I think I totally forgot I had this blog until this evening. Let me be brief and just say that after many years, it is nice to finally have my education out of the way (at least, as much as I can handle for the time being). It’s been quite a journey. Now, off to act like a professional!
Category Archives: School
Spring Semester Over, At Last
I turned the heat down this semester by only taking two classes. It turns out that was the right call, since those two classes ended up taking almost all of my spare time. Interactive Machinima, a relatively new course to the Computer Science program, had us creating short films using Half-Life 2 and the Source engine. Some of the results were really extraordinary, and many of the finished films are viewable online.
Software Practice II was a continuation of last semester’s course where we learn the principles of software engineering and taking ideas through the design process. We used C# and XNA Game Studio to build games that were eventually deployed on the Xbox 360, which was pretty cool, all things considered. It’s not every day that one can say that he got his custom code running on a modern and very content-restricted platform. For all the flak that Microsoft gets, they got XNA right and it was a lot of fun (and a lot of work).
I got only four and a half hours of sleep last night in preparation for our live game demonstration this morning, and I am awfully tired. Summer, here we come!
Short Work Week
I’m totally excited for the short work week this week, thanks to Thanksgiving.
Except, I have a midterm tomorrow in my CS class which will probably be a royal pain, like the last one.
At the university, at last
After 18 months as a university employee, I finally have set foot inside a university classroom. It’s definitely a different vibe being out and about with the peasants, so to speak 🙂
So far it hasn’t been too different than my experiences at the community college, except for the (much) larger class sizes. It looks like we’ll be learning some nifty stuff in Software Practice as well, such as creating a Half-Life 2 mod. I definitely need to get with the program as far as C++ goes, since my experience using the language has been rather limited up to this point.
It’s Over
As of last night around 7:30 PM, I finished my associates degree in Computer Science. It won’t be official until grades are in and I have that piece of paper in my hand, but it’s nice to have that out of the way.
Next stop, University! 😀
Update: Crap, missed the opportunity to sell back my Discrete Math textbook 🙁
Second update: I got an A- in Discrete Structures! *raise the roof*