reorientation

Phew, the spring semester just ended. It was definitely more work than I had anticipated, and with my usual disorganization, my daily and routine schedule was completely destroyed.

So now that I've "sort-of" settled in my new abode, it's time to start over and reconstruct the broken schedule I had for the past few weeks: turning my biological clock back by a few hours so as to resume what a normal person should have. Because of that, I would really appreciate the summer classes starting next week, since I tend to lose track of time when I have no deadlines.

A goal that I set myself for this summer is to learn C++, for real this time. There is actually a need to do so in order to work on a certain research project, so there is no excuse this time. I had avoided it for long enough, and now it's time to embrace it. I understand that it will be much harder to learn than Python or C#, but I expect it to be a fruitful effort, considering so many programs are written in C/C++ nowadays.

One of the tough decisions is to select the programming framework. I would really want to learn one for Unix, but so far my main focus must be MFC (i.e. Windows) because that's what the current program is written in. Perhaps if I'm ambitious, I could try rewriting it for Unix, or even better, for a more generalized interface so that it works on all platforms. That would be a difficult task though. Regardless, I hope I would at least accomplish the "learn C++" part.