Well, um, I'm not really sure what to say. From what I had been hearing the last part of this assignment was supposed to be more difficult? I guess having taken Comp Sci II I'm in better standing for serialization, or at least the application of it. This entire assignment quite literally took me no more than about 30 minutes if you add the times together, mostly because I forgot to bring my notes on how the files were arranged, and I mistakenly started changing the order of both the constructors initialization lines AND the actual order of the constructor's passed parameters. That was FUBAR.
That's the thing about programming, no matter how good you get, now matter how hard you focus and try, you are going to most definitely hit snags in your work. After contacting my good friend David about my difficulties (at one point I couldn't even get my breakpoints to trigger?) I realized my mistakes, rectified them and quickly re-adjusted, and finished off strongly.
Now I kind of wished that Professor Keenan had given us something a little more challenging such as serializing dynamically allocated data structures?
Of course that's probably wisely saved for another stage in the class. As long as you understand the simple, small things, you can understand the working of a more complex beast. As long as you aren't thrown to the beast, first, you will always stand a very good chance.
So... how 'bout that weather?
-Kevin
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