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Jul 29, 2015

And on the Second Day of a/A, My True Love Gave to Me…

2 projects in one day! Tiring! But at least we managed to get through both the Sudoku checker and the connect-4 game by 6pm. Connect-4 had some not-very-pretty methods, though we refactored the diagonal_winner checker to be manageable. Our straight_line checker may have been a little more convoluted to understand, but I do like that it was operationally less exhaustive, aka more “optimized” (Instead of considering all possible 4-space slices, it only looks at what is actually in the board.)

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Jul 27, 2015

First Day of School

Already the first day over!

Pair programming was actually more tiring than I would have thought, if only because sometimes it’s tough to verbalize why you want to try something out. It’s definitely a pretty positive experience though, especially when you both contribute and finally get the thing working. The triumph is real.

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Jun 23, 2015

The Transformation has Begun…

Now I’m starting to catch myself using mac shortcuts on PCs and wondering why the copy and paste didn’t go through. Ahhhhh! I don’t want to have computer Stockholm Syndrome!