The weeks are flying by, blurring together. Work is steadily piling on. I’ve worked a lot on one project the past few days, but I have many more waiting to be truly started.
A list of all my projects:
- An Instant Messenger program (as a group), for which I am mostly designing and implementing the interface (this one lasts all year, the others are done by December)
- An email notification system (as a group), which is mostly to practice the process of planning projects and writing reports rather than learning to code
- A program that takes a mailing list, reads through it, and tells you of any possible duplicates
- A web-based calendar like Google Calendar (as a group), but we’re all focusing on the interface design because it’s for my human-computer interaction class
- A program that takes a long list of words and creates “word ladders” from them (i.e., given “flour” and “bread”, it comes up with “flour → floor → flood → blood → brood → broad → bread”)
- Extending a compiler (which I don’t know much about yet)
- One more that I will get tomorrow in class, and I know nothing about.
There’s a bit more I could do for that program tonight, but I’m stuck again, and this part isn’t a big portion of my grade. So I decided to leave it for tomorrow’s lab, where I can get help from the teacher again or a TA. Instead I hope to go out to the student union with some flatmates to get a break from nonstop lectures-labs-study-sleep.
Oh, and this weekend: more shopping downtown, and then Halloween. Which will be epic.
Photo: A group of street performers just after playing something on a busy street in the city centre. Note: it is a typical occurrence to see groups like this on a downtown street. I love it.