Friday, May 20, 2011
Summer and this week
So summer is around the way, but so far I have already checked out. Until now, I have been able to get away with it because there wasn't anything due. But all of a sudden in this paticular week, I just got flooded with projects and sleepless nights. This is really a bad thing. I'm already summer to start so in the face of all these I am doing a really bad job at keeping up. For example while everyone else is doing a matrix lab or something, I'm still stuck doing the moonlight lab that was due so long ago. I really don't know what I'm going to do to catch up. maybe if I skip a few periods I can actuatly pass this class. Anyways, I'm starting to talk like Holden Caufeild. It's probably because I stayed up all night last night finish an English and Spanish project. The worst thing about it is I still need to another project that was suppose to be due today, but couldn't do it last night because I left it at school. It would just be childish to blame other people for my mistakes so I'm just going to take this like a man. Life will probably throw harder curve balls than this and i'm pretty sure I am better at handling things like this than most people. Also, my sentences are starting to runon.
A reflection of this New xna program
So right now I'm very behind in this class so I can't really say much about it, but from what i've done so far I can tell I like this program alot better than i do JCreator. The transition between Jcreator and XNA is some what easy, but still there are some parts where I still have to integrate into the new settings. For example in the moonlight lab, I was used to just instantiating something like a color all in one like "Color a = new color();" but in XNA, you must name what your instantiating first followed by giving it all the parameters to it. Another new feature that I've noticed is the auto type settings on XNA. I find this very amazing and very useful in my laziness. Auto type is a function of XNA where when I type in a few letters of code, it displays a list of objects and other things that it assumes I would type up, like variable names. With auto type, i don't have to waste that extra minute checking whether or not my variable names were spelled right. Another great auto feature is the error bar. In Jcreator, i had to compile the file first before I found out what syntax or logic error I made. But in XNA, the program tells me possible places of error and allows me to fix them with having to wait and compile the file. Anyways, I think that next years compsci class should start with XNA because it is better than Jcreator.
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