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Oh hey, it’s been two months

Dear readers,

How have you all been doing? Well, I hope. I had an interesting last month of the semester which kept me pretty busy. The Rubik’s Cube project took up a lot of time to code all of the cases. I did manage to finish it on time, though, and it managed to handle everything I threw at it, so that was good. Met the specs, and the presentation and demonstration went well, so I got an A in the class. You can see the finished site for the projects here; the most interesting page would probably be the “Live Demo,” assuming you have a Rubik’s Cube handy.

If I ever decide to go back to the code, there are a few things to handle that I didn’t get around to. The big one is the return code nonsense that’s strewn about the solver code; I could probably cut at least 100 lines of code for the better by throwing exceptions into the mix. The solver is also dependent on color order in a way too boringly complicated to explain here, and I think I know exactly how to fix it so it’s more robust, but I didn’t have enough time to get to it.

The other big event was my hard drive explosion. Some might remember when my hard drive ate itself two years ago about six months after I got my laptop. Since between now and then an Apple-certified repair place opened in Evansville, I decided to take my computer there instead of shipping it like I did last time. This turned out to be a big mistake on my part, since it took them about three to four weeks to return my computer to me with a new hard drive, compared to the lightning-quick less-than-a-day turnaround of AppleCare. But, the laptop works again, so life is good.

And, of course, a late merry Christmas to all of you who want one.

Sincerely,
CHz

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