Edited by Neil Anderson, Saturday, 12 Nov 2011, 21:32
Today I've spent around six hours hacking Java: good. I'm recreating my solitaire programme...not so good [I can hear some people screaming at this point.]
I don't intend to delve into history here, those of you who have been reading this blog for some time will know of this thing of old. [And Phil & Robb, who actually managed to get a working app. together last year, must be screaming the loudest.] Still.
I had a thought; what about 3-D solitaire? It was the book on partial differentiation that gave me the idea. Indirectly.
I went to bed very early last night, much drink had been taken. Thus I awoke early. I was lying in bed trying not to think about going to work, so I tried to visualize what was going on with partial differentiation. I won't bore you with my suppositions, they will be wrong, but it did get me thinking about how two 2-D solitaire boards might interact. Hence 3-D solitaire.
When I got to work [work] I started thinking about how this could be studied [some form of lego will build the board]. Which lead me to open up one of my many solitaire programmes. I thought that I could see a way to do it better...
I'm probably wrong, but if the only thing that I manage to achieve is to get me programming again then this is still gain territory. As long as I'm coding something I'm at least alive, to a certain extent.
coding again
Today I've spent around six hours hacking Java: good. I'm recreating my solitaire programme...not so good [I can hear some people screaming at this point.]
I don't intend to delve into history here, those of you who have been reading this blog for some time will know of this thing of old. [And Phil & Robb, who actually managed to get a working app. together last year, must be screaming the loudest.] Still.
I had a thought; what about 3-D solitaire? It was the book on partial differentiation that gave me the idea. Indirectly.
I went to bed very early last night, much drink had been taken. Thus I awoke early. I was lying in bed trying not to think about going to work, so I tried to visualize what was going on with partial differentiation. I won't bore you with my suppositions, they will be wrong, but it did get me thinking about how two 2-D solitaire boards might interact. Hence 3-D solitaire.
When I got to work [work] I started thinking about how this could be studied [some form of lego will build the board]. Which lead me to open up one of my many solitaire programmes. I thought that I could see a way to do it better...
I'm probably wrong, but if the only thing that I manage to achieve is to get me programming again then this is still gain territory. As long as I'm coding something I'm at least alive, to a certain extent.