Anyone programming on a Saturday afternoon?

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Casawi

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I am sitting coding away like that's what life is all about. It's sunny out... not so bad I guess, since I am car less.
Grad school blows.
 
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up at 8am, in at the gym at 10am, trained till 12, work at parents place, in bed by 2:30pm for 2hrs sleep :)

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Casawi

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Originally posted by: clamum
If by programming you mean drinking a beer, yes.
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Haha I am sure I will drink me some winter ale later or Jack and Coke...I was drunk last weekend and bought a 1.75L Jack bottle... Man I have been working on it all week.
Get down here and drink it with me.
 
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Casawi

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Originally posted by: Koing
up at 8am, in at the gym at 10am, trained till 12, work at parents place, in bed by 2:30pm for 2hrs sleep :)

Koing
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Nice Saturday plans.
 
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duragezic

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Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.
 
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I'll probably watch some programming on the television...does that count?
 
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Casawi

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Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.
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There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.
 
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Casawi

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
I'll probably watch some programming on the television...does that count?
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Haha there is some decent college BB games on MSU and ... I dont know.
I am going t take a break @ 4 to watch FC Barcalona (La liga soccer )
 
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Casawi

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Originally posted by: oiprocs
Yes. Well, it's MATLAB. Does that count?

And it's undergrad.
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yep counts. I ahte matlab tho... mainly cause I sucked at it.
 
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I find it not that bad because their help section is immense. Every time I code with it I use the help.
 
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duragezic

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Originally posted by: Casawi
Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.
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There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.
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Yeah, it is just this SPOT stuff is such a cohesive package. User manual, programmers guide, theory of operations, a few application notes, a dozen or so demo programs, and the API. It is all integrated nicely, so I just need Netbeans and the SpotManager tool to do everything. Then considering Java and how nice it is to program with that.

OTOH, the damn Freescale is this giant, very complex processor with a 1100 page reference manual and about two dozen other manuals, most at least a few hundred pages on the architecture. And you really do need some of those obscure details on configuring crap with registers. The development tools are pretty awful (although we are being cheap and not buying a commercial package) and from like 2000.

edit: I wish I didn't have to give it back at the end of this class. It is $550 to buy, which is too expensive for me to just buy for my own use.

 
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nageov3t

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woke up super early to take my car into the shop... spend my day at home cleaning while waiting for it to get done; just picked it up like half an hour ago ($140 for new rear breaks and an oil change?) and now I'm just debating whether to take a nap or not :p

so in short, no. :)
 
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I finished a lab for my compiler class a few minutes ago. I am messing around with some SQL queries for a project I am doing in my database class right now. Tomorrow I am going to start writing some prototype code for research I am working on. :thumbsup:
 
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Casawi

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Originally posted by: George P Burdell
I woke up, ate lunch and am now working on a C# personal project. After a while, I'll take a break and start setting this single board computer up for a project.

Originally posted by: clamum
If by programming you mean drinking a beer, yes.
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:beer: cheers!
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Umm that a nice price. I just bought a Wafer-GX for a work project last week. I should have late this week, as they had 1 to 2 weeks lead time.

That was the cheapest I found... I'll at ur closely later... I like the price.
 
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Originally posted by: Casawi
Originally posted by: duragezic
Yeah, I need to program some B-MAC protocol on these Sun SPOTs.

My guess is I'll just get started looking over documentation and whatnot, and give up. It doesn't need to be done for a few days.

My only assignments this semester is either programming this Freescale micro, or programming these Sun SPOTs. Java makes things so much easier, I always want to mess with the SPOTs, as opposed to the Freescale beast that is just way more complicated and tedious with C.
Click to expand...

There is lots of support for Java. I will choose that over C anytime.
But again sometime u just need to use C, but if you have a decent compiler and a nice IDE ...C isn't so bad.
I used Microchip MPLAB with a CCS compiler and that shit is junk. the IDe would just close and disappear sometimes !!!! yeah talk about a nice development environment.

I don't get it, how big companies like Microchip suck so bad at software. I guess its free and I can't complain too much.
They release new versions so often without fixing major problems.
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Most of the Engineers at my company program on Emacs or some other text editor. I work with a lot of different C/C++ compilers for embedded platforms and with the exception of perhaps Intel IAR, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MSVC/XCode or the old WindRiver Tornado compilers (which use IDE's), most other compilers are used via the command line. I work for a static source code analysis software that detects bugs in code so I use different compilers often.
 
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