Reblog If You’re A Student Actively Ignoring An Assignment

Scene: I’m sitting in my dorm room the first semester of college.

I finally get my code working and am doing the final cleanup before submitting. I delete some lines that I had commented out because, you know, I was scared to get rid of them at the time in case they became useful later.

I run my code after deleting the aforementioned COMMENTS just to make sure everything still works. As expected, it works! Then it doesn’t. Then it works again! And again! Then it doesn’t. I put the comment back in just in case that’s what was keeping everything together (see: superstition) and it works for 6 straight tests, which thoroughly confuses me.

I ultimately found out that the problem was not, in fact, with the comments that do nothing but actually with an integer I was declaring and incrementing without ever initializing, creating “random” behavior.

It really be like that sometimes

I have so much respect for the ToString() method of Pandas Dataframes in Python.

If you’re wondering why, it’s because I’m currently trying to make a halfway decent depiction of a C# matrix multidimensional array that just puts my hashkeys in the right places and things are not going well at all. 

Mainstream

Has anyone else avoided a programming language because it’s “too mainstream” for them? 

I like that a Razor pages app (and really ASP at large) makes organization effortless, but I do not like how complicated a simple project becomes because of that organization. 

Yes yes I know that it’s not made for small projects and it exists for large, enterprise endeavors, but still. Just let me pass data to my pages without 3 hours of configuration. 

Hi Tumblr, I’m back. I hope you’ve all been well.

Console.WriteLine(”Not Bad”);

Alright so I find myself liking C# and the .NET framework. For anyone who hasn’t delved into understanding what it is and WHY it is: .NET is, like all other frameworks, a collection of tools for developers. Except this one is on steroids, and tailored to Windows BY Microsoft, meaning you can make awesome Windows applications without tracking down everything you need. It’s all just right there. 

C# is basically C++ with all of the .NET adapters actively available. You can also think of it like Java but instead of running inside of the JVM, it runs on Windows. 

Microsoft’s documentation is also really well-written for it, which is nice.

BONUS in case anyone is curious: ASP.NET is a framework that extends the overarching .NET to provide tools specifically for web application dev. I haven’t gotten far into the ASP documentation yet so I can’t say much about it other than that.

Update: I never even gazed at the pond. And I do not intend to.

It’s high time I dip my toes into Rust

It has builtins that let you change the color of the text in the console! By far my prettiest Hello World to date.

Happy Pride!

Alan Turing, one of the best computer scientists and programmers ever, was gay. The world lost him at a young age because he wasn’t treated with the kindness every human deserves. 

Be nice to your fellow person. Be they a mathematical prodigy or an innominate stranger, everyone deserves to love and be loved. 

Some articles about Turing:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/alan-turing-a-prodigy-whose-life-was-curtailed-for-being-homosexual-5bd5e686c1c0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/24/alan-turing-was-a-war-hero-prosecuted-for-being-gay-he-finally-got-a-pardon/

Before and after adding css animations

before and after tie dye