Latest program is due tomorrow night. Talking about strings today.
Went to Fry’s to get some stuff to help me fix Brandyburg’s and the Chamberlains’ computers. Should make the process a bit easier. I found a cheap HD enclosure for laptop drives, which will hopefully allow me to pull the data from Brandyburg’s old machine without having to install it in my machine and get it to a bootable state. Dealing with the Chamberlains’ PC is going to be a matter of backing up and reformatting, same as before. I have a few more CDRs in case I need them. I may cheat and use Brandyburg’s hard drive as a temporary storage location after saving his data, so that I can move their giant media files. Depends on how large his drive is, and how much space he has free.
There are a huge whack-load of pre-made string manipulation functions for VB. Not surprising, given how much you want to manipulate strings in actual program use.
Some of those methods clearly predate object oriented programming becoming the expected model.
I’ve come to realize I don’t like the teaching methodology of this class. A lot of it consists of the professor standing at the front of the class and going over various methods and functions we can use. That’s sort of useful, but it’s also the sort of thing we can look up ourselves in a textbook when we actually need to put it to use. Makes me thing doing more actual program assignments would have more value. More design and problem solving, less talking.