-- MichaelCurtis - 16 Jun 2009

Some Days Are Rainy: June 16, 2009

We had the GMAP Symposium today, which was interesting. I don't think I had a full appreciation the social science research, since it was mostly qualitative with a small sample size. However, I did pay attention to the first presenter of the second A session, who is an alum at the school my brother currently attends. I guess that means I'm more of an engineer type person, although I disagree.

It also rained today, which mirrored my feelings about OpenGL Blackjack, which didn't get finished. I'm convinced that a multithread implementation would have been better, since I have multithreading experience in Java. But that might require more time and effort and understanding.

Subtitle inspired by Lupe Fiasco. "Some days it ain't so sunny, but it ain't that bad."

MichaelOren - 17 Jun 2009 - 13:41

C++ threading is more complicated than Java. I hate C++ threading, personally. The language was written when processors were lucky if they could run one process in series well, let alone running a process jumping back and forth on occasion--the threading was then tacked on (and it shows--not to mention being painful). Python threading is fun to write though.

Did your group create a system architecture design document beforehand to plan out how everything fit together? It seemed like you had some modular programming, but how modular was your design?

IvanOjeda - 17 Jun 2009 - 00:23

Curtis For President

I'd vote for you if you were a candidate.

BellaManoim - 16 Jun 2009 - 16:19

you guys did a good job on it anyway