Worus

My weekend was pretty relaxing. I spent most of mt time actually coding for fun. I learned how to code with Mono as well as with Gtk# and Glade#. I started to write a small Notepad-like application in C#. It was pretty neat. I seem to have a problem with Gtk# at the moment, though, where if a file opened is too large the program will crash randomly. I’m not sure if it’s a weakness in the library or my code. Everything I’ve done points to it being the library’s set of bindings’ fault, but then again, isn’t that always the case?

The API for Gtk# and Glade# is really slick, though. It fits in nicely with the C# goodness. I’m digging it.

I also downloaded the Super Metroid remix album that Ryan mentioned last week. It is an awesome album and I’m thankful that these people decided to share their music with the rest of the Internet. It’s a really cool flashback if you’ve ever played Super Metroid. Very ambient.

Sunday and Monday, I worked on another Towers of Hanoi problem using interfaces, delegates, and events. The whole thing was very confusing to start with, and still somewhat confusing at the moment. I have the program done, though, and it’s pretty cool. The way that simple code can be so elegantly integrated with a graphical user interface is a neat concept. I’m sure that I’ll grow to love delegates and events, but at the moment, I find them scary.

Today is the engineering career fair. I’m not sure what to think. Beth and I are going later to hand out resumes and generally whore ourselves off for work. My hope is that the job market will be much better for full-time positions than interns. I think I’m going to mostly limit myself to companies in Iowa today, minus some exceptions for anything that I think is cool. Seeing that it’s my first career fair for employment for my first computer science job and that I don’t particularly have anywhere that I absolutely have to live when I graduate, I don’t know that I’m exactly ready to completely whore myself off. I’d like to stay close at least for a little while, but if I don’t end up that way after I graduate, I won’t be devastated or anything. I like to think that I could live anywhere.

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