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Boy Those Kids Can Move!
11025 days
by Marc Ferguson
in Rant
At the end of the day I feel very, “empowered!” Boy does that sound gay! It’s the truth though. My wife and I bought a lot of fruits and vegetables at the local Korean market and I’m starting to become more comfortable with having vegetables and other non-grain items as a snack. With that said, I realized just how much carbs are in my diet. It was mostly through snacking. Since I’ve become aware of that, I made the mental note to find anything but Animal Crackers, Gold Fish, and Granolla Bars for my in-between meals.
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Environment Issues Tonight
11027 days
by Marc Ferguson
in Video Games
Chapter 2 talks about conditional statements, such as IF, WHILE, SWITCH functions. I’ve used those alot with Javascript and PHP pages. So; for the most part, I plan on skimming this section. I did see a simple SWITCH program I wanted to run. It looked like fun. I had a weird thing happen though. My C/C++ Development Environment (CDT) went missing. I saw that the C++ plugins were showing, but I couldn’t get that perspective up and running. In the end, I simply uninstalled/reinstlled “eclipse-cdt” and it was back to normal. Something must have conflicted during the last system update.
Back on it After a Long Day
01034 days
by Marc Ferguson
in Video Games
What a day. It’s 22:31 and I can hardly believe it. I probably have about another half hour left in me, then it’s bed time and start the day all over again. We went to one of the neighborhoods for a fair, it ended up not being all that great, but it was a beautiful day. I had to take the kids home, to feed and put them to bed. We had a visit from our rock-star cousin, Christopher Comrie, and later on we babysat London, so her parents could go watch a movie.
Getting to Know My CDT
01035 days
by Marc Ferguson
in Video Games
I’m working with Eclipse and I finally jumped into their Help files to figure out how do I do a simple “Hello World” application. The first one was a template, so I created an empty project just to see what the difference is and I was able to recreate the hello world app. Very cool. Since my earliest memory of programming goes back to Borland, I’m very impressed with how this CDT works. As you create objects in the code, there’s a reference created in the Outline tab. This will make navigating your code so much easier. Also; as your typing, it’ll automatically display a “syntax error” if you have one. I’m guessing VisualStudio has this already built-in, but this is new to me and I’m loving it.
Now that I have the basics, of this CDT, I’m back to reading the book. I believe I ended off declaring variables. I created a variable.cpp file and began working with the editor. Very nice how it helps. Oh boy, I left it at page 20. I’m too tired to continue.
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