Broadway Provides the Mantras

"Purpose... it keeps you going strong, like a car with a full tank of gas"
- Avenue Q

Which holds true here,
I haven't seen much purpose to my coding endeavors, and they have thus ground to a halt, in lieu of some networking explorations. I've installed wireshark, to help see what's goin' on in my own home network. I've been running my internet through a proxy server on my linux box, and been doing some IRC stuff, just recreational.

I'm considering dual-booting Linux on my macbook to take advantage of the wifi, so I can use something like Kismet to watch the wireless traffic in my home network.

However, hopefully I will pick up some sort of challenge website to give me tasks for Python, C++, maybe a little Java or Assembler.

But as of now... I have not done anything productive, really.

Languages and Syntax and Fun

In an attempt to learn the inner workings of my computer more thoroughly, I have begun a journey towards learning Assembly code.

And subsequently, in an attempt not to cut off my hands, I have been playing with Python, my love.

I was given a seminar by a very interesting Computer Science Professor from Quinnipiac University the other day. It was very enlightening and enjoyable. He suggested using Ruby, which I have heard frequently. My only impression of the language is that it is a good scripting and server language, and is close to Python. It may be something to look into.

All is well.

Some Slight Observations

Just an observation I have made recently:

I have decided to pick up Java, just a little bit. I am interested in writing web applets, so my friends can really see my progress and such. I'd love to show off, honestly.

And I just observed how easy it is to pick up this new language, compared to when I was first learning C++, even though I had already done some python programming.

I know this is no new breakthrough in theory of learning, but I felt like backing it up with my own testimonial, also I felt like keeping this blog alive. It is very important to me.

I still need to figure out the formatting problem in the previous post.
However, it is not a large problem, because I have thrown out that program and I am planning out a much larger project along the same lines (just an assortment of physics calculation tools).