{"id":2214,"date":"2003-07-30T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T04:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/07\/30\/programming-on-the-left-side-of-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2003-07-30T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T04:45:31","slug":"programming-on-the-left-side-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/07\/30\/programming-on-the-left-side-of-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming on the Left Side of the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried writing with my left hand today.  It was a result of trying to eat and program at the same time.  <\/p>\n<p>It looks like its written by a first grader, although I don&#8217;t know very many first graders with the logical skills to be able to program ANSI C, maybe Basic or Logo, but defiantly not ANSI C.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a huge muddle with SpamFolderManger.  I&#8217;ve honestly never dealt with a project of this breadth and modularity.  Honestly I&#8217;m really a Applesoft BASIC programmer who has just transplanted himself to ANSI C.  This is the first time I&#8217;ve actually tried programming like a C programmer and I&#8217;m well lost.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a bunch of functions lying around and well eventually they should be able to be properly stitched together to create a functional program.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of sessions with my mother when she&#8217;d have all the pieces for her quilt covering the floor and she&#8217;d be attempting to figure out what was wrong in her cutting so she could piece the whole mess of fabric together properly to come out with a quilt.  She always used to be so methodical and graph the whole quilt out and figure out what she had to do.<\/p>\n<p>I know I need to create a &#8220;map&#8221; of this program for myself, so I know which way is up and how I need to proceed.  I feel like I&#8217;ve been given a hot skillet on a stove without a handle, and I&#8217;m having to figure out how to build a handle onto this.   Its probably something like molecular chemistry.  (Wait, thats redundant isn&#8217;t redundant?)  I remember reading about buckeyminsterfullerene in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\">Popular Science<\/a> and how they had to graph a handle on it to take a picture.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Whatever the case I&#8217;m stuck feeling really stupid and really lost.  Maybe I can learn to write with my left hand and program at the same time.  My brain needs a good work out.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course I could be boring and take my second class on programming and just stick to my right hand for writing, but that just wouldn&#8217;t be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried writing with my left hand today. It was a result of trying to eat and program at the same time. It looks like its written by a first grader, although I don&#8217;t know very many first graders with the logical skills to be able to program ANSI C, maybe Basic or Logo, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}