Culminating Project

Panther Pantry is finished!  Now, I have started my culminating assignment, and there are two.  The first project, dubbed minor, is a research task informing the audience of various devices or issues pertaining to technology and advancements. For this project, I have chosen broadband internet.  But looking on the topic again, I am considering to widen the scope by including the various types of internet access, such as dial-up, Wi-Fi hotspots and LAN.  The second project, called major, is a project consisting of two people.  My partner is Meyappan, and we have chosen to create a java app that runs the game Tic-Tac-Toe.  Yesterday, I couldn't very much work on either projects because I had a science unit test today and I was studying for the test yesterday.  Now that is over, I can dedicate most of my time to my ICS projects, especially when the minor project is due monday.  Oh well, time to get busy!

Working hard on the panther pantry

Tomorrow, the final version of the panther pantry is due.  I just found a minor mistake in the database file, and that is one item does not have a price code.  It was the Alberto Balsam Shampoo on line 114.  So I added a price code of just random numbers.  Now when I compile my program, It does not tokenize the strings on each line.  Ah, so frustrating.  But at least I know what to do know.  I was so close to finishing before discovering that one of the items does not have a price code.  Oh well, as long as I hand in the assignment with no errors, I'm happy!

Misunderstanding the Panther Pantry

I thought I was done the panther pantry assignment. But it turns out that I did it wrong, not completely wrong though, thank god. We were supposed to create an array of tokes without the UPC. I did not do that step, and that is pretty important. Oh well, the long weekend is just around the corner. I got a lot of studying to do this weekend. I am planning to finish both the panther pantry and the node classes this long weekend. Also, I am planning to start studying for the exams. I just filled out the form for virtual school for biology, now I have to hand it in tomorrow. Hope I get registered. Tomorrow we have a party for ICS, which I am really excited about. A party before the long weekend? Awesome.

Final touches on the panther pantry

I am confused for the sorting of the linked list assignment, so I went back to working on my panther pantry class. I created the class, and then another assignment came which detailed to do everything that I already did, plus create an array of objects for the products and alphabetize them. I did create the array of objects, but for only one department. Then, I went on and worked on the node class. Today, I learned that my professor would be collecting the printed copies of the classes, and so I continued to work on it during class. However, I am not done and I couldn't hand it in, so I will hand it in tomorrow. It is a nice break from the linked list class, while requires too much thinking of my behalf. But don't worry, I learned some valuable information today about the linked list class that will hopefully speed up the process of completing the assignment.

Advanced Crew

Wow, I made a lot of progress since the beginning of the course, where I was clueless of Java. Now, I am pleased to say that I am in the Advanced Crew in my class. Our current assignment is sort nodes without using a sorting algorithm. Right now, I know what to do, but I do not know how to code it. While coding, I had many errors, and this was very frustrating. I had so many errors that a grabbed some paper and wrote code on the paper instead of typing it. Well, I know that I'll figure it out some time.

Sorting Objects

Making some good progress with bubbleSort. And now I am on the last assignment, that is bubbleSorting objects. And this leaves me to a question that always leaves me dumbfounded, how do we compare objects? I know that Strings are objects, and for Strings we compare them by their unicode value for their character, but what about an object? It's like saying how to compare two people. Is there a standardized way of doing this? Well, it's just my paradigm of thinking, which I should ditch because it's doing no good.

bubbleSort

I wasn't at school at the day of the bubbleSort lesson, so I am a bit behind. Hopefully, my classmates told what I needed to know for bubbleSort, and I know how it works. But I do not know how to code it. What I am planning to do is to think logically and clearly, and trying to code it myself, without using the internet. This way, my mistakes would be more meaningful, and the accomplishment would be greater. And now, let's go!