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And there was much rejoicing.
I'm so freaking overjoyed, albeit in a tired, subdued yay sort of way. After several weeks of hours of work intersperced with days of slacking, I've finally finished my compression program. I've been putting off the actual transferring of the strings of binary numbers into actual binary as it seemed like it would be rather hard, but I dashed out the code for it in notepad in like 15-20 minutes last night, and after a few tweaks, it worked perfectly. After I figured out what was causing some odd binary strings anyway. Man, it's rather difficult to check a file in binary to see if you've done it right or not. Thank goodness for the Dos debug and dump commands. Now all I have to do is work on the decompress program, which I actually think may be quite a bit harder. It's easy enough outputting as many binary bits as one needs, but with variable length binary paths, figuring out which is which, and when to stop, that's rather a bit more difficult.
Well, I shouldn't say that's all I have to do. That's all I have to do for that assignment. I still have like two other programs for that class alone to do. Which is really rather frightening, but I'm trying not to think about it. That or the XML assignment for my other CS. Or the finals next week... Thank goodness two of them are not cumulative.
Man, just writing all of this is depressing. :P
I don't think I mentioned this before, but I got two tests back yesterday. My philosophy test which I took like two weeks ago was an 80%, but I was so unsure of what to do on that one that I'm just glad I did that well. Although the fact that we only have three tests in that class to determine our overall grade is rather scary. Unless I seriously bomb the last test, it looks like a B in that class. Which is funny, because I got a B in my Mind class, but that one made more sense, and I worked my ass off for that class. I also got back my math test, which was a depressing 74%. On the plus side, it was like 7 points higher than the class average, so that was plus. I think the grades ranged from a 99 to like a 30, so in retrospect a 74 isn't bad. Plus, he does allow us to get a third of our points back for test corrections, although we have to get every single correction correct to get any points back at all, so screwing even one up is a waste of effort.
I have the urge to sing an old sea chantey for some reason, but I know of none, so perhaps I shall sing Oh My Darling Clementine. I was surprised at how many more verses it had than I thought. But my deep singing voice works quite well for it...
I'm so freaking overjoyed, albeit in a tired, subdued yay sort of way. After several weeks of hours of work intersperced with days of slacking, I've finally finished my compression program. I've been putting off the actual transferring of the strings of binary numbers into actual binary as it seemed like it would be rather hard, but I dashed out the code for it in notepad in like 15-20 minutes last night, and after a few tweaks, it worked perfectly. After I figured out what was causing some odd binary strings anyway. Man, it's rather difficult to check a file in binary to see if you've done it right or not. Thank goodness for the Dos debug and dump commands. Now all I have to do is work on the decompress program, which I actually think may be quite a bit harder. It's easy enough outputting as many binary bits as one needs, but with variable length binary paths, figuring out which is which, and when to stop, that's rather a bit more difficult.
Well, I shouldn't say that's all I have to do. That's all I have to do for that assignment. I still have like two other programs for that class alone to do. Which is really rather frightening, but I'm trying not to think about it. That or the XML assignment for my other CS. Or the finals next week... Thank goodness two of them are not cumulative.
Man, just writing all of this is depressing. :P
I don't think I mentioned this before, but I got two tests back yesterday. My philosophy test which I took like two weeks ago was an 80%, but I was so unsure of what to do on that one that I'm just glad I did that well. Although the fact that we only have three tests in that class to determine our overall grade is rather scary. Unless I seriously bomb the last test, it looks like a B in that class. Which is funny, because I got a B in my Mind class, but that one made more sense, and I worked my ass off for that class. I also got back my math test, which was a depressing 74%. On the plus side, it was like 7 points higher than the class average, so that was plus. I think the grades ranged from a 99 to like a 30, so in retrospect a 74 isn't bad. Plus, he does allow us to get a third of our points back for test corrections, although we have to get every single correction correct to get any points back at all, so screwing even one up is a waste of effort.
I have the urge to sing an old sea chantey for some reason, but I know of none, so perhaps I shall sing Oh My Darling Clementine. I was surprised at how many more verses it had than I thought. But my deep singing voice works quite well for it...
