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Hmmm, glad this blog isn’t one of those Tamagochi things… I would most definately killed it by now…

Well, I’ve been somewhat busy of late, with both the soft 131 and idat102 projects both having to be handed-in, one after the other. Both work well, so it’s kewl in that respect, but then again, there’s always something more you’d like to have done to it, or something that you only think of when it’s been handed in! That’s true of both of the hand ins, but what’s done is done now, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things go.

I’ve severely screwed my body clock/ eating habbits/ flat in the process of the last week’s work… Hmmm, no immediate deadlines for now, so may attempt to restore normality this week… We’ll so how it goes eh?

idat 102

hmm, well deciding that I was going to give the idat 102 project a nice healthy start today, I decided last night, not to go out and ‘party the night away’, so that I could wake up all nice and refreshed, clear headed and get cracking with some code. This plan only kind of worked…

I did the silly thing of looking over the brief last night before I went to bed. Lo and behold I as up til 4 this morning, having scribbled down ideas for content, layout, features and functionality.

 D’oh, so  much for the early night! Not put off by the late night I woke at around 10-ish milled around for a while, and went back to my scribblings, refined them, and then decided to think about what aspects, of which code, would best suit my desired outcomes. I decided that I wasn’t properly clued-up on the ‘optimal’ approach, and having consulted w3c.com, I decided to go and see if Waterstones ahd the book that our lecturer recommended for JavaScript. I also thought I’d buy a book on CSS as well, so that I knew each’s strenghts and weeknesses.

Oh.

 My.

 God.

 The book recommended (JavaScript- The Definative Guide) made my eyes bleed. One well aimed swipe with this book to someone’s head, would cleave it clean off. It’s HUGE!  I decided I was too scared to read that one today, and instead, stuck with the CSS book I got (Cascading style sheets- The Designer’s Edge) which was to all intents and purposes quite informative. Although I think some of the referecing is wrong?!?!? I followed it well and it’s given me some more  GUI ideas that I’d like to implement to the project.

Ho-hum, I’m gonna try and get some sleep now… may take the JavaScript book to read in bed…. Looks like the type of book that (depending on your current mood) will either knock you straight to sleep, or keep you engrossed for hours… I’m hoping on the fromer.

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Woot

well good…. I’ve just found out my result for my in-class test for VB. I got the rough equivalent of a 2:1!! well good! Thing is, if I’d got something like one mark more, I’d have got a first!!!

Well good, but annoying at the same time!! lol Well, it’s a good start I suppose…. I’ve got to keep this up though, if I’m going to beat my Sis and Dad…. both of whom got 2:1’s =0