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enismirdalRealised my somewhat negative attitude to Life, the Universe and Everything earlier this week, and quite possibly also the lack of progress with code, most likely stemmed from The Usual Problem With Women. So the end of this week has improved immeasurably.
Today ended on a high note - I made code all by myself, and it worked! This is the first time I've done it, and although what the code was doing was rather excruciatingly simple, I felt very proud indeed! I think creating code and forcing it to work is the best way to learn its ins and outs. I was assisted by a book I got out of the college library, which was aimed at scientists and engineers, so went through the sort of things I'd been struggling with previously in nice, simple detail! :)
This meant I felt justified in not staying late, so read some papers to pass the time and then headed back. Had a long nap this evening, and will stay up to a proper Eni bedtime, like 2am or maybe 3am, as opposed to what I've been doing on weekdays lately, which is getting worried if I'm not in bed by half midnight or one.
This weekend is a quiet one. I REALLY need this. Tomorrow I'll do some shopping, buy some fun things, probably, and perhaps brave the Evil that is Dixons Group and get a laptop bag and laptop lock. Alternatively, does anyone recommend a specific laptop lock from Amazon, Novatech or anyone who isn't Dixons Group? I also need a spare ethernet cable for the lab, as I'm sure being carried to/from the lab each day is not doing any favours for my pretty purple one. In the long term, I'm also pretty sure I'll be needing a USB hard disk too, as I'm down to my last 7GB of hard drive on this one, and I still haven't installed Novell or LaTeX, and am bound to accumulate more music!
Today ended on a high note - I made code all by myself, and it worked! This is the first time I've done it, and although what the code was doing was rather excruciatingly simple, I felt very proud indeed! I think creating code and forcing it to work is the best way to learn its ins and outs. I was assisted by a book I got out of the college library, which was aimed at scientists and engineers, so went through the sort of things I'd been struggling with previously in nice, simple detail! :)
This meant I felt justified in not staying late, so read some papers to pass the time and then headed back. Had a long nap this evening, and will stay up to a proper Eni bedtime, like 2am or maybe 3am, as opposed to what I've been doing on weekdays lately, which is getting worried if I'm not in bed by half midnight or one.
This weekend is a quiet one. I REALLY need this. Tomorrow I'll do some shopping, buy some fun things, probably, and perhaps brave the Evil that is Dixons Group and get a laptop bag and laptop lock. Alternatively, does anyone recommend a specific laptop lock from Amazon, Novatech or anyone who isn't Dixons Group? I also need a spare ethernet cable for the lab, as I'm sure being carried to/from the lab each day is not doing any favours for my pretty purple one. In the long term, I'm also pretty sure I'll be needing a USB hard disk too, as I'm down to my last 7GB of hard drive on this one, and I still haven't installed Novell or LaTeX, and am bound to accumulate more music!
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