Saturday, June 6, 2009
Duke Summer Days: Part 4
Ok, so second post of the day - this one will outline the 4th week of my Duke Summer experience. I started a new post because after advice from M.S. and reading a few other blogs I want a new format...more outline, with real text only for stuff people will want to read. The outline will likely be just for my memories.
The idea is...DJ Sharkey's How To's. In life there are so many things that are so simple to do, but hard to get a foot in the door for. For example, traveling - the first time is a scary experience. Web programming-how do I learn the difference between PHP and HTML in human terms? Camping - what do I need? I don't necessarily expect my website to be widely used, at first I just want it to be posting on my own, but maybe eventually I can have it be a wiki format (hmm starting to sound oddly like wikihow...but I'm sure I can differentiate somehow, if only by providing useful information). Scratch that last line, I just read wikihow and it looks really similar to what I was talking about. Hmmm, maybe a site I'll use more often? None the less, I want to make this site. By the way, my love of documentation kind of inspired this one...kind of a documentation on my life. ¶ 4:59 PM
- General Feelings: been very tired/haven't wanted to work out too much/kind of bored...think I'm getting over it though...just making me even more excited for Australia though!
- Need to be more proactive...why haven't I gone camping yet?!? Why haven't I rented a bike from the outpost?
- RoboCup Progress: Used machine shop! Awesome! Know how to use a lathe and a milling machine!
- Learned a lot about voltage/power/voltage regulators. Might even do something cool soon!
- RoboCup taught me some things about myself: 1) I love documentation...on everthing.
- Other: -Fell in love with the show weeds (watched like 2.5 seasons in 3 days, including staying up until 4:30 AM with A.P. watching and being late to work the next day due to watching). Climbing at Pilot Mountain tomorrow with Z.C. Want to go camping really badly.
- Began working on coding (something similar to this http://tralvex.com/pub/bowling/BSC.htm). Want to be able to do it in Java, C, C++, and something I can put on the web (a combo of html + php + javascript+ajax...gotta learn them all better to know what to do) A.B. is helping me learn the languages. The program was Dad's idea.
- Climbed at wall today = so much fun!
- Need to learn HTML/CSS...typing in this smart text box or whatever it's called doesn't work, I can't even indent my outline.
- After reading J.S.'s blog - I want to go to Kenya so bad!
The idea is...DJ Sharkey's How To's. In life there are so many things that are so simple to do, but hard to get a foot in the door for. For example, traveling - the first time is a scary experience. Web programming-how do I learn the difference between PHP and HTML in human terms? Camping - what do I need? I don't necessarily expect my website to be widely used, at first I just want it to be posting on my own, but maybe eventually I can have it be a wiki format (hmm starting to sound oddly like wikihow...but I'm sure I can differentiate somehow, if only by providing useful information). Scratch that last line, I just read wikihow and it looks really similar to what I was talking about. Hmmm, maybe a site I'll use more often? None the less, I want to make this site. By the way, my love of documentation kind of inspired this one...kind of a documentation on my life. ¶ 4:59 PM
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