9/29/09

Today I tried to get linux working on this laptop properly so that then we will know what to do when we only have linux on here so that we won't get stuck without anything if we try to install a driver and it screws up like it did today. Also I did tom's tester file and fixed one thing that was broken with my LinkedList and now it works perfectly. I think.

9/25/09

Today I started out by shredding some hot licks.
Then you took away the power. Give me the people and free my soul i wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll and drift away won't you takem e a wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Then I finished my LinkedList so that if they try to delete the last node in the list, it points to null so it doesn't crash. Tom is supposed to be making a test program for my linkedlist but I don't know if that is getting done. Then I looked at some blog posts.

9/23/09

I forgot to make a blog for yesterday but this is for 9/23/09. Basically I spent the whole class making the LinkedList but it actually went really well because I actually understand how it works instead of just writing down whatever somebody else has and hoping that it works. I have to just write a few cases next class for if someone is trying to remove the first node or something and then it will be done.

Tom was my realtime compiler and would immediately yell in my ear as soon as I made one little mistake so it worked out well.

9/21/09

Tom taught me LinkedLists and i'm almost done making my own. It's good. Some guy is playing facebook games on your computer.

9/17/09

Yesterday after school you made me fill out those project things so that can probably count for something. Today I just read that book and tried to figure out how to actually change mySQL via PHP but it just taught me the basics of how to use mySQL via the random command prompt that you can use to change it, but I don't want to do that anyway so it didn't help me very much. I think I will start learning by using the site that Conner said to use because the book is becoming less and less of help. I did learn a lot about how mySQL actually works though.

9/15/09

Last night I studied handling HTML forms with PHP documents and today i tested everything out and it turns out that I can do it pretty well. Then I learned if statements so I could display an error message if parts of the form are empty and stuff like that. Then I skimmed over arrays and loops, and they both don't seem too hard. I think I will have to learn a lot more at home so that I can get on the level where I can actually help with the ASB program. But today I actually helped fix the password field when you log in. Now it actually displays dots instead of showing everyone what your password is.

9/11/09

Today you told me to fill out an independent project sheet so I did and I think I put all the steps that I would need to take down there. I remember when Tom was helping me out with the program last year, he said that I should use hashmaps because what I was doing with regular variables was just a harder way to do hashmaps. So I kind of learned hashmaps and was trying to figure out why I actually needed to fit them in my program but I forgot why. I think I am going to need some help remembering java so I think I will get Conner's help with this project.

9/09/09 yay

Today I cracked open the PHP book and learned everything in chapter 1. I learned that PHP isn't actually very hard to learn, it's mostly built like java. I learned things like printing things out, comments, all the different kinds of variables, concatenating, and quotation marks. I made a program to test them all out and I understand them pretty well. I will try to learn more from the book at home if I can and then maybe I will be almost caught up.

09/04/09

Today I went on the internet to learn PHP because I would rather work on the school project than try to get back into my confusing program. So I went on the internet to learn PHP, but it said that I should learn HTML, so I started learning HTML. HTML is basically a dumb language that you don't need to know how to do anything in it until you actually want to do that thing, in which case you just look up said thing and copypaste.
Then it said I should learn javascript first, but I only looked into that a little bit since it looked pretty much like HTML. Then Brendan helped me with the PHP server. Now I know kind of the basics of PHP, maybe. I started my own form on the database and I am going to try to to put data on the form using PHP just for fun, but you will probably make me move all my stuff since the server is really freaking sensitive.
I make long blog posts, so you should give me an A.

9/02/09

Today I got all of my stuff set up and remembered how to get JCreator to work. I worked with Tom and Conner to get our communications set up so we should be OK.
Then I looked at that powerpoint to see what I have to do to set up this blog, then I set it up. Then I started looking over the notes that Tom sent me so that I can understand how to make my Silent Hill but I didn't understand it so I asked Tom for help but he was too busy setting up communications material. I will probably do better next class.

Ideas for first independent project

Hwello!

These keyboards are hard to type on so I named by blog Hwello instead of hello. Haldo!