Welcome to another episode of Blake hates many kinds of vegetables. And soccer, and working out. ALOT. To begin with, I attempted working out for the first time in a while. I fractured my wrist a while back, and it still hasn't healed. Not even close. Doing pushups is hurting me after 4, pretty much everything I do hurts my left wrist. I could be laughing at something on T.V. and my wrist would twinge. Not so much fun. On the bright side, soccer training isn't going so bad. Just kidding, it is. Can't run for more than 15 minutes straight yet, whereas before my hiatus from running I could do 20 without hurting. Not the best of beginnings, but it shouldn't be too hard to get back to my old level of stamina.
As well, I just started swimming again. A lot more fun than I remembered, and it isn't hurting my wrists, so I guess I am going to be doing it a lot more often. And with that, target body fat of 9% begins. Time to achieve it, end of summer. Let the pain Olympics begin.
On to programming news. Not much being done recently. Entire work period today dedicated to finding pictures. And my finding pictures, I mean playing doors on Kongregate. That game is nuts. Anyways. We have an assignment due tomorrow, but due to not having school on Friday, and blogs being marked tomorrow morning, I can't really comment on too much. Didn't really do anything worth posting. I have begun my hunt for interesting things to present to the class. And I cannot find a thing. At all. I went through like a list of 200 references that could be added, and I didn't really find anything to good. I probably will just steal someone's work and hope for the best.
Not much else to say. I honestly wanted to compete with Roy for my week 6 blog posts. Sadly, due to massive procrastination as well as the fact that I have a calculus test, not much work to be done on this. So for week 7 and week 8, expect amazing blogs that Will blow Hippie Jesus into the water. His water walking will end with these next 2 weeks. Believe it.
As well, A really cool video I saw on the internet that is worth watching.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Week 6, Post 1. Hurrah, for OOPs! Oops, I meant OOP.
So week 6 rolls around. And I still have no clue what to do with flash. Hours of videos , more like 20 minutes of being lost staring at videos made me realize I have no chance of doing well. So I will learn how to hack with C#, then hack into Mr. C's database and boost my mark. <_<
Anyways, on to the real meat. We began OOP (object oriented programming) today. And let me tell you, my first day was a disaster. Absolutely terrible, worse than most of Hippie Jesus' jokes. Just kidding, it doesn't even touch his jokes. Anyways,I couldn't figure out how to make my stupid program work. I created a class, and attached it to my form, and then tried to move forward with it. To begin with it, let me describe classes. They have 4 sections: Fields (placeholder properties of the class), Constructors (i have no idea why its always empty.), properties (change values of fields) and methods. This is fine and dandy, except my properties would not work. AT ALL. And I have no idea why. Normally this would not be a problem, I would ask Mr. C for help, except no one else has screwed up. No one, not even Mark, or the guy that has shown up about 5 days out of the last 30.
Being somewhat embarrassed, I pretended to follow along and squirm in agony. Thankfully due to some elbow grease and stealing code, I managed to get my program to work. And work it did. Except it was crappy. This was probably due to me spending most of my time working on my English assignment, then spending the next day studying for chemistry. Thankfully, both went through somewhat well, and I haven't snapped yet. Though the strange workload and my ADD is slowly catching up to me. Ah well, not much else to post. I procrastinated the entire March Break (YAY MARCH BREAK) and didn't get any work done but it was fun. Soon, I begin working out again, and I need to start training for soccer. Gotta love it. See ya later guys.
Anyways, on to the real meat. We began OOP (object oriented programming) today. And let me tell you, my first day was a disaster. Absolutely terrible, worse than most of Hippie Jesus' jokes. Just kidding, it doesn't even touch his jokes. Anyways,I couldn't figure out how to make my stupid program work. I created a class, and attached it to my form, and then tried to move forward with it. To begin with it, let me describe classes. They have 4 sections: Fields (placeholder properties of the class), Constructors (i have no idea why its always empty.), properties (change values of fields) and methods. This is fine and dandy, except my properties would not work. AT ALL. And I have no idea why. Normally this would not be a problem, I would ask Mr. C for help, except no one else has screwed up. No one, not even Mark, or the guy that has shown up about 5 days out of the last 30.
Being somewhat embarrassed, I pretended to follow along and squirm in agony. Thankfully due to some elbow grease and stealing code, I managed to get my program to work. And work it did. Except it was crappy. This was probably due to me spending most of my time working on my English assignment, then spending the next day studying for chemistry. Thankfully, both went through somewhat well, and I haven't snapped yet. Though the strange workload and my ADD is slowly catching up to me. Ah well, not much else to post. I procrastinated the entire March Break (YAY MARCH BREAK) and didn't get any work done but it was fun. Soon, I begin working out again, and I need to start training for soccer. Gotta love it. See ya later guys.
Week 5, Post 2. Hurrah, March Break! Rejoice O ye sinners, your salvation has come at last.
Welcome to the second edition of Blake hates random numbers, semi-colons, curly brackets, retardedly long commands for input boxes, random numbers and broccoli. Just kidding, I like broccoli. IN THE GARBAGE. Anyways, in this new and exciting post, there will be thrills, spill and everything else one would expect in one of my super awesome posts.
To begin with, I just wrote my random selection test. A few hours ago. And my teacher who normally updates marks 10 minutes after receiving all the tests still has not updated them. This makes me nervous. Although I did well enough to believe that I got 110% on the test (yes ladies, I am that awesome. And yes, I am a soon to be single engineer. Soon to be an engineer, I should say.) It was somewhat of a struggle.
I spent quite a bit of time studying, about 1.5 hours on written, maybe 20 minutes in code. I honestly didn't think my teacher would put any really hard questions, which he didn't. The bonus was similar to last years if I remember correctly (never found that damn test) and I got it. Hopefully. Knowing how stupid the random generator is, and the fact that I don't like if statements, I may not get my 110%. Ah well, I still did rather well, and I think most of the class did too.
Every day I thank God for these marks. Because I just downloaded Adobe Flash. The program to create flash programs or something along those lines. And then I realized, I AM LOST. COMPLETELY LOST. LIKE NO CLUE WHERE I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF JAPAN AFTER GOING TO SLEEP IN MARS LOST. I seriously have absolutely no idea where to start. So being the good little cherub that I am, I went to Mr. C's website and checked out his favorite's for flash. Which makes me realize, there are about 600 versions of flash. And actionscript. Then, to top it off, I have absolutely NO IDEA which version we are using. And talking to Hippie Jesus confuses me further. Mainly due to the fact that he can make programs on it so easily. May have to get tutoring, because I can't afford for my mark to drop off due to flash. Tutoring from Hippie Jesus. Just the though hurts me.
As well, all hopes for starting early on my Flash game have completely gone to crap. And as such, preparations for my amazingly amazing with a bit of amazing on the side game will be, you guessed it, amazing. Getting all my animations, code blocks and everything ready to nail that 70...err 110%! Off to the races I go, walking on broccoli the entire way.
To begin with, I just wrote my random selection test. A few hours ago. And my teacher who normally updates marks 10 minutes after receiving all the tests still has not updated them. This makes me nervous. Although I did well enough to believe that I got 110% on the test (yes ladies, I am that awesome. And yes, I am a soon to be single engineer. Soon to be an engineer, I should say.) It was somewhat of a struggle.
I spent quite a bit of time studying, about 1.5 hours on written, maybe 20 minutes in code. I honestly didn't think my teacher would put any really hard questions, which he didn't. The bonus was similar to last years if I remember correctly (never found that damn test) and I got it. Hopefully. Knowing how stupid the random generator is, and the fact that I don't like if statements, I may not get my 110%. Ah well, I still did rather well, and I think most of the class did too.
Every day I thank God for these marks. Because I just downloaded Adobe Flash. The program to create flash programs or something along those lines. And then I realized, I AM LOST. COMPLETELY LOST. LIKE NO CLUE WHERE I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF JAPAN AFTER GOING TO SLEEP IN MARS LOST. I seriously have absolutely no idea where to start. So being the good little cherub that I am, I went to Mr. C's website and checked out his favorite's for flash. Which makes me realize, there are about 600 versions of flash. And actionscript. Then, to top it off, I have absolutely NO IDEA which version we are using. And talking to Hippie Jesus confuses me further. Mainly due to the fact that he can make programs on it so easily. May have to get tutoring, because I can't afford for my mark to drop off due to flash. Tutoring from Hippie Jesus. Just the though hurts me.
As well, all hopes for starting early on my Flash game have completely gone to crap. And as such, preparations for my amazingly amazing with a bit of amazing on the side game will be, you guessed it, amazing. Getting all my animations, code blocks and everything ready to nail that 70...err 110%! Off to the races I go, walking on broccoli the entire way.
Week 5, Post 1. Hurrah for snow.
It's that time again kids. No, I don't mean Easter. It's time for my blog! And boy is it gonna be great. Just kidding, more filler, crap and a little bit of stealing to add to my blog! Not much happened this week, started up random numbers, working on selection. This means that the code is somewhat difficult to follow. For example. we would have to say, get a bag of balls, then calculate the chance of picking up a colored ball x number of times, compared to the others. What makes it more complicated is that when i was attempting this, I tried to do random selection without duplication.
What this means is that I will take a ball out of the bag, then not replace it. Then calculate the chances of getting another ball of similar colour, or whatever the question requires of me. And that reminded me of why I absolutely hate random numbers. Other than the fact that random numbers are random. The way C# does the generating of code is stupid. If i was to find a random number:
RandomNumber = r.Next(1,4) ;
This would give me the numbers 1-3. What the hell? No matter how you look at it, 1,4 it would be 1-4, or 1 up to 4. But if you read the intellisense (sp) then you would see upper bracket (goes to 4) and 1 is lower bracker (lowest of 1). If you ever have attempted this, it is not the case and is severely aggravating me.
Anyways, back to the point. The selection without duplication is somewhat difficult. And if I can find my test from last year, I think there was on it. So off to work I go. One think that i am grateful for is that by using random number generators, I never have to use the monster of a input box, for which my wrist is eternally grateful. Good bye faithful readers, and refreshing my page every day for 3 weeks hoping for an update. Your prayers have been answered.
What this means is that I will take a ball out of the bag, then not replace it. Then calculate the chances of getting another ball of similar colour, or whatever the question requires of me. And that reminded me of why I absolutely hate random numbers. Other than the fact that random numbers are random. The way C# does the generating of code is stupid. If i was to find a random number:
RandomNumber = r.Next(1,4) ;
This would give me the numbers 1-3. What the hell? No matter how you look at it, 1,4 it would be 1-4, or 1 up to 4. But if you read the intellisense (sp) then you would see upper bracket (goes to 4) and 1 is lower bracker (lowest of 1). If you ever have attempted this, it is not the case and is severely aggravating me.
Anyways, back to the point. The selection without duplication is somewhat difficult. And if I can find my test from last year, I think there was on it. So off to work I go. One think that i am grateful for is that by using random number generators, I never have to use the monster of a input box, for which my wrist is eternally grateful. Good bye faithful readers, and refreshing my page every day for 3 weeks hoping for an update. Your prayers have been answered.
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