First, I liiiiiivvvvvvveeeee! If you don't get the reference, watch Mulan. The hectic semester is over and the grades are slowly trickling in. One of my classes, Introduction to Theory of Computation, was one of the harder classes I've ever taken and if I'm being honest...

It's that time of the year: projects/homework/exams. Anyway, I created a 'demo' of a class project that's due next week. I'm still working out subtle bugs with it but I'd like to get a little fancy with it so I'm open to suggestions. Check out the demo on YouTube. For...

So, if you haven't noticed, I made my Github repos private. Specifically, I made the repos containing code for class projects private because my code was being, ahem, reused in ways that could have made me party to honor code violations. As a result, I won't be making...

For over 2 weeks, I've been writing code using Emacs. To see what writing C++ in an IDE was like, I tried writing a simple "Hello World" in Eclipse and when I hit run, I was getting an odd "Launch failed. Binary not found" message. I googled that exact error message and...

I'm taking Theory of Computation (text by Sudkamp) this semester and one of the immediate benefits is being able to understand & interpret regular expressions. java.util.regex is a package that contains "classes (Pattern and Matcher) for matching character sequences against...

For two of my classes (C++/C and more Java) this semester, I'll be diving into the CLI. If you've read my other site (Jane Talks Tech!), you'll know that I've been exposed to the Linux but for the most part, my stomping grounds have been the Microsoft Windows OS. Typing...

For one of my programming projects last year, our task was to create a version of the Die Rich Craps game. I finally decided to put my code for that project (and others) on Github. My submitted project looks, in retrospect, a little unreadable but I did try to comment...

When creating constructors and adding setters, I've been taught to verify all input passed to the method. In working through the ProjectEuler exercises, I've made use of helper methods that hadformal parameters but didn't necessarily verify the input (bad habit). With Problem8...

I'm thankful for family and thankful that my faculties are still sharp. :) Long way of saying my semester ended on a very strong note. Taking a break from stuffing myself, I thought of a crude solution to Problem 5 from ProjectEuler.net. Caution: With the way I solved...