Any offense, real or imagined is a problem. More specifically, not mine.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
Hmm, I think I will have to check this out…
This is so cool. The second video is really neat.
F#.
Hmm, neat. I like functional programming. I used ML in a class at Clemson, and LISP in a class at UNLV. They were both a lot of fun, and had some really interesting ways of approaching problems.
I think I am going to have to try this out soon.
But then I see stuff like Geometry Algorithms.
Kinda neat, but I think I will need to look at the code more to decide on the quality of it…
http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/articles/90803.aspx
I found this when I was lookign up some info on locking wrt a project at work. The work project used very pessimistic locking, and I thnk locked too mcuh, leading to major performance problems. I don’t think this article helped, per se, but it does have some nice info.
Generic Classes (C# Programming Guide)
Okay, so I was thinking about the Project Euler, and decided that I should be looking at more generic forms for my solutions. For example, I was looking at closed formula for the sum of integers / primes / multiples of and remember that the C++ STL had accumulate template functions that could take function objects and iterators do interesting work. It would be nice if I could do the same for C#. So I started looking and found the above link. It is something for me to think about, anyway.
Okay, so I have finished the first 10 problems at Project Euler
and I am starting to build a library of functions that I can use. I am using C# 2.0. Here is the Sieve of Eratosthene (I can’t remember where I got the algorithm I used 
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | public static List< long > SieveOfEratosthenes(long n) { List< long > a = new List< long >(); a.Add(0); for (long i = 1; i < n; ++i) { a.Add(1); } int p = 2; while (p * p < n) { int j = p * p; while (j < n) { a[j] = 0; j += p; } ++p; while (a[p] != 1) ++p; } return a; } |
Sounds neat.
I saw a blurb about this in Computer Power User Magazine.
Visual Studio Hacks website for the very fine Visual Studio Hacks book.
Loving both atm.
I have been struggling terribly using notepad to do web design with CSS and the thought of CSS + PHP was starting to stress me out a bit. But as I am working through the very encouraging tutorials in Dreamwever 8: The Missing Manual, I have begun to believe it won’t be so bad. In a couple of days when I finish reading the book, I will take a stab a creating a new template for this blog. Then onto some Joomla templates and maybe an OS Commerce template. Fun stuff.
For the last year or so, I have been developing my first REAL application. I have been a programmer for a little over 5 years now, but have not created a non-trivial application until now. Some minor utilities, some testing, some documentation, some platform migration of existing code I have done. Creating a stand alone app, I have not.
So I have learned a few things, some about the world, most about me.
- I am not going to ship unless someone makes me. I like to tinker, to polish, to re-implement. (’Perfect is the Enemy of Good-Enough’)
- I am bad at estimating time.
- I greatly overestimate my ability to ‘cram’.
- I can actually do good application architecture / design. This was the real shock.
- I must not stop learning or reading. The more time I spend reading books / journals the more I realize how just dumb I am.
- I need to be more humble, because when I look back at what I thought was clever, ugh, it makes me cringe.
- I talk faster about my stuff than people can follow me.
Well, okay, these lessons were all about me. Most would not be shocking to people close to me, but I don’t slways remember them.
- I need to start a bibliography of good CS / Programming books.
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