Wednesday, April 11, 2007

New Stuff.... I Guess

So another update.. these are getting more spread out as i get more involved in doing work here.

So the rest of the week went OK.. took my tests... passed my tests... did my project... (hopefully passed my project).
I say hopefully because it was me and 3 Indians. They did this for all the Americans and stuck them with a group of Indians. So we split up our project. After about half an hour one of my group members offers me my portion of code. I was taken back asking if they had did it already. Turns out they have all of the previous batches projects. Kinda cheap so i refused and did my own (better practice this way anyway). It was a easy project and so time came for our assessment by a worker. Keep in mind I had the last portion of the project. He goes through the first part real thoroughly and finds all these mistakes and asks the member what they did. Well they didn't know.. then he gets to my part and does one error check and it passes and that's it. He then checks our code for neatness and efficiency. He looks at mine first and in about 10 seconds goes to the next one. Of course the Indians have sloppy long code and he grills them and they have no clue what their own code does (probably because they copied it). So hopefully we get a decent grade.
We finish up with HTML,CSS, and JavaScript and start the next topic of Java. The first few days are pretty easy as it goes over the basics of Java which is similar to C++. This is a 5 day lecture course and another 2 days go towards the project. So right now we just got our projects and i wont be making the same mistake in letting them do the 1st parts and i will integrate everything on my comp so i can fix their code and grill them before the instructor does.

So the weekend was OK. I went to the zoo which was pretty cool. I have pics but its dumb to put them up because they are animals that you see in the zoo. Also this weekend was a "big" craft fair that we went too.. It blew.... nothing but junk and it wasn't as big as people were saying. On Sunday the President of India came to Infosys to give a speech. So they shut off our Internet Saturday night until Sunday night... which boggled my mind. He was supposed to go up and speak at 3:30 so we got there at 3:15. 3:45 we were thirsty only to realize everything had closed down because of the President's visit.. so we have to sit out in the heat without any beverages... real cool (sarcasm)! 4:15 still no president so we decide to bail cause we were angered because of the drink situation, the time situation, Internet situation, and all the Indians had umbrellas to cover them from the sun and they blocked our view.. how rude... so we went to the fair instead. The people who stayed said it was weird cause he was like a cult leader making everyone repeat after him... riiiight.
Otherwise that is pretty much it! This weekend we need to leave Mysore cause we have exhausted everything there is to do around here.