What? It was US-EAST-1 again? Nobody could have seen that coming.

WGU states that all "refunds will be processed within 10 business days." Bruh, my first grant hit on August 1, and y'all haven't refunded shit. At this point, I don't believe the Pell grant is real. I'm just glad my work is covering the core tuition, so I know my stuff is paid for, at least.

This is quite possibly the first time I have heard Unisys mentioned in at least two decades, and I suddenly feel very old.

Excited to see my course material referencing PyCharm. JetBrains supremacy!

"The course is provided by zyBooks." We meet again ...

I'd like to thank C++ for being the only conceivable reason I made 50% on my Java pre-test, considering I have never touched Java (aside from Minecraft mods) in my entire life.

How close I am to my associate's degree. I start WGU on August 1st, then I'll be reverse transferring the rest to finish it off. Depending on how quickly I learn Java, this means I could in fact have my degree by the end of the year. From there, I just focus on my bridge BS/MS program at WGU!

And this is exactly why I’m on my own PDS.

Help I can't decide if I want my Master's focus to be DevOps (which I love) or Domain-Driven Design (which I have a lot of interest in, but very little experience with) I have time, but I need to decide because it affects what courses I take.. as I'm starting a hybrid BS/MS program at WGU on 08/01!

I just want to give Petlibro a shoutout because their latest firmware update to the water fountain fixed the only issue I had with it. Excellent work, engineering team! Oh and it’s on prime day discount ATM (not a sponsored link, just genuinely love the product) a.co/d/hy7GTXu

Been so focused on school that I almost missed WWDC! Firing up the AppleTV today to catch up!

The irony of GitHub requiring me to PRINT my college transcript to renew my student discount because they suddenly don’t know what a PDF is 🤦

I forget if I ever posted this but my final grades for the semester posted — I did in fact finish C++ with a 4.0. 🙌 That was probably the hardest college semester of my life (at least until calculus), but *I DID IT*!!

ITT: how to make a long post within the character limit of Bluesky

Honestly, I’m seeing now that my difficulties with recursion are directly related to my difficulties with math. I have reached the part in learning to code where I need to take a step back, play with Swift instead of learning new stuff, and focus on leveling up my math skills before fall semester.

Apparently, my final is only two hours, not three. Frak. Thankfully, I did well enough this semester that even if I fail it, I pass the course. That won’t help me in a real world work environment, though. I still need to master recursion and pointers. The rest of my basics are solid.

94% on second exam. I can officially fail the final and still pass C++. Note to self: don’t kill myself next week studying Will still study of course bc this is my future, but the exam ITSELF shouldn’t be a stressor. That said, I still have a chance at an A for the course… maybe.

When gamers take C++ notes. @beccadax.com will get it, if nobody else does 😂

Nervous. Finals next week. I'm finally getting a handle on pointers, but now they've thrown recursion at us at the last minute. ... I don't think I'm gonna master this in a week :( #SWEstudent #C++ #Programming

TFW you open up an app you started last week going "yay i started this early so all i have to do is finish it by tonight" and it's just an empty main function and a bunch of pseudocode. whooops.

That awkward moment when you're halfway through writing an app and you suddenly think of a way to refactor it. Welp, here we go.

structs in c++ feel almost TOO easy after all of that wrangling of pointers. They're.. not unlike structs in Swift (at least at my level. differences may show up later.)

After a review like this, I'm actually quite proud of myself for still having an A average. To be fair, yes, I'm struggling -- but I'm still squeaking by. www.ratemyprofessors.com/rating/34819...

Oh good, I'm glad she explained that toupper() won't give me an uppercase exclamation mark. .... what the heck would an uppercase exclamation mark even look like, if it COULD????

"In the real world you're going to do X, but in this class we aren't going to bother with that." MISS, I am paying you to *prepare me for the real world.*

Using Java is like:

Weekly petition to make Pearson's CodeGrade give useful error messages instead of doing silly things like "Hey I was able to verify that the array you created looks how it should, but I don't see any proof you actually created an array, so you fail."

My most active #programming day last year was Mon Apr 8 with 9 hrs of activity via @wakatime.bsky.social wakatime.com

All that panicking over my midterm, and I made a 97%. In C++, a language I am typically *awful* at. Y'all.. I think this whole college thing is working for me.

Achievement unlocked: Pointers lecture is going too slow and I’m sitting here going “Yeah, I get it.” (In my head.. no shade if anyone else still needs it.. I was then RECENTLY) The extra studying helped, I have mastered the absolute basics - necessary to follow the harder stuff later.

It's hard to imagine my own career future when I'm the child of a man that singlehandedly saved Nokia over a million dollars on production of the Nokia 3310. The man was a literal hardware engineering savant. His boss gave a speech at his funeral about how he was literally irreplaceable.

After struggling with pointers for two weeks, C strings are a *breeze* It's all about perspective.

Really curious if we’ll ever figure out what crime he’s being accused of, or if they’re just going to be shipped to El Salvador and forgotten about.

There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer. apple.news/Aq4v8AVlQRha...

Bruh ... I just wasted 45 minutes troubleshooting this programming assignment because it apparently didn't want me to delete the dynamically allocated array when I was done with it. The textbook TOLD me to build that habit, then the auto-grader script got confused. 🤦🏼

pointers themselves? annoyingly hard. dynamic memory allocation? pretty freaking cool and somehow click better than pointers themselves. maybe i just needed to see some examples of WHY we would use pointers before it started to click.

I am probably going to spend all week watching Stanford videos on pointers in C++

Suddenly thinking of a way to refactor an app I completed 3 years ago to make it more efficient. Unfortunately, I’m no longer on the project. I could still refactor my copy, but nobody would see it 😢

My son is ten. TEN. We're already having a big debate about whether he's going to Berkley or CalTech. He obviously doesn't have to make a decision any time soon, but it's wild to me how young they're even thinking about it these days. He wants to be an engineer and he's top 1% in math scores.

Judging by the amount of people that bothered to show up to class today, it appears I'm one of the only ppl struggling with pointers. Cool, cool. No pressure. I'd like to thank Stanford for making their videos on the topic public, so I have extra study material. #SWEstudent

Now I feel like an underachiever for just throwing my PDS on DigitalOcean LOL

I love this perspective on the high level design thinking for the AT Proto. I hope this deck gets posted; it’s a great primer on why and how all this [waves hands vaguely] works behind the scenes. @dholms.xyz at #ATmosphereConf

"If you see someone else building the same thing, don't worry, we don't have just one JavaScript framework" ❤️ #AtmosphereConf

Help pointers are breaking my brain .. again.

Spring break? May as well learn Jenkins. 🤷🏼 I'll get back to C++ and pointers next week. #SWEstudent #CSMajor

don't forget to vibe security audit your vibe code

Pointers, we meet again. Prepare to Cannot access memory address 0x4e2801d8

OK Khan Academy is pretty cool, actually. I'm taking quizzes to find my weak spots in pre-algebra before I start college algebra in June.

They say it all the time, but I don't think it sticks for a lot of us. Networking is *integral* to furthering a career effectively.. and it goes further than just adding people on LinkedIn. I just reached out to an old manager and tbh I may not hear back bc we hadn't spoken in two years.

Have you ever been so in the zone that you accidentally completed an app? .... I guess I'm going to throw in some input validation, then, because I don't want to be done yet!