Greg Loesch (compulsiveguile) – Blog

I was working on a parser for a programming project a few weeks ago for school in which reading an input file one character at a time proved to be the easiest route to take. While I found a few different resources online that provided some guidance, but I ran into a somewhat unexpected problem that was difficult to debug regarding detecting the end of stream (EOS)/end of file. This solution is not earth shattering (pretty intuitive actually), but I would have liked to have read something similar to this beforehand. It would have saved me a bit of time. Read more…

Sorry for the repeated negative posts, but I can’t hold myself back from this one. This is about my wonderful *yes, that’s sarcasm* day that I got to experience. I had a pretty good day yesterday, and I was optimistic looking ahead to the week. Then today happened.

The day started out pretty well. I felt somewhat awake and alert in my 8 AM Java programming class, and I had a sub professor that was… pretty funny. He cracked jokes pretty much the entire time… a lot of the jokes being suited for elementary students. I laughed a lot, I’m not going to lie. Well, I find out during this class period that my class is canceled for next Thursday. That’s awesome because that’s an 8 AM class. Yes, the day looked to be progressing well…

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