Holidays~ Working holidays… 20 April 2009

Just finished my Digital Electronics Design test. Yeah! Next week is off!

So what am I going to do during the holidays? More work! Physics, engineering case report and programming assignments are begging for attention, though they can be handed in at the end of semester. Better start now so I can relax early. Of course there are games that need to be finished and Joseph needs to be bugged just for fun.

Programming is my favourite subject so far and also my new interest. I used to loathe it because the lecturer wasn’t adept at teaching us (sometimes being too nerdish isn’t a good thing). But once I get the hang of it by trial and error it’s actually quite interesting. I still marveled at how I wrote 400 lines of code by myself for an assignment, skipping quite a few classes along the way. Producing algorithms and optimizing them are so stressfully addictive.

Right now I’m stuck with C++, an entirely foreign programming language. My assignment this time is to make a Rubik’s Cube game that can solve the puzzle by itself. This is so big a leap from the last programming assignment! That means I’m actually going to device an AI system, literally!

Just completed the file I/O part of the programme. 95% more to be done. Cheers!