If anyone is interested, I put up a project page for the game programming course I’m taking (CSE380). For my individual project, I’m making a game called “I WOKE UP LATE AND NOW I HAVE TO ROCKET JUMP PASS ZOMBIES TO GET TO CLASS” or IWULANIHTRJPZTGTC for short or ZOMBIES for shorter. There hasn’t been much progress but I’m working on it.
Here it is: http://chenstopher.com/cse380
Last time I tried to learn dvorak, it was a complete failure. I was typing way too slow and I had work to complete so I just gave up on it. I’ve decided to try and learn it again mainly because I was completely bored out of my mind but also cause I’ve been starting to feel some pain in my fingers. Dvorak is supposed to be “healthier” for your fingers or something cause you don’t have to move your fingers as much.
I already had my desktop keyboard switched to dvorak. I wanted to seriously learn it this time so I even converted my Macbook’s keys to dvorak. Wasn’t too hard. Just popped them off with a tiny screw driver and put them back in the correct order. Now people who want to use my computer won’t be able to because all the keys are in the wrong places. Awesome!
I’ve been playing typeracer everyday since I’ve switched over to speed up my typing. Right now I’m typing at around 40 wpm (vs 80wpm when I was using qwerty) which isn’t too bad considering I’ve only been using dvorak for four days. But I feel like a noob cause I have to keep looking at the keys. The most annoying thing about dvorak is that all the shortcut keys are now on the other side of the keyboard. Ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-s, ctrl-z are all on the right side. Also I keep typing “ass” when I want to type “all” because the ’s’ is now where the ‘l’ used to be. Kind of annoying
That’s all for now. Off to play some more typeracer. I’ll revisit this when my typing speed reaches 100+ wpm.
I just got a new set of headphones to replace the ones I broke the other day. They’re the Audio Technica ATH-AD700’s and they are awesome. They look a little weird with the purple/pink colored metal sides but they’re light, comfortable, and sound great.
I got ‘em for $81 at Amazon. Great deal. I love buying myself presents for birthdays.
I just took my CSE214 test.
There were three questions with two parts each. We had to write some methods for some data structures. I breezed by the first two and thought I finished the third but for some stupid reason, it wouldn’t work.
I sat there debugging this one stupid thing for at least an hour. I couldn’t figure out why the stupid chained hash table was inserting null entries when I tried to add something into it. Eventually, I had enough and deleted everything and started over. Took me two minutes to rewrite the method and it finally worked! I tested it with the grade calculator that the teacher gave us and I got 15 out of 15.
I wanted to get out of there so I quickly handed in the files and the paper, left the computer lab, walked downstairs and out the building. Then I remembered something super important that I forgot to do: update the hash table’s size.
FUCK.
I couldn’t go back and add it, I had already left the exam area and handed it in. I felt so dumb. I just couldn’t shake the fact that I had forgotten something totally stupid and now I won’t get perfect scores on all the tests I’ve taken for that class. Yeah, it sounds lame that I am worried about something like that. But I already forgot to hand in the last hw on time (luckily I was allowed to hand it in late). And this comp sci stuff is probably the one of the only things I’m good at so I’m feeling kind of mad at myself ‘cause I forgot to do it.
Now I have to ace the final. Too bad it’s multiple choice. I hate multiple choice comp sci exams.
