One Less Issue

During Thanksgiving break my uncle came back over to my house and helped me work on my previously broken computer one last time. It never had a certain diagnosis, but we suspected it had something to do with either the hard drive or the motherboard (each being relatively new hardware). After connecting a different hard drive to the SATA, we saw that the BIOS couldn't detect anything. So, we connected my old hard drive, and miraculously, the machine woke up from its slump. Now it works normally, but it still leaves me to wonder why the computer stopped working in the first place. Naturally, I'm a little apprehensive about the chance that it could fail again, but I'm just glad I got it working again.

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11/11 - [ma][trix]

Last week my class reviewed the concept of a matrix and how it relates to computer science. To put it simply, its just an array with an extra dimension, and it holds data just like anything else. The lab we got would've been a challenge, except for the fact that I had a partner. Ironically, we were flying through lab until we got to the part where I had to read in a file and apply our object. The program we made actually solves a crossword puzzle, although as of now it can only find words across a row (forwards and backwards). My partner and I should finish the rest easily, and hopefully find diagonal words too.

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I've Got Issues

I woke up after a surprisingly busy Saturday this weekend and immediately went to go turn on my computer (the one that I built last year that is now running Linux). Now, I hadn't actually turned it on in a few days because of my busy schedule, but when I did, it couldn't chug through the routine memory check. If you don't know anything about computers, you should know about the memory check that happens right after powering-on, because its pretty dang important. So important, in fact, that without it, the computer is rendered almost completely useless. So there you go. My computer is pretty much broken right now. Luckily, my uncle happened to be visiting at my house on Sunday (the tech-savy one), and I immediately requested his assistance. After a very, very painful trial-and-error process, we came to the conclusion that the computer's hard drive totally snapped, figuratively. My uncle said he will be back soon enough with a different hard drive that I can use, but until then, well, I guess its not that much of a big deal.

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10/28 - member or method

So last class we learned about arrays, which aren't all that complicated. To me, they are just strings consisting of data types besides chars. But the one thing that doesn't exactly make sense (besides java itself), is members. My teacher explained them to be the counterparts of methods( ) to use for arrays, but I still don't get why they are called differently from methods. Also, I wish I could write a program to make a blog post for me, because I often run out of ideas. The six weeks test is coming up. If it is anything like the quizzes then I will be in a shallow pit of trouble.

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