18 Sep 2009 | E-mail from yesterday
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDY,
GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!!! My Data Structures class is so fucking hard. I mean, the concepts and material themselves are relatively simple. But the whole course is in C++, and I'm not fucking USED to the fucking language!
'Cause, you see, I was programming this one assignment in C++. I started it yesterday and I spent over six hours on it. I overestimated my programming skillz on my last homework assignment, which resulted in a nonfunctional program and me using up two of my three "grace" days for late homework. So, I was like, "Okay, I'll start working on it earlier." Which I did. And I worked pretty fucking hard. But the whole program is so fucking convoluted and long, which ended up in me racing against the clock — ONCE AGAIN — and then narrowly missing my 12:00 AM submission deadline. So, my last "grace" day is gone. And I haven't even completed the fucking program!
To my credit, however, I did figure out a bunch of new things in C++. And the program this time is mostly functional, instead of completely kaput.
Sooooooooooo, yeah. Next time I'm going to try working on the assignment a whole week before it's due. I just never imagined programming could be so fucking time-consuming.
You wanted an update, right? Here ya go. I hope you like the swear words.
By the way, please don't sound like such a pair of prissy-pants. It's bad enough that a certain high school guidance counselor writes to me that way.
Love,
Jenny-fa
P.S. Can I buy some clothes online now? As a consolatory present? @____@
Tags: colleges, computer programming
Misaki says:
CS does take time, especially debugging, and especially since you don't know how long it takes to debug.
I've pulled many an all-nighters for CS assignments. It sucks that my brain generally works best around 4-6 am.
12:54 pm | Sunday, September 20, 2009