This only took me about an hour to finish. That was because I was making it too hard. Once I got to the non showing errors (misspelled variable names) I started looking at the logic of the if statement. Thinking that was what was wrong and going though trying to solve it. And then I saw the variable names were spelled different ….. dohh! Just as Bill and Portia have said look to the easy and obvious first and then go on to the harder things to fix.
Upkeep
Well I haven’t been very good at the daily posting have I….. But try to be easy with me this quarter my classes will keep me very busy. The angst of the last couple of days is that I need to figure out how to do my C# homework at home and not just on the window machines at school. I thought I had it figured out when I learned that I can check out Microsoft software at school. So all I had to do was get a student copy of Parallels and then I can check out windows 7 and visual studio and all is good. ahhh no….. the copy of windows 7 that I can get is an upgrade and that doesn’t work with either companies EULA. But I think I have it figured out just a lot more installing.  I can get a full copy windows XP and then install visual studio express which is all I need for C#. I think, I hope, crossing my fingers.
Looking over this it is not really a blog post so much as a school post. Oh well will try again to write a post not about school.
Assignment 2 post for ITC280
Well I think I have everything done for assignment two. This took me way too long to carry out, not the real working — coding and image making — but the getting started. The actual time was 2 and half hours to get up and done. To start with I was not really wanting to start the assignment because I didn’t really get what the assignment was going to eventually get used as. That is hard for me when designing something. I need a little something to go by. In the end I just reused the site I made last quarter for Photoshop class and change the css a bit. I also made a quick logo/image to go with it. Plus I cleaned up Assignment One making it a google doc now. It is all updated on the profile page and the google doc has all the links that it needs and is working.
It will be an interesting quarter taking both C# and the PHP classes. I see already that I need to somehow read and do the different assignments on different days or something. This weekend I read both together and did very poorly on the C# test. This is going to have to change. Also it doesn’t help that I am working on a Mac, not so much for PHP but for the C#. I installed mono but can’t figure out how to do anything like f5 in the program. I can do the examples but not know if they are error free and run. So I am going to get parallels and win7 and that I am sure will help. So from now on the first part of the week is for php and the last is for C#. I’ll see how that goes.
As I read over this I see that a lot of it is about the C# and not PHP. I hope that is alright for that was my biggest problem this week.
First Post for ITC 280
This is the first post for my 280 class. I have spent a good part of the day trying to get it all to work for assignment one. I had the domain already but needed to host it. So this morning I set up the hosting. Part of Dreamhost’s set up is to use Google apps. as part of the domain. I needed to set up a cname record. I followed the instructions and the wizard said it went though and worked. I saw that and went great—- but then could not get it to work. It kept telling me:
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What is this? Well I have found out that there are accounts and apps. and the dreamhost button sets you up for apps that needs a verification and then found a screen that says this site is in process. That is what the cname record was for, duh. So I will try to make the docs in a bit.
Now about the blog I was going to use this site that has my wordpress blog already set up but if you would like me to create a new one in blogger I will do it with no issue. A personal blog might not be the best for this class. However to keep things easy for both of us I was always going to make the ITC 280 class entries sticky so that they will appear first on the blog and keep ITC 280 in the title.
For the new year…..
I am going to try this blog idea. So I am going to try to post somewhat daily. This somewhat scares me as I am sure I don’t have that much to write about. Then again to be honest one of my classes this quarter is requiring a blog post for once a week. So that will keep me going.
Speaking of classes this quarter I haven’t decided but I may be in for a rough time of it. I am taking an intro to databases, intro to programing dealing with c# , the class that wants a blog post– itc 280 which is a combination of web databases and php, and to get a certification requirement out-of-the-way a 1 credit class of beginning programing – javascript. The javascript is just review since I have taken the full quarter class already.  I figure any extra programing lectures are going to help me. The rest is a lot of programing languages is learn. Totally alien to what I have done in past. But you know what, it is exciting and fun. For years I have looked at this “the under the hood part” and have wanted to know more. So I suppose now I should get to my homework a little javascript, a lot of reading and a couple of take home tests.