Week 6

Focus week. No lectures.

We had a lab for Databases that was very cool. We are using SQLite to study relational databases. That’s what I’m talkm bout!!

I got a 100 on the coursework for Principles of Programming. I’m very happy!

I learnt and used structure pointers in C in one of the programs that required manipulating dates. It felt amazing! Programming languages nudge you towards a way of thinking. There’s no way I would have considered something like this in any other language. My first thought would be to return a new value from a function.

Definitely seeing my appreciation grow for lower-level computer details and C especially. It’s such a concise language! I have the K&R book with me, which I’m using as a reference; very few modern languages could be described in such a succinct manner.

One of the meetings for Software Engineering was annoying. I completely ran out of patience towards the end. It felt exactly how people describe Agile to be in corporate culture. A hacker’s mentality and the “Agile” “manifesto” “principles” are at opposite ends.

I spent a few hours working on the game for our Game Jam. It was a frustrating experience. Looking up solutions online for things you don’t understand doesn’t work the same as it does in programming. There are so many elements, sidebars, buttons - you don’t know where to click!

I did a 24 hour fast today. Dinner to Dinner. The burger from SchwartzBros is amazing! I had the Chicken Special. But damn gee, I ain’t paying £10 for a burger fam!! Not often, at least.

Commented “Fuck Microsoft. All my homies hate Microsoft” on an HN post before deleting it. I can’t understand how people could tolerate a closed ecosystem of software tools, out of all things. I’m realising that not all software people like open source things. Some of them are gatekeepers. People who use .NET or some shit.

Microsoft is a fraud organisation. How can a company straight up copy programming languages (Java -> C#, OCaml -> F#) and market it as something innovative?

I used a vacuum cleaner for the first time yesterday! We always used a broom in India. But a vacuum is so amazing! The floors look and feel much cleaner.

I have turned my phone grayscale and switched the language to Spanish in an attempt to further reduce my phone use. I did this a few years back and it worked very well. I’m 100% certain that I’ll switch it back at some point again because it’s quite inconvenient. For now it’s grayscale.