Another random entry.
School's actually going fairly well - finally got my CS114 textbook. (sohappy ;o;) Also ordered a couple of t-shirts, which should arrive sometime next week.
Also e-mailed my CS prof. I kind of feel embarassed now, because I addressed him as "Prof. Zhao," and he signed his reply "Luyin." (His name is Dr. Luyin Zhao. The dude I had last semester was also Chinese, I believe, but I'm sure he went in English order - and he preferred that we use his English name anyway.)
Now, I know Chinese people tend to go family name first, so I feel kind of...stupid? >_> And since I'm not familiar with Chinese surnames and given names, I may have addressed him by his given name, which - while it's not a huge thing - is kind of embarassing.
At least he answered my question politely. (I wasn't clear on how intensive it needed to be. My hunch was correct, which I'm kind of happy about; I would have been lost if I'd needed to understand schema and that shit. I have a basic understanding, as I picked up an XML primer last summer, but I'm still an XML noob.)
Anyway. I'm not too freaked out about that, though. I'm more worried about my assignment, which I haven't coded yet. (I think I know the methods I need to use, and how to describe them. I should be able to do that tonight, but UGH. I want to do a linked list stack implementation, but I can't figure out how to work it. I'm more familiar/comfortable with array implementations of stacks, but that automatically imposes an upper limit on the number of lines that the file can have, and while I can certainly make a hugeass array, I think that it would be more flexible if I went from node to node.
In normal language, an array doesn't fit the program's purposes, but I fail at using the other data structure. EWPS.
I can certainly do it initially with an array stack and since I can change the backend around without rewriting the other program, it wouldn't cause too many problems. But I DUN WANNA. ;o;
Also e-mailed my CS prof. I kind of feel embarassed now, because I addressed him as "Prof. Zhao," and he signed his reply "Luyin." (His name is Dr. Luyin Zhao. The dude I had last semester was also Chinese, I believe, but I'm sure he went in English order - and he preferred that we use his English name anyway.)
Now, I know Chinese people tend to go family name first, so I feel kind of...stupid? >_> And since I'm not familiar with Chinese surnames and given names, I may have addressed him by his given name, which - while it's not a huge thing - is kind of embarassing.
At least he answered my question politely. (I wasn't clear on how intensive it needed to be. My hunch was correct, which I'm kind of happy about; I would have been lost if I'd needed to understand schema and that shit. I have a basic understanding, as I picked up an XML primer last summer, but I'm still an XML noob.)
Anyway. I'm not too freaked out about that, though. I'm more worried about my assignment, which I haven't coded yet. (I think I know the methods I need to use, and how to describe them. I should be able to do that tonight, but UGH. I want to do a linked list stack implementation, but I can't figure out how to work it. I'm more familiar/comfortable with array implementations of stacks, but that automatically imposes an upper limit on the number of lines that the file can have, and while I can certainly make a hugeass array, I think that it would be more flexible if I went from node to node.
In normal language, an array doesn't fit the program's purposes, but I fail at using the other data structure. EWPS.
I can certainly do it initially with an array stack and since I can change the backend around without rewriting the other program, it wouldn't cause too many problems. But I DUN WANNA. ;o;