Friday, October 22, 2010

Posters and pressos.

Coming in to Paula's class yesterday I was pretty happy with my poster(s).
Until I saw everyone else's!
That and the technological quantum leap that separated most of the other game reviews from mine on Wednesday has made me realize I need to use next week to SERIOUSLY up-skill. Although until they develop some sort of design sensibility organic transplant, I think my stuff will always be pretty utilitarian (there's that word again).

Puzzles and problems

Well, a certain assignment is in and I , for one, can now think about doing what I like.
In the heat of pushing that thing together I took a break and treated myself to 4 hours coding last Friday. I had a particular functionality I wanted to implement (based on a problem I overheard in class).
Man I had a blast.
It wasn't pretty, it isn't commented, it wasn't elegant and it's not polished yet, but it works.
This leads me to conclude that while I don't like puzzles I love problems (preferably other peoples....no dire consequences).
Oh yeah, in case you hadn't gathered yet, though I'm only a newbie, I LOVE this coding lark.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Can I have my degree now please?

My understanding of the word "semantic" was very reasonably called into question in a comment on another post.
My understanding of the meaning of the study of meaning was questioned.
The possibilty of meta-semantics arises.

1) I've gratuitously and probably erroneously used the prefix"meta-" and he word semantics.
2) I've documentary proof (in another post) that I've been involved in a process of successsful development through process of intense reflection for at least 7  hours.

This raises the possibility that I might already have developed enough to earn my degree.

If, in response to the question posed in title of this post,  I don't  get at least one comment composed of two letters, one of which is "N", I'll know I'm wasting my time writing all this.