After School & Summer
By: Compubomb @ Jun 13, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
So, I've finished school for the semester, now already out of class for almost 2 weeks and getting
bored. I finished the semester with 3 A's and 1 B: Differential Equations 4th Semester Calculus [A],
Physics 202 Electricity & Magnetism [B], Java2 [A], Data Structures & Algorithms [A]. I felt
pretty good about the semester. I did however feel as though I learned nothing though in my software
courses as my Math & Physics class I believed were quite demanding on my brain. I guess when you
have to deal with complicated subjects your brain puts to the side other complicated subjects and
you start to realize you cannot enjoy them all with the same enthusiasm. Now all I have to do is
take Linear Algebra to transfer to 4 year university.
I've decided that I will
try to attempt to learn the programing language Python, and while I'm at it, I installed Ubuntu 8.04
64bit as to keep me more focused on my objectives. When I run windows, I don't know, it keeps me
from programing as much as I'd like to. It's as if windows XP is distracting me so much that I don't
want to do anything. Who knows, maybe the whole OS stifles innovation in how much it keeps you from
doing things. So now I'm running Ubuntu and I've figured out how to configure most of the things I
want.
As of late, I've been playing around with Komodo Edit 4.2--I couldn't find
a 64bit 4.3 version--and I have to say that I'm quite happy with it. I love how it has amazing
auto-complete functionality for not only php and python, but also for Javascript. It is rather
light-weight as compared to say Aptana, which runs on top of Eclipse and we all know that Eclipse is
a beast compared to the gecko engine that Komodo runs on.