CSDGN Tale of the Lazy Programmer.

Another Year Past

Well tis been another great year. This blog has not been around to long, but still I think I am really starting to get into it. First of all let me wish anyone who ever bothers to read this a merry christmas. I am not to much about being politically correct, I think thats a bit boring to be honest. Its human nature after all. I didn’t get anyone a gift this year, sorry, no new releases of PPSE-DS have been finished. I was pulling my hair out and going crazy because I was so worried I was going to fail this year of college, which would of meant the end of my college career.

In the end I managed to pass all my classes, just barely scraping by  in my Interpersonal Communications class with a C. Otherwise in My Advanced C++ class I got an A-, in Webpage Desgin I got an A-. In Introduction to Psychology I got a B. Which was really surprising for me, I worked fairly hard for the tests in that class but the paper I wrote I feel I didn’t do very well at all on.

The C++ and the Webpage design I was fairly sure I was going to be alright in, I have done C since the times of the ancient Dinosaurs called MUDs. C++ I had only done in bits and pieces, to say I learned nothing from the class would be a bold face lie. I learned many things from this class, but I already had the heart of a programmer long before it, all I got was new tricks and a better understanding of how all the fun things in C++ work (classes, templates, and so on).

Unless you wish me to go on and make a informative article on K-D Trees or K-Type Clustering there is not much of a present I can give to everyone/anyone who reads my blog. But now that I have my classes out of the way I can start to get refocused on some of my hobbies, which should make a large number of people happy. Since I know everyone has been waiting a very long time for another release of PPSE-DS.

To be completely honest I have not been entirely slacking on it, and school is not a good enough excuse to do absolutely no work. I have redesigned the entirety of the Library PokeLib, so that it is now a proper library. I have rebuilt the graphics engine for PPSE-DS, but I am still having problems with getting true on demand rendering to work. I have a fairly primitive widget library built, explicitly for the use in PPSE-DS, most others I could use instead have a complex underlaying structure I would need to import or could never hope to support what I wished to do with it. PPSE-DS is perhaps the most complex application I have ever written, in pure amount of code written anyway, save for perhaps a few old web comic management systems. So I am not about to just give up on it…

I have talked to ant the maker of the Woopsi library for DS about many things, his library is very good, however it doesn’t really have the flair I want for my application. Also he is in the midst of rebuilding it, and it does not support Japanese fonts, which are a fairly large requirement for me.

Speaking of Japanese, it still blows my mind I can read Hiragana now, its taking some time to sink it, sort of surreal.

Anyway, thank you for reading!