Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

Brandon Valosek's reflections on life, philosophy, and programming

Category: Computers and Programming

Questionable Coding Practices

As I’m trying to finish up one of my programming projects, I was scanning through some of the code I had written and found something that was rather… interesting.
Normally, I consider myself a good programmer, but sometimes I have to take shortcuts and cut corners.
Here is a snippet from one of my recent projects in [...]

Computer Zombie

This semester, four of my five classes are based on programming. A compilers class (hard), a computer architecture class (very difficult), a Python class (moderately time consuming), and a VHDL design class (time consuming… and hard). This translates into me having about 1.8 projects due a week that involve a heavy amount of coding… as [...]