Programming Marathon
The past three days have been one long programming marathon for me. Remember that project I mentioned earlier in the week? I'm working on that. I've so far written nearly 2200 lines of Perl code, and it doesn't even really output anything useful yet. Once I get to the useful part, though, it should be smooth sailing, since I will have already implemented the infrastructure.
Twenty percent of the grade for this project consists of "coolness" points. The idea is, you guessed it, to make the program do something cool. I was going to do a 3D graphical representation of these systems that are normally in 2D, but I don't think I'll have the time in the next two days to figure out how to do that in a way that doesn't suck. I'll have to come up with another cool thing to make it do. Hmm.
At any rate, I want to have this finished by Monday night or, at the latest, early Tuesday afternoon. I have to demo the program for my professor, and that has to happen before Wednesday because I'll be flying out of here Wednesday.
I've been programming for about 14 hours straight (not quite straight — there have been a couple breaks to walk to the convenience store two blocks away and get one of those horrible cappuccinos they have), so it's about time to see Katy for a bit. Hooray. :)
Also, I figured out my ICQ password the other day, after not having logged into ICQ for probably two years or so. Net_Fish, also known as Nick, who lives in Tasmania, found me. A selection from our conversation:
(02:48:30) cww: It goes well. Doing a masters degree in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
(02:48:47) Net_Fish: blimey, talk about getting up in the world