on OOP's assignment after meeting.

I'm not looking forward to this, but it's always easier if I make lists.

/salute

OOP344 Midterm Tomorrow!

So I'm going through programs we've seen in class, and since our textbook is so.. dry.. I decided to look online for pages related to the topic we've covered so far. Because of this, I end up copying down the interesting stuff and points to my own notes (helping me study, along with understanding). I thought I'd post links to all the ones I've used so far so when it comes time for the exam, I have all the good pages with topic picked out already.

These references should all be in order from earliest in the semester up until midterm. Note that I didn't feel the need to review on every topic (ie, #include), so those are not listed.

#Define and Macros:
http://www.helsinki.fi/atk/unix/dec_manuals/DOC_40E/HTML/AQTLTBTE/DOCU_077.HTM

(tricky, but some good examples later on in the text)

Casting in C:

http://www.aui.ma/personal/~O.Iraqi/csc1401/casting.htm
(simple, also touches on the simple sizes of data types)

Void Pointers:
http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/613-void-pointers/
(simple, good examples)

Pointers to Functions:
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/function-pointers.html
(can be tricky.. make sure to read over a few times)

Multi-dimensional Arrays and Pointers:
http://www.taranets.net/cgi/ts/1.37/ts.ws.pl?w=329;b=284
(with a little bit on pointer arithmetic)

Pointer Arithmetic:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/notes/sx10b.html
(pictures!)

Little bit on Unions:
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/chapter6/unions.html

Little bit on Enumeration:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/whbyts4t(VS.80).aspx

Typedef stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typedef

Logical Operators:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/commandref/appc_logical.html

(**includes bitwise)

Again, this isn't everything, but these are the websites I went to and used. This is for my own reference, and please note that more than just the above were covered!

FSOSS

My goal was go to go to Thursday's workshops. I had paid my fees, woke up on time, and even left with coffee in hand.

I managed to get to Finch's bus station, but then it went down hill. I got on a bus that said "Steeles" and also "YorkU," so I asummed it would be the right one. Well... little did I know, it actually changed routes or something after I had gotten on, and went in entirely the opposite direction of school. I didn't bring enough change with me to take more than 2 routes, either.

I really don't understand the bus route system here in Toronto - or maybe it's just the TTC. Would help if they didn't charge an arm and a leg to board the bus. If I had managed to make it to school on time, that would've been an extra 10% bonus to my grades.

I'm not too thrilled.

OOP Assignment

Test 9.24 passes, and then the program crashes! We end up corrupting "str" somehow... yet it passes everything.

My team and I have been stuck on this last issue for hours. No luck :( We have no idea what on Earth could be causing this - or how to fix it. We only have 3 hours left, too! And I still need to go over all the indenting and alignment.

...Doesn't help that I'm spending my night looking at code when I have an INT322 and DBS301 midterms tomorrow. Thank god we can have a cheat sheet.. ugh. I don't have a good feeling about these.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well since it's a long weekend, that means my workload is usually larger. This weekend, I had planned to take care of OOP's prj.02, DBS's Assignment #1, along with my English's essay revision.

It's been a little hard getting these completed because my teammates all see to be busy! I don't know what's left to do, or how much they've done for OOP. I'll have to start looking at other functions tonight and get a rough idea for them just in case they didn't get any of it done.

DBS's Assignment is coming along. We've managed to all send a template back and forth via email and fill our answers in. The last question that's left is the hardest, which I'm unsure if any of us have claimed to do yet.. I'll also have to take a look at that tonight just in case nobody else does.

And for English.. well.. it's not hard. I just put it off because I really dread essays. I hate them so much that I accept a shitty mark just so I don't have to spend too much time on it. I don't know why Seneca makes us take English electives :( I'm not learning English! I'm learning computer languages. Make me write essays in those and that would be something I'd be willing to put time into.

Week 3

My OOP344 class was cancelled today which worked out well because I happened to be sick, too, and wasn't going to make it. I found out 30 minutes too late that the class would be held online in our IRC chat instead :( Guess I know for next time that online classes will be a possibility.

Here's to hoping we get our SVN accounts soon!

Week 2

Today was our first day of real programming, and we looked at basic input/output functions dependent on platform. It's scary how much I've forgotten over the summer, but it's slowly coming back. 2nd week down and I haven't been confused yet! :)

We also have 3 possibilities for our end semester project: IRC chat client, file browser, or web browser. I hope we end up with the IRC chat client. I'd love to be able to customize my own.

1st

OOP344 is the only class I have homework in so far, and it's due tonight! Guess that means I should get started. Luckily, making a blog is one of the tasks on my list. Check.