I have found my focus again when it comes to android programming and started to work on a simple little game. It is a clone number puzzle game I used to play as a child on an amiga. At the time I sunk a fair amount of time into it so I figure there must be some addictive element into it. That said I will be happy if it get 3 star ratings and a 1000 downloads. I suspect my visual standards will not be that great.
I also put out a small update to DaysUntil and promptly added a Force Close to the code. For those that don't know a force close is the android name for it crashes. Oops!
I also continue a journey into lisp by continuing to watch the original structure and interpretation of computer programs over on you tube. It is fascinating to watch just to see how little we have progressed over the past 24 years. Perhaps monads to help solve the issues with pure functional languages and perhaps we empahsise more unit testing where they prefered incremental testing but I suspect in bigger systems they would have used the concept of unit testing even if they don't mention it in the lectures.
The alternative view point is perhaps they were just that far ahead of the curve. In which case I would love to know the ideas that are being taught at MIT at the moment.
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