But I digress...

Friday, November 06, 2009

At long last after a week and a half of causal play like study lower in priority than my school work, working the polls, and doing odd chores about the house (truth be told this Java stuff being easy and kind of fun makes it unofficially tied with chores for priority), WJ-2752-6E is nearly complete. At this moment I embark on the last exercise of the last lab of this course and ready myself for the future. I think I am going to complete this series of course before doing the 1XXX and editing this blog.

Distractions, distractions, distractions. I am still going to try and finish this lab before the weekend is over, but I just realized I am no longer a week ahead in class, so I need to remedy that first as it is higher on my list of priorities. Ok, I submitted this week’s assignment. I am going to take the quiz this evening and I am going to do next week’s reading. I am so glad these courses complement each other.

You know I might just put off this week’s reading until the week it is due in. Yes, I am well aware of the colloquial connotations contained in the phrase “this week”, and I am also aware of the denotative and prescriptive semantics and syntax implied in it as well, but in the broader context in which I am using it, it is a variable to which I assign assignments for the purpose of maintaining the illusions that I intend not to ever have a hand at programming robotic chore delegates festooned with awards for the passing and upgrading to pass real world exceptions to the subroutines, though it is actually used for maintaining a study schedule that follows the lesson plans. I had intended to accelerate in my formal studies at the expense of rapid completion of the Sun WJ-275X-Series Java CBTs. And Instead this of I ramble on aimlessly hoping to hint at my activities regarding this other Java course I am trying to pawn off on the moisture farmers.

Utinni!

WJ-2752 Lab 5 Exercise 2:

I love the Jawa Iziz in the Knight of the Old Republic game. He’s a funny little guy and surprisingly knowledgeable about the history of mining on Tattooine. His buddies were being held hostage by the Sand People. I think they were impressed with Revan’s shining armor and diplomatic relations were tense but the Mighty Chieftain secured many blessings for his people. Uhh… please pay attention to the heading.
How’s this for digression I just read the first lecture for next week (i.e. this week’s (see above))? It was great. These courses really complement each other. I had my suspicions confirmed for the effect of certain methods that appear at certain cursor positions relative to identifiers when you press Ctrl+space in Eclipse. I am curious to see if I remember to when I go over the labs I have taken so far to let my dreamer have a longer leash, maybe one of those one’s that are like tape measures and wind up with a spiral spring, with the Ctrl+space exploratory combinatorical randomizers in ape suits. I just imagine a pair of monkeys with little green accountant’s visors flipping coins and rolling dice and marking the results on a chalkboard, and one in the corner wearing a dunce cap and trying to apply the same method to build a typewriter that increases the odds of random button strokes writing Hamlet. Me I just assign each letter key a 26th of Hamlet in auto complete and tell myself that someday I will write a macro to randomize the assignments.
The next lecture is on exception handling. I am quite pleased as neither the WJ-2751 nor the WJ-2752 Sun CBTs have covered this, and I need to know for the sake of the monkeys in my brain screaming program better! program more! Program now! I kid. There are no monkeys in my brain screaming. And even if there were, how would I understand what they are screaming? They’re monkeys not people. No, I have some distant elevator music in my head. It’s soothing but I can’t quite make out the tune. It makes me want to listen to the Fallout3 soundtrack, and that kind of makes me want to hear the O’ Brother Where Art Though soundtrack. The last lecture was about the String object and its methods. I am so going to let myself make some sort decoder ring or something.

Oooh, a third lecture and hooray its drawing! I wonder how long it will take me to draw a Jawa. And a third? Event handling? Huzzah! And I was worried that the pace of the course would be merely leisurely, this is brisk. Huzzah! You know, dorkus, everybody else isn’t a speed reading genius. Don’t be jealous. For money I can teach you stuff I know about speed reading and geniuses. This week’s lectures almost seem like a crash course in the J in AJAX or a casual imperative to make a graphing calculator when you get the free time.

"Look Java, next time you wanna talk to me, come see me yourself. Don't send one of these twerps."-