lil'viking

I was starting the post for assignment six and saw I didn’t do a post for assignment five. It has been then two weeks since the posting for class. But there wasn’t really anything to post about for five. The assignment was completed in class and then I created the assignment link on the construction page.

Assignment 6 was fairly easy also, since we did most of it in class. There were two thing that took some time and thought; one was just deciding what to add for data and the other was getting the database built for the duplicate site. That it turns out was little more tricky since it is my second site hosted with dreamhost the steps were a little different from their wiki. I had already set up a wordpress site with their one step installation process. That takes the making, naming, and creating password for the database into automatic land. So when I tried to set up the new one for the linebackstudio site I couldn’t create a password. But I did find out where the automatic passwords are stored in the dreamhost web panel. And I got it all to work. We will see if it continues to work in the future. Oh, the other thing was it took me about a half hour to figure out that we were given the code to make the data in database appear on a web page and it get all the parts of data to correctly show up without an error message. Once I worked out the details on zephir it was then just making those same changes for the other site.

Well it is official I am spending more time on my C# class than anything else this quarter.   This last assignment is diving me to constant distraction.  It is to get the computer to pick a random number between 1 and 10. And then have a person guess the number with the computer giving higher or lower responses or ‘you have guessed the correct number.  I got it to do that but I can’t figure out how to get the program to keep receiving input if you pick an incorrect number.  Right now it just goes away once it tells you that you need to pick again.  I have tried to put what I did nested in a loop,  nested a new loop in the while loop I made. I have tried creating new variables and using variables that are already made.  I have also used the Console.ReadLine every where I can conceive of to no luck. Tell me can a return handle parameters?(my newest idea … have not tried it out yet) Yes to constant distraction.

I just got done with doing the reCAPTCHA contact page for class.  The changing of the code and the doing it was not  as hard as I had made it out to be.  But let me tell you reading that the class got banned in South America was very intimidating to get started.  I set it all up; added the keys,  set up the email, forwarded the email to an email box I look at regularly.  Then I set the value to TRUE(well first I set it to ‘true’– that didn’t work) and got my email.  It is sitting in my box.   Then because South America is still intimidating me I set the value back to FALSE.  So that is why the reply is on the page now instead of being sent out as an email.  I wanted to make sure when we go over it in class on Monday that I did indeed do it right before it is live so to speak. Now about the duplicate site contact page, it is made and up.  I did not yet sign up to get keys for it so no reCAPTACHA box there yet.  I wanted to wait to make sure I did in fact know how to do it before I set up the keys for my site.

Also it dawned on me that I had not been keeping up the duplicate site.  It was still just like it was in assignment one. It is all updated now including the sandbox. I added a link to the site on the construction page. Now it can be checked on that I am updating it also.  Plus this week I reread all the lessons again.  That was very good for me I and I think I will keep doing that until I don’t keep getting information out of them. I mean really at some point I hope that I will understand everything in them  forwards and backwards.

That is where I spent the most time this week was reading about 2.75 hours.

Next was cleaning up the documentation, fixing the includes for template.php, and getting the duplicate site back in order — 1.25 hours.

And Assignment 4 was about .75 hours broke up into a lot of little starts and stops.

UPDATE: Once we went over it in class, changed the contact page back to TRUE on zephir.  Still haven’t gotten to signing up -  to get the keys for the duplicate site.