After a few sleepless nights (few? yes! see the title, please), here I am, again in the nearest cyber cafe from my studio at Thessaloniki, Greece. I have just submitted an assignment very close to the deadline. What’s more is that the assignment is the only assignment of the module, and the module is a coursework module. So, to cut this unintelligible story short, to pass the module I would have to succeed in doing the assignment, the only assignment. See the importance of this assignment?
The assignment was to build a network-connect four game with Java. What? That’s not so hard isn’t it? It is not supposed to be too hard. But try to do it with such pressure in just a few days. In a new, unfamiliar, environment. Without previous experience of network programming (OK, had one back then in my second or third year of university, that’s four or five years ago, after that: nothing, zip, nada). Of course, my work is far from perfect, but I am at least relieved, because yesterday I still haven’t done the networking part (with all of the sockets and threads). I swear by the downloadable Java tutorial and Java documentations in Windows Help format (Java API in CHM file) and Parallels Desktop (why there’s still no CHM reader for Mac OS X that can open 50MB-or-so-file easily?)
Hi, my name is Raiza.
And I am a deadliner, still.
And definitely a novice programmer, darn it.
(Check out the picture, the deadline was at 10 PM GMT [since the assignment was given in Reading], which is an assumption because the teacher only told us that the deadline is at 10 PM, and I submitted my work at around 11 PM local Greek time)
Thank you for everyone who have given me support, you know who you are. I still remember my brother’s words, “Don’t give up.” And according to Bayu, when the deadline is approaching, everything becomes “much clearer.”
