June 17

Last day of culminating and the year. It feels great to finally put this class behind me and I only have a little bit of culminating to finish. I can only hope that I will do well on the exam.

June 16

Day 14 culminating. I am almost done what needs to be done. Mr. Arkin was away today and as such I couldn`t ask him for help. I will tomorrow.

June 15

Day 13 Culminating, I made more progress today on my new task but the going is slow as I am having troube in certain areas that i need to fix.

June 14

Day 12  culminating, I made substantial progress yesterday night on my new Culminating and I got Mr. Arkin`s help on how to fully complete the assignment. I mad more progress today but the progress is slower than what I had previously hoped.

June 13

Day 11 Culminating, My partner did nothing over the weekend, he pretty much ignored all of my emails as well. No matter it seems like we are going to be split up as a group now and he'll be on his own. At this point I really don't care all too much. I now have to do just a small culminating involving the customer, flight and reservation classes. I now have to rush through these things.

June 10

Day 10 culminating, My patience is running thin with my partner and I have no idea what to do with him. After some consideration I am giving him one last chance over the weekend to hopefully do something, that he clearly didn't do yesterday even after I told him that I was going to the Athletic Banquet and as such cannot do anything that night. No matter speaking of the Athletic Banquet I won not on but two awards, I got MVP of the 15's rugby team and MIP of the Hockey team. Both of these awards really struck me out of left field, I had no idea what so ever. I'm pretty tired from last night as I got home at around 12 because I bused back with my friend.

June 9

Day 9 culminating much of the same is going on with myself doing the load of the work while my partner sits at his computer doing anything but being useful. It is going on 2 days since I told him to do a simple task. As is pretty evident in my writing I'm getting pretty pissed with him. Anyhow on a brighter note the Athletic Banquet is tonight and it appears that its going to be pretty great. I can wait to see who wins what awards this year and I also can't help but feel a little hope that I might win one too.

June 8

Day 8, much more work continued today as the culminating in itself is almost over I still feel as if we are more than a little behind though. Also today I fixed a problem I was having with my frequency count assignment.

June 7

Day 7 of the culminating, we continued working on the culminating today and it appears that we are making good progress. I can only hope that it continues. We had to make a few changes in the direction that our logic was going today and I'm hoping that they will greatly benefit us. I only hope as of now though that we aren't going to fall behind in the coding aspect of this assignment.

June 6

Day 6 of Culminating, after a weekend of hard work it seems as if I am back to the grind once again. I handed in the first part of the Culminating today and Mr. Arkin said that there were only little grammar errors in it. Also though we needed to add some more descriptions to the 3rd part where we describe our code. This part needs to have more of a knows it's parts and also needs to show what it is being connected to. I hope to finish that part tonight if my schedule permits.

June 3

Day 5 of culminating, today was a very productive day in which I basically completed the first step. I was slightly surprised to learn that the deadlines for each part were very much so important, I had previously thought that they were instead used as a basic planner that we were to follow. Unfortunately the submission needs to follow guidelines and I will have to account for those later today at home. My partner was also revealed today to have no clue of how to do basically anything that we were supposed to be learning this year and I may have to do all of the programming myself.  My weekend is set to be as busy as possible with me working at least 15 hours, at least I will be making a substantial amount of money though.

June 2

Day 4 of culminating, My lack of time available for work is really not helping today as I had little to no time to do anything culminating related. I can only hope, in vain, that my partner at least did something more useful than class today. I feel that he is focusing to much on the minuscule details and as such limiting his progression or maybe he is slow. No matter I can only hope that tomorrow's class is more productive than today and I can finish the first step. 

June 1

Day 3 of Culminating. I am having some difficulty dealing with the specifications of the assignment based upon all the variables that need to be accounted for in each stage of the planning. My partner is once again researching very little and progressing at a pace that is more than a little slow. I also am trying to finish any outstanding work I still haven't finished as I am still having some problems with the frequency project and Mr. Arkin is almost saying a different thing to do everyday, it is very confusing.

May 31

Day 2 of culminating and I now have a basic idea of what exactly needs to be accomplished. My partner as of yet hasn't proven to be much use than as a researcher. The difficulty with this project it seems is going to be with my extremely busy schedule and trying to make time to do all 3 of my culminating activities along with regular classes and a work schedule. I hope I end up succeeding and cannot wait until this is over.

May 30

Today we were given our Culminating Activity and it looked daunting to say the least. It seems as if this project is going to take many hours to finish and more to do so well. I cannot pretend to be particularly happy about my partner as he was chosen by a system of elimination. The other groups it seems were formed too fast for me to process and I was stuck with someone who I'm not entirely sure will be of great use based upon his meager understanding of the concepts that are going to be required. No matter what's done is done and I hope that I do well in this project. 

May 27

The day of Prom, my teachers had essentially straight out said not to come today and I decided that I could do what I need to do at school at home so I stayed home. I got some much needed rest as I believe that I have been overstretched with almost too many commitments.

May 26

Some unforeseen problems came up today and as such I missed class.

May 25

We dissected a Stack class today made by Mr. Arkin and while initially complicated it seems like the stack class will be pretty straight forward. We also got a handout on Exceptions and the concept behind it seemed smart and like a damn good idea. I continued work on Frequency counter as well, it really doesn' want to be completed it seems.

May 24

The weekend was great as it allowed me to recover from the stresses of schoolwork for a rather long period of time. I did more work on my FrequencyCount assignment today in class that persists in being a pain in my ass. Also we learned about Stacks today in class they seemed fairly straight forward to implement and at first sight don't appear to have the same sort of trouble attached to them as frequency. Also we learned of Reverse Polish Calculators today, the concept seems a little radical compared to the standard, and I can see why the didn't catch on.

May 20

I started to once again work on the FrequencyCount assignment today as I felt that I really need to hurry up and get this done. The lack of progress in the right direction in this project by my fellow classmates has me slightly worried on the difficulty of this project. I ran into a lot of errors today but I did feel like I learnt something.

May 19

I completed more work today on the perfect example of the Linked List that we needed to have. The end of year rush is beginning to creep up on me as the work load in each class seems to increase everyday. The stress is building.

May 18

Mr. Arkin returned today with an example of exactly how to do the program. I was disappointed to see that I had been going in the wrong direction and as such needed to completely reprogram my program. I spent the entire period doing this.

May 17

Once again Mr. Arkin was absent today. I made some more progress on the Linked List sorter that was a quiz question and I feel that what I have is a generally good try at solving the problem and presenting a working solution.

May 16

Mr. Arkin was absent today as such we had a work period. I felt that I made some significant progress this period.

May 13

So I came to class today and was informed of the quiz I had missed, I think I may have been sick on second thought, and I found out later from Mr. Arkin that everyone did very poorly on it. Instead of working on Frequency count today everyone was tasked with completing the quiz by trying to code it as an assignment instead. I once again know what to do but not exactly how to do it yet.

May 12

There was a quiz in class today that I missed and I can't remember why I missed it... seems like it will remain a mystery to me.

May 11

We received the text files that we will need for our Frequency Count assignments today and to put it bluntly it pretty damn big. 8.9 Mb to be exact, while size shouldn't matter in the case of the Counter. It certainly counts against the RAM in this old dinosaurs which we use in school, these dells are clearly bad as the file alone takes ages just to open, imagine how long it must be to actually run them in Dr. Java. I started some review on Bufferedreaders today as it will be vitally important in the coming future. I almost finished the Linked List class.

May 10

I made more progress on the Linked List class today even though I should be on the Frequency Count today. The time until exams seems to get infinitely smaller ever day...

May 9

Today we began on a new project the frequency count project. Unfortunately I need to put this on the back burner for a while as I finish up on other previous assignments. The concept behind this project seems pretty sound to me and I have a basic idea of what needs to be done but no exact idea of the how part. Hopefully I can finish up my Linked  List class so I can get to this project.