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CS371P #5

2011-10-022011-10-02 by mike

This class has been a quite a surprise. Not at all what I expected. There are a lot of language features, nuances, idiosyncrasies that don’t necessarily come up that often, at least for me. Plus, it’s been several years since I’ve coded professionally. I’m remembering many things about C/C++ that I haven’t thought about in […]

CS371P #4

2011-09-252011-09-25 by mike

First a little more on git branches. For proj2 I used quite a few branches and at one point I was in a cycle of trying things on different branches, frequently switching back and forth. What I noticed though is that I found myself committing changes to branches before they were fully baked a.k.a. before […]

CS 371P #3

2011-09-182011-09-18 by mike

I played with git branches a bit. I had my proj2 working and so I wanted to play around with it and try out several different ideas for improvement. I also wanted to play around with git branches since that claims to be one of it’s strengths. After monkeying around with PFD for a couple […]

CS 371P #2

2011-09-112011-09-11 by mike

Some of these quizzes are kickin my ass. I’ve been well prepared on the readings, but frequently that’s not what we’re quizzed on. I noticed this after the first couple of quizzes and thought I was making the necessary adjustments but I keep getting bitten. A quote comes to mind “the difference between an amateur […]

CS 371P #1

2011-09-042011-09-04 by mike

This the first in a series of blogs, one per week for my Fall 2011 CS 371p class – for the 15 weeks. We’re to write about our experience in the class, what we like, don’t like, what we learned, anything cool or helpful etc. Two or three paragraphs per week for extra credit. No […]