======C/C++ Programming Journal====== 3/12/2015 my memory dosn't serve me very well today i remembered i had forgotten to submit in the jurnal again i will preform a brain dumb first a note this is hard for me writing a jurnal is unlike anything i have ever done before. been working on the second incarnation of multiply by 11 and so far i have a decent understanding of creating ints chars and functions using these specific file types, i have gained a decent understanding of do, while, and for loops, i have also learned the if, else if conditional statments. *note* i have noticed a interesting bug with for loop iteration (int i = 0;int var = 5;(for(i = var;i==0;i--){...})) //purpose is to count down //if the for loop the == comparison seems to fail in my programs when decreasing a var to 0. //the fix i have found is the alter the code like so (for(i=var;i>=0;i--){...}) //alternate is (int var=5;int i=var;(while(i >= 0){i--;})) //noted probably better to use != my question why is the == comparison breaking? back on track my current week points are pointers, int array manipulation and type cast their is more i want to mention but cant remember because it 1:22am so im going to sleep now ========================================== Captains log: today is 1/29/15 i realized i was 2 days behind on the journal so i decided to make a quick entry i have never had a journal as i would naturally forget to make an entry so this is not the norm for me. on the first day i used putty to log into lab46 and i wrote a hello world script in C using nano for taking notes. =================================== 2/22/2015 i notice my last post didnt make it so i will take some time to update. on the previus project multiply by 11 i got a little in over my head when i decided to try encapsulating my programs in functions and using for loops before the structure was explained. long story short the program broke in several levels so i went back to the drawing board and removed the functions cleaned up unneeded code and changed my strategy to something i was familliar with switch case, if statements, and the dreaded goto. sence this matt made it a point to tell us to never use goto again lol. --as of now same date im going to begin the new multiply by 11 using arays and if i can i will atempt another function. will update... ====MONTH Day, YEAR==== This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for "Month Day, Year", and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date? * Why was this significant? * What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense? * What challenges are you facing with respect to the course? ======UNIX/Linux Fundamentals Journal====== And so it begins... captains log after several hours of mind boggling inspection dave and i finally managed to see the forest for the trees, and solve the majestic puzzle box. on the plus side i may be able to solve the supper flip with less moves now. sence im not a creative writer im running out of words to say.../not a fan of blogs 2/22/2015 again my messages didnt go threw i recall i had a verry long frustrated post about not being able to figure the 2nd puzzlebox out and being halfway done. i was acctualy two steps away from done i was too tired at the time to notice the mistake i was making the octalascii program was a distraction because the file was in hex onece i realized that i just converted it got the pass and used a key word the teacher forgot to mention lol "sort" i was pretty much done at this point took 5 minutes how upsetting... well that is all as there isn't much to say ====MONTH Day, YEAR==== This is a sample format for a dated entry. Please substitute the actual date for "Month Day, Year", and duplicate the level 4 heading to make additional entries. As an aid, feel free to use the following questions to help you generate content for your entries: * What action or concept of significance, as related to the course, did you experience on this date? * Why was this significant? * What concepts are you dealing with that may not make perfect sense? * What challenges are you facing with respect to the course?