Week 6

As far as OOP goes this week has been pretty uneventful for me. I have yet to take the test because I was out of town for an interview with Expedia.com, which I think went pretty well but I'll have to wait till the end of the week to get the results back. Bellevue was cool, but I'd rather be in Austin this Summer, so I'm going to continue my search for an internship. 

Week 5

The voting project was due this week and the whole time I kept thinking, "I should've worked with a partner." It would've definitely made things easier. That said, I dropped the ball on this project, I doubt I got a good grade because I started on the project late and turned it in a day late and it timed out on UVa. I totally underestimated this project, my thinking was that this would've been easy in java, but my lack of familiarity with C++ slowed me down much more than I thought it would.

And now for the good news, I think I did really well on my probability test, I got a good grade on my algorithms test, and I've got an interview in Seattle with Expedia this Friday for a summer internship. Also, I've been studying at the GDC every day for the past week, if you haven't been there yet, that building freaking rules. 

Week 3

Hey classmates! Just watched the super bowl and I'm pretty pumped the Ravens won...

So I've been working on this Collatz on my home computer, but as I was nearing the end of the project I just decided to transfer to the linux machines on campus. It's way easier because valgrind and doxygen are already installed on those machines.

Also, I thought I'd tip you guys off to this sweet diff GUI utility that comes with OSX, just type "opendiff" and the two files after that on the command line and it pulls up a super useful graphical version of diff. 

Week 2

Hello  again! So It's the second week of class, and things are going smoothly. I've been trying to get my version of GCC up and running to 4.7 in order to get my code to compile given the paramaters that are in RunCollatz.c++ This has proven to be a big headache as my macports install was really messed up and required me to completely uninstall macports and reinstall it again.

Other classes I'm taking this semester are: CS378 - Algorithms and Complexity and SSC321 - Probability and Statistics. If you're in any of those classes and want to form a study group send me a message/leave a comment!

Week 1

Hello readers! To start this blog off I'll introduce myself. I'm Rohan, CS student at UT taking Object Oriented Programming with Professor Downing. In this class we will learn OOP using C++.

So far we have been instructed to write a simple program that iterates through cycles of the Collatz Conjecture. I haven't started it yet, but it seems pretty easy. My goals for this semester are to do some actual coding and to put all the theory I've learned into practice, so I'm pretty excited!