9am to 10:10am

On this day I started to read chapter 1 of the book and took a look at some of the projects at the end

9am - 10:10 On this day and time I worked on building the basic Logic gates for Joe, AND, OR, NOT I am having trouble with some of the syntax and it doesnt seem like I have all the elements of the truth table covered for the AND and OR

2pm - 4pm On this day and time I reread chapter 1 in the book for reunderstanding of whats going on. I also tried to set up the programs so I could try yo build the gates but was unsuccessful in doing so. I will go in wednesday to see if we can set it up.

9 - 1010 On this day in time I went into class for help with setting up the program and upon doing this I realized that I only had to click on the .bat file to open up the program, I then tried to implement some of the logic gates in the program but was very unsuccessful on doing so. I reeached out for some help but noone else was working with the book.

9 - 1010

On this day and time I worked on trying to implement the logic gates once again. I was able to find one of the gates in the book fully done and was hoping that it would shed some light on the others, but it did not. I will continue to read the book but will just work on Joes for the implementation.

4pm - 6pm

I realized that I did not write the gates in C fully. I was getting mixed up with C and VB syntax, so I had to correct them to C syntax. I build the logic librabry with the gates and will go in for a little help to test them.

1pm - 3pmon this date and time I seeked out help in testing my gates with programs written. the gates are now successful

9am -1010 am On this date and time I worked on making my xor gate. I was successful in making it in the library file but am having trouble testing it.

2pm - 5pm

on this date and time I was working on building my halfsum, halfcarry, fullsum and fullcarry. I was successful in the lib file but still unsuccessful on getting things to work in a program

9am - 1010

on this date and time I worked on making a multiplexer in the lib file, was successful on that but need to go in to Joe on help building a program to test all of these functions. will go in tuesday or wednesday to do so

6pm -9pm

on this day I worked on completing my multiAND and multiOR gates, had to learn the va libraries which was a complete pain and was unable to get it completely working.

2pm - 4pm

met up with Joe and we worked on finishing my mutiAND and OR gates, I have a better understanding of the library now and slowly progressing the concept of C

8am to 10am

worked on my multiinput multiplexer and am having a rough time getting it to woirk, I think my code is missing some things, will go inyo tutor ASAP to get some help with this

went in to get help with andrew from 1 - 2 and he assisted me with completing an RS Nand latch and timed RS nand latch

2 - 4

on this day I went in with joe and we made an RS latch using classes. I did this because I was having trouble with the outputs with the way that andrew had showed me. He showed me building truth tables

5 - 7 pm

On this day I built a timed rs latch using a class

5pm - 7pm

on this day I worked on an RSflipflop, I was having a good deal of trouble with the input part of the scope. I cant seem to figure out how to put the 2 clocked latches together. going in for help tomorrow with joe

230 - 4

on this day I went into Joe with the RSflipflop and I was actually closer than I thought with the inputs, I just wasnt getting the parameters correct for the 2 latches. we also started on the JKflipflop

2-4

working on the JK flip flop and having some problems with the logic of the final outputs being used as inputs to the circuit. gonna go in with joe for extra help.

2-4

on this day I went in with joe and we worked on and completed the JK flip flop.

9-12

on this day I worked on a D flipflop and am almost done with it, just having some syntax on the inputs function within the class.

1-4

on this day I finished my D flipflop and now am working on a counter, this is a very interesting circuit but very tedious to watch joe test this with a marker on his dry erase board, tangents are so god damn ridiculous haha!!

1-4

on this day I worked on building a serial to parallel register, this was actually a really simple circuit, it took a little bit to figure this out but once I saw a good diagram it was just multiple d FlipFlops all feeding their outputs into the input of the next

1-4

on this day I worked on the parallel to serial register, it took me a couple of hours to realize that the input to the circuit was just a multiplexer. will have this finished soon

2 - 4

on this day I went in to joe, I was having problems with the register, it just was not working correctly and I realized along with joe of course that I was forgetting the clock in the circuit, we fixed it up and it was working correctly!!!

1-5

on this day I worked on my RSLatch and which side of the latch the circuit evaluated first and when, 16 if and else statements later and it was done, now on to the braces and the code for the evaluation.

Oh my god I am going to pull my hair out!! I am getting errors about braces and when I put one in the error just moves to another place. I give up for now!

on this day I finished the RSLatch, but when I run it I am getting and output that is noteven close to what I expect, I am going into joe for help asap

11am to 2 pm

On this day I set up a BSD desktop with Tom Hakes, see WIKI

11am to 2pm on this day I went in for assistance with tom on trying to complete the multiseat linux project. we are having trouble with configuring the X files that are needed to complete this project, by default it does see the extra keyboard and mouse but it does not treat them as a separate entity, we shut down for the day at 2 and will pick back up at a later date.

11am to 2pm

On this day we tried to pick up where we left off with the multiseat project. after about an hour we finally realized that we were using a tutorial that needed the computer to have at least 2 video cards ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! we went back to the drawing board and tried to find another tutorial and after a while we finally found one and was on our way. we configured what it said to do but it still would not work for us, might have to scrap this project and try another one and come back later….

1130 - 2pm

worked with tom on creating a virtual system, updated package repository and we made me a superuser for the system. Tom also taught me how to remote into the system using ssh. we then installed the xen packages needed for the system.

1130 - 2pm

On this day I continued to set up the vitual system. I changed some of the script in the file xend-config.sxp. then checked the kernel to make sure it was the proper one. then tried to crete a domain for the machine. I was getting an error. could not find ssh key rsa.pub. tried to remedy but could not.

1130 - 2pm

on this day I tried to fix the problem I was having last time but was unsuccessful. I then reformatted the machine and started over

1pm - 230pm

on this day I did a vm server install, it was actually pretty easy when I followed the tutorial done by an ex-student, was able to finish it

1-230

on this day I started the creating virtual machine project. I was having some problems with some of the config files so I had you help me with them. We were unable to finish the project but will be shortly.

9-10am

on this day we were still messing with the config files for the virtual machine. we are close to finished

110 - 230

on this day I worked on the samba server

2 - 4

on this day I finished the samba server!!!!!!!!

1130am to 2pm

On this day I went in to see tom and we started to test the computers around the lair, we started with the ones in the very back left corner and stared checking things like video card present, if it had ram and how much, if it was in use, if it booted up, the model number and we have been numbering them all, project is unfinished up to this point but will pick it back up and hopefully finish by the end of the semester

1130 - 2

On this day tom and I tried to set up cygwin on my computer in order to install everything needed for the SDL tutorials. We were unsuccessful in doing so but will enter all that was done with the project

1130 - 2

On this day tom and I started to set up virtual box and debian on my personal laptop. we are making good headway with this!

1130 - 2

On this day tom and I continued to set up virtualbox and debian on my system. it is going pretty smoothly but we are unable to mount my flash drive to the system. going to get help with arch mage matt!!

1 - 330 pm

On this day I brought in my laptop and with the help of the archmage matt we were able to successfully install virtualbox and debian. Still was not able to mount my flash drive so I had to clone all of my repositories and I was able to get started on installing the SDL libraries which was successful

9 - 1015 am

on this day I went back to the inventory project

9 - 1030

on this day I worked on the inventory project

9am - 1030 on this day I worked on the inventory project

on this day I did a little more of the inventory project

1-5

on this day I worked on the socket for the windows side

on this day I worked I finished the socket for the windows server

on this day I started and completed hacking into a Linux computer!!!!! it was fun hahaha

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1 - 215

on this day we went over what was expected in class and started on the SDL tutorials to make the pong game. pretty excited about the course and hope I am successful!!

1 - 215

on this day I worked on the second tutorial on the lazy foo website, this was blitting the surface, I am already getting a good understanding of the concept and I am also noticing that that some of the code is the same so I am guessing that these initialize some of the variables and will be soing this throughout the course.

1 - 215

on this day I spent a good deal on lesson 3 of the lazy foo tutorials which is trying to install the extended libraries. At the end of the class I asked you for assistance and then you told me that it was already installed haha, maybe I should have asked to begin with.

on this day I worked on the 4th lesson of tutorials. this was event driven programming. it is confirmed to me that the set up is pretty much the same for all of these tutorials. this was actually a very interesting lesson. I learned quite a bit about events and handles and poll events and am very curious to see how these will be implemented in the pong program.

1 - 4

on this day I worked on lesson 5 which is color keying. I found it very cool that you can put your own images on the screen and manipulate the color schemes. I played around quite a bit with this and found some pretty cool things that you can do with these.

1 - 215

on this day I worked on the 6th lesson for the SDL tutorials. This was clip blitting and sprite sheets. this tutorial helped me with the coordinance so I am hoping this will help with the movement of the paddles and the ball but only time will tell haha.

6 - 8

I continued to work on the same tutorial as earlier and really want to try to drive home each of the tutorials so when it comes time to build the game, there should be little to no problem but I hear and read that collision detection is a beeeeeaaaaaaaaaatccccccchhhhhhh haha!

10am - 12

on this day I learned about true type fonts with tutorial 7 of the SDL tutorials.

on this day I worked on the key presses tutorial for the lazy foo productions, it was pretty straight forward and understood it all

12 - 6 pm

on this day I worked on tutorial 9 and 10, the mouse events part seemed a little unnecessary for what we are doing, but it was cool to know lol. the key states were very important though :)

on this day I worked on the tutorial playing sounds. I am going to kind of put this on the back burner and try to get it working before even attempting to put any sound to it at the moment

12 - 5

on this day I worked on timing and advanced timers. I must have went over it a thousand times and it Is pretty confusing to me!

1-4

on this day I worked on the framerate tutorials little confusing but seems to go along with the timer so I think I can make this work but only time will tell!

1 - 5

on this day I worked on the motion tutorial. I actually understood this pretty well, it dealt a lot with the collision detection on the edge of the screen and set up the motion of the ball and the rate of movement, it also reiterated key presses so I now have a real good understanding of that!

12 -6

oh shit it is here, the infamous collision detection. wow what a pain in the butt matt haha. I can get either one side or the other but not both. I keep trying so many different things and cannot get it to work. when I get it to work on one, I lose it on the other. I am going to come in for help.

9 - 1010

went in to get help in the morning and we were unable to it it working this morning, will try again this afternoon.

1 - 4

well we worked on this for a while and some very weird things were happening to the collision, we get it on some of the paddle but not the other and we completely have it on one. will try again wednesday

on this day we were able to get the collision detection on both of the paddles but when I move my left paddle down and it hits the bottom of the screen, it shrinks, ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!! back to the drawing board

went on a SDL forum and asked some question and was able to get help on both the paddle problem and the formula for calculating the movement speed of the ball!!!! oh baby we are getting there!

ok my program is running smoothly except for the fact that it sometimes crashes when I score. Presley helped me with debugging and found the problem and helped me fix it!

ok the problem is still there with the crashing, I went over it with matt and mike and found out it was the x velocity when the ball was going completely straight and was causing a floating point exception! all set now :)

PONG IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!