Hey, hows it going?
sup dude! good brother I don't I've run into you yet in the chat first round?
Thats good! Haha. Ya, pretty much I dont get on here ver often
ah true do you just go for the raffle threshold?
How about you is this your first time on here?
no! I've been doing this for a while hahja I know that I'm not motivated or have enough time for the ipad so I just get enough for the raffle
Ya, pretty much. Oh, how hard is it to beat that guy who already is over a million Oh, that works
but it's been good fun. My typing speed has increased heaps since I've started. I started working on my pinky independece
I think the whole process of this chat thing is pretty neat
yeah...me and a few top chatters would do some hard core theorizing on how to game the system haha but basically, every round usually starts pretty fast, but everyone stops chatting halfway in
Oh, I bet, I think I actually saw your chat online. I didnt realized that I had left my chat on last night when I fell asleep and i think I saw your chat when I woke up
because one dude gets really motivated and builds such a big lead that everyone can't be bothered to compete with
Oh really Maybe Ill try to be that guy. Haha. Just kidding, that seems like a lot of points already in the game
oh hahah really? Yeah last night there was literally no one so I started typing whatever I heard from the show I was watching it was good typing practice
Its almost like its becoming more and more unachievable I think he is even going up right now
actually, you should have seen the first few rounds they were insane especially the second round
Really, what happened.
there were two people vying for hte top stop and they just kept going at it all the way to 7 million
Just the last round? I saw someone had like 7 million points or something. Thats honestly insane
no not last round but round 2 we're in round 5 I think
Oh, it was worse than the last one?
oh yeah for sure
I thought that there are only four rounds?
the last one was pretty standard as far as points go oh right so rounds 1,3 were pretty standard same thing happened back in spring
Really I got on yesterday morning and the top person was 7 million going on 8 and the other guy was about 7 million
serious?? Oh cool
Oh, how often do they do these competitions
I missed it. I was super inactive for the last round the top guy was pretty motivated to get an ipad for his wife so I didn't bother challenging that haha
Its incredible how often people can get on these things. Im just doing this while watching a movie that I need to watch for a film class
he would chat all days on saturday, from 6am onwards
On the second round? I have a friend that wanted it for his wife too, but hes already looking at these scores and wondering if it is even worth it. Haha Anyway... what do you think of the weather over the past couple of days. Have you been outside yet today? has it been better than the past few days?
no this last round haha I'm guessing he still won
Oh, that makes sense
I hate the cold weather!! I'm not from around here so the warm weather is good for me
Ya, its been really cold
only because I ride a bike everywhere, so I really need it not to snow anytime soon
Oh, that makes sense, it is really cold and that just increases the odds that its going to snow. If it rains by the time it gets down here it will either be ice or snow
right!!
You know I dont really get how water turns into ice or powdery ice What really determines hail from snow?
umm I think it's about the volume and consistency? that would be my guess
I get the difference in what they look like, but I dont get the whole differences in how they are created.
and also, I play instruments and in general hate wearing clothes, so I don't like cold weather
I feel like I get the snow from water, but snow and hail are just really confusing to me haha
but the only thing that I like is being in a warm home and watching snow fall outside that's got to be one of the best things ever are you local? or are you just here for school
Im just here for school. I am from Utah still though. I just am from way up north almost to Idaho Kind of by logan. Its just really small though that no one really knows what it is
ahh cool logan! that's where the polynesians live or was that west jordan
I think you are thinking of west jordan. Logan is a really white town. haha
oh true how many years are you into your degere?? what are you studying
Its like super white actually. haha. Im only one year in, and Im a sophomore, but I absolutely love Computer Science and Im applying to be in the animation emphasis in a couple of months I apply in December, I really think that I can do it though
oh awesome dude maybe I have chatted with you already you
There are a lot of people who apply, and the acceptance is only thirty percent, but I think I can do it
are the guy who knows kaede right
I applied for the animation program in April
yeah! I did chat with you
Ya, I think that was my first day or so chatting
hahaha nice
It seems like so long ago
what have you been upto
Just been working on homework How about you?
good! I'm at school just studying
What are you studying on Saturday? Just seems like most of my studying happens during the week. Although, I still have tons of homework. But I never go to the school on saturday or sundays. I avoid it like the plague haha Actually i really like BYU, just need a break from it sometimes. You know?
I'm just doing some CS stuff and getting ready for an exam soon... really?? I love being on campus so much I get so much more work done
I must have forgotten, that you are in the Computer Science major
I'm on this eternal cycle of trying to finish as much work as possible to give me the maximum buffer for the final exam
Really, I like isolating myself I guess. I really like things to be in my zen haha
oh I'm just taking some CS classes. I'm not completely decided yet oh I get that my bro. I pick the most private places on campus to do work
Oh, thats right now I remember! The conversation is coming back to me
I get no privacy at home because roomates have girlfriends over etc
Where do you study?
a few places.
Oh, that makes sense
If I have an upcoming exam, I'll be in the maeser building really really quiet place
I actually have a private room. So I just go home and log into my computer and then make things work for hours on end listening to music while doing it
people don't even know what goes down in there oh awesome man
Oh, ya, I have studied there before
how much are you paying for hte private room?
Im only paying 325 for it at wyview
if not there, I'll go to the labs at the talmage or some select places at the engineering building
Ya, the labs are cool, they just seem depressing because there is no natural lighting, if you know what I mean Like I really get depressed in there I like my home windows open as much as I can just so that I can feel the sun! haha Im not really a hippy just really like the way the lighting makes me feel
yeah for sure. I just like that there are TAs down there. I spam them a lot
Oh, that is a real advantage. The past few days Ive been down there working with a group on some CS 224 stuff and realized that the TA's really struggled to help us They would just come in and tell us you probably should just look at the code. And we were like, we have been for many hours. Then they would leave. haha
haha how are you doing with that class
Or they would tell us, just google it, or just GDB it. haha. I dont know if you know what GDB is but its a debugger in the terminal
are you getting destroyed yet
Im surviving
yeah GDB and valgrind are awesome
I have an A
oh good on ya
so that is good I have just barely started to learn what valgrind is We havent really used it for anything yet Although, I think we have an assignment that is due this next week, that we have to use it for Im still trying to figure this whole assembly thing out though
it's more or less GDB just for memory leaks
Just seems really confusing. With trying to figure out where all the values get stored Oh, ya, actually its not for CS 224 is for cs235 that I have to use valgrind for. Thats right he is now trying to teach us how to get better memory management of our programs Because sometimes memory management really sucks on programs and your memory on your computer can just be completely wasted
oh true what professor do you have for 235? crandall?
I have Crandall Yup, I love him. He is absolutely the best He honestly knows so much about it
oh true awesome
Did you have him?
nope
Oh, how did you know about crandall then?
but I've just observed that crandall students seem to have a really hard time getting their labs done the perpetual 6 day grace day thing is a huge handicap for students who procrastinate for sure
Really? I have had the opposite feeling, I have seen the other class and realized Ive had friends drop out of the class because they couldnt figure it out Thats probably true, but as long as you are on top of things that grace period is really nice I have had to use it and because I have been able to I still have a near one hundred percent in the class And I think I did well in the midterm
ah good man you're on top of things
The hardest thing for me was in the beginning there was a really complicated main. And that just made it really hard to know what i was supposed to do.
I've been on top of 235, but just barely with the other classes i just make sure to put that in the top of my priorities
But I have learned just to ignore that and to look at the instructions that he gives us
but getting good grades is really tough work huhg one wrong midterm and things turn around quick
Are you in 235?
I just want to make the biggest buffer possible for the final, becuase I usually struggle with final exams yeah I am we just finished up linked lists we're going into trees
Oh, I didnt pick up on that. Have you learned all the big o, and quicksort yet? Oh, thats exactly where we are at too. We finish linked lists this tuesday. Or at least thats when its due
yeah for sure we did the big o and everything we just finished learning about tree traversals and are starting with AVL quicksort was kind of tricky...but just for the recursion part. Everything else was pretty standard
I was a little confused by it, but not on how to figure it out. More of the stuff that you have to memorize like the average, and worst for each of the sorting mechanisms. ya, I just had a hard time with trying to figure out how to get it to call itself in just the right amount of times with the right base case and stuff Its pretty crazy That lab definitely took me a bit of time to finish But now Im back on schedule and have started this lab, but havent finished it yet
haha nice nice
I have till tuesday, and here comes the procrastination part, haha, I then have 6 days after that too. haha
I love everything about this class I think that it is so usefull. This is prime interviewing material
I really like how easy it really has been. 142 seemed to be way harder. This one is just theory and thinking, where as 142 was a whole new language
also, I went to this python convention or something and I was shocked to see how many functions and libraries python comes with they have a function for anything and everything
I dont use python but Ive heard it is so easy and useful to use on a lot of things
but a lot of people had no idea how the underlying data stuctures worked or how a linked list was coded etc
I think it would be good to learn more of
I think it's great to learn about all of this yea for sureeee! I'm super happy with what I'm learning
Oh, ya, alot of the data structures is a new concept for everyone I feel like. But once you get it, it makes sense how it works. Really its just the fact that one thing doesnt work for everything and you need to know a lot of different techniques of coding to be able to get around certain circumstances
yeah. It really shines a light on this massive black box
No kidding. Question... Should I go to a soccer intramural game?
everytime I write code now, I just obsess about the On time and everything
Im trying to figure out if I really want to go or not haha
yeah it's probably unhealthy. I especially get snappy at other languages because they don't even have pointers
Ya, trying to figure out how to optimize your code is a super good thing though, and you should keep doing that, but if it stresses you out too much then I say dont worry too much about it Really, I thought other C based languages have pointers and java I think has them I dont know if python has them though HTML CSS and Javascript dont though, i dont think Mainly because their structure is just so much different though They are barely coding languages. haha Just kidding I really like web development and the ease it has to building creative solutions for projects.
so C and java do have poiinters
Yup, I think so
but if you check out python or swift or other higher level languages they don't bother with pointers because they want the code to be easier
oh, that makes sense. Pointers are definitely a more advanced concepts
so they will optimize their libraries in C and C++, but not allow direct access to the code if that make sense it's an abstraction
even with java most of the time you wouldnt even have to use them I dont think
have you done any javascript? I'm super keen to get into it
So if you want to reference something in swift how would you do it?
I'm trying to learn vue, but I want to pick up react as well what do you mean by reference? swift has the usuals: variables, classes, etc
I love javascript! its like a super great way to do web development, and make things more interactive on the web Well, pointers point to references of things, correct? So what if you have an address you want to point to that doesnt exist yet, but want to reference it so that when something is put there you can get the value? I dont know if that makes any sense, but as far as I know that is generally one of the main purposes of pointers They probably have some kind of function that you can call in those languages Or you might just not need them in those languages because you dont ever run into situations that you would need them
ahh ok I see um not sure. I've never had to do anything like that so far the swift code is usually done with an iOS app in mind
I think Ive decided to go to soccer. I better get ready
aahh ture awesome that's great that you have a life haha old me just chatting away on saturday while doing code
Ya, thats true. Ios development will be fun. have a great day! Haha
muahaha I keep telling myself that it's all worth it
Thats cool though
you too!! See you on the chat soon thanks