It has begun…
One thing I’ve learned in the last week – everyone loves a good ray tracer. Even my first, poorly written one. It seems that every man and his dog who has ever touched a computer has written one, and is able to give me advice. That’s a neat feeling; I’m following in the footsteps of many of those before me, and poorly reinventing the wheel for my own amusement and education.
I’ve just submitted my course enrollment for next year. It seems my fears about my failed calculus unit in first year preventing me from doing anything until I’ve completed the subsequent maths units is unfounded, as while I have different units to normal students in my course this and next year (due to the shifted maths units), I’ve still got a normal workload. It sucks that my course will be extended by at least six months at the end due to my inability to keep up in second semester last year, but it’s a part of life and something I cannot change.
For my specialties next year, I’ve decided to skip database fundamentals – I already have them, “DROP {Tablename}”, “TRUNCATE {TableName}”, “‘ OR 1=1”, *grin* – and go for the network engineering instead. That means I’ll be learning TCP/IP for real next year, which should cement the knowedge of TCP/IP I gained this year while writing my RNDIS Ethernet USB demo application for my MyUSB stack.
Speaking of the MyUSB stack, I’ve bitten the bullet and started to fully document all the demos with Doxygen. That means that the next release will contain function, macro, enum, file and global documentation for all of the demos, projects and bootloaders in the MyUSB library. It’s an absolutely enormous amount of work to be done, which will delay 1.5.4 for quite a while, especially due to my end of year exams which start in two days. Pray for my sanity, or better yet, donate!
My continued apologies to anyone whose messages to me I’m neglecting while I study for my exams. Please be patient, and above all understanding!
