work done today:

step 1: streamline old code (750 lines down to 500)
step 2: add/modify old code
step 3: throw computer against wall (i have a laptop at work, so this is entirely possible)
step 4: frantically put the computer back together before boss finds out
step 5: repeat steps 2-4 as necessary

finished product: 1200 lines of code

yup… i went from 750 lines… to 500… to 1200

weird thing is i’m not a comp sci major, so that makes me wonder

For those of you that don’t know… I’m majoring in Ocean and Aerospace Engineering (two separate things)
not computer science

The programming skills that i do have make things much easier though, so i’m glad i’ve learned what i’ve learned.

Example:

Last summer while working for the Navy I was assigned the task of:
running a program
inputing some numbers into said program
wait a 2 minutes for the computer to spit out the answers (4 numbers)
and repeat…. about a thousand times… i dont remember but it was a lot

so what’d i do?

i took their program, and rewrote it to do all of the answers at once (the input numbers were always known cause they aren’t affected by the outputs…)

so running my new program… i complete a task that would have taken 5 days… and finish it in 1
(…well technically two cause it took me a day to understand the program and reprogram it…)

RANDOM SHOUT-OUT TO CINDY MARTIN: How ya doin hun? when do you head out for school?

…some of you may be wondering… “Matt, what happened to The Adventures of Dirk Stanton last night… or tonight for that matter?”

well i won’t be writing an episode every night. I’m a busy guy…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

well, there is some truth to that

i’ve been preparing for school (and playing video games) and that takes up a lot of my time…

so here’s my list of tasks for tomorrow, assuming i don’t get side-tracked by friends or something:

1. Wake up
2. Goto Work (til 4)
3. Clean the house before the parents get home
4. Wash the dishes
5. Take out the trash
6. Make the Detailed notes for the RHF budget (which i think i can semi-automate using macros and whatnot)
7. Figure out if my friends down here are still alive… haven’t heard from them in a while
8. Make t-shirt designs for RHF (the actual graphics… which i said i was gonna do tonight, but that didnt happen)
9. Sleep (regrettably optional)

see ya tomorrow… probably not

~Martz

68… work and explanation