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As a class we have worked on displaying a pahkmahn board in full color! Using appropriate characters for each item in the game for example we used @ for the power pellet and used . for the regular pellets and a W for the ghosts the walls are hopefully going to be solid lines using the ACS_BLOCK and pahkmahn is an O. The attributes such as color for the symbols should correspond to the actual color as close as we can get it to the actual Pacman game. The board is going to be a 2 dimensional array for rows and columns that we are going to fill accordingly for walls pellets ghosts and pahkmahn himself!

As a class we wrote a program we are calling Gchat for ghetto chat because of how grossly rigged up it is. This program is the first step towards our goal of making a shared memory pack man game! We each have our own assigned number that we loop through an make a file and write to it which is then written into the shared memory file and printed out. It is still very gross and needs a bit of tweaking.

Yet again for no reason other than I have trouble posting things I have learned because I never know what exactly to say. So here I go, I have done quite a bit this semester! I have explored multiple different Linux operating systems and currently configuring my very own home server! I have Learned about about threading, forking and general concurrency. Concurrency is when your program is broken into sub units that all work together to get a single job done. Threads and forks are similar yet different because with forks we had to have each fork write its values into a text file then read each one back in the correct order. Threads still elude me but I have had some ideas that I have been unable to complete that I believe when implemented correctly they will work and pretty efficient as well! Prime numbers are cool, I really enjoy creating an efficient program and comparing them to friends, healthy competition is great for progress in my opinion.