Sunday, February 29, 2004

Finished re-submitting the Data Structures assignment and e-mailing the Prof. to re-evaluate the assignment. I think I have a good case for 3 more marks.



Went to ECY place for most of the day. Wasn't feeling to good so I left early ~@9:30pm.

Saturday, February 28, 2004

Spent the entire day working on the TML assignment. There was three things to do: 1) Fix the, 'parsing' file bug, 2) JavaDoc's and testing it under Borland's IDE. I thought the bug with parsing the file (the need to have a blank line at the beginning) was going to take a long time to find -- it took minutes to fix. The JavaDocs took a long time - several hours and the testing under Borland's IDE went really smoothly. The solution for their tool is have every class in a seperate file.



Finished the assignment at: ~@11:40pm.



Waited until just after 12:00 midnight to see if ECY would phone. Never heard but not important I was dead tired from the previous 3 nights and the long week.



Now my March break starts!!!

Friday, February 27, 2004

Had to drop off PetiteP's glasses at his Mother place today before 11:00am. Decided that the best time was before 9:00am. Phoned ahead but no reponse, decided to go anyway. Was lucky just caught her openning up ~@9:00am. Left after a quick short conversation and head to school for 9:30am.



Was going to do a, 'drop' of the assignment today, but I felt that if a dropped a version of the assignment it just wasn't ready. Plus I needed to convert it to 'Borlands' Java and didn't want to take the time to do this before I was finished.



I had a lot to finish at school today. Got back the Data Structures assignment. Gave it back to the Prof in the same class to re-evaluate. Did the Lab I missed earlier in the week. Was happy to get this out of the way, as I was planning on doing this at school Sat. night @9:00pm, which is not a good plan.



Well got it out of the way, but then the Database course's lab today was new and therefore I would not have the time to finish the 'client' application. As it turns out the lab was short 'transaction' and I was able to finish the other lab after then start the Java Client for the database. Had some problems connecting to the database and it turned out to be an incorrect CLASSPATH to the Postgress driver. Thank God the Prof helped me find this cause I would have never found it.



PetiteP phoned me at 6:20pm while I was still working on the assignment to go buy glasses at the Grande Mall. I arranged for 7:20pm.



I arrived ~@7:23pm. Not too bad. We went to the mall with his Mother. He bought a PS2 game (Grand Theft Auto] while we were there.



Returned home ~@10:20pm so work on the assignment.



Stay up to 12:00pm working on the assignment.

Thursday, February 26, 2004

For the Adv java assignment there was a, 'tutorial' held @4:00pm. Went into town before to search for shoes and get some gas. Visited EconoSport but didn't dind what I wanted.



The tutorial was in formal and since other students were not asking questions I took the opportunity to ask my questions. Verified that I have been doing things right and now I just need to finish it.



Up late again working on the TML assignment.

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Wrote the Adv. Java Class exam. Hard to tell how it went. There was 18 question that ranged to various topics we covered. In fact each question was proceded with the class # when we covered the topic.



All exams need to be rushed thru since there's no time to stop and think.



The last question regarding CASTing and Exception handling was interesting. I had studied the CASTing examples a lot in preparation but didn't really have enought time to think about this problem. Hope I did OK.



Now have 2 days to finish the Adv Java TML (Tiny Machine Language) assignment. It's a cool assignment. Create a mini machine language interpreter that is easily modifiable to allow future commands without changing the executor.



Therefore I was up late 2:00am doing the assignment.

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

DataStructures exam today. Changed the room for writing the test. The exam was long.



Another long night up studying for tomorrow's Adv Java Class. Lot's of notes to review.



Decided that it's best to 'skip' the CSC Lab before the class, so I can have an extra 3 hours of studying.

Monday, February 23, 2004

Studied for CSC204. Lot's of information here. We know she going to ask about postfix and prefix stuff and running time of various sorting techniques.