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UCF Senior Design Symposium 2012, Part 4
What's this thing? Read on to find out. (full size) Wow, we've looked at a lot of neat stuff at the SDS. There was the 10-foot plasma-guided rocket, aerodynamic farings for two bicycles, and even a...
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UCF Senior Design Symposium 2012, Part 5
Environmentalist in a suit. (full size) What do a plasma-guided rocket, aerodynamic bicycle farings, a life-size remote control and motion base, and an SUV car wash have in common? No, not that, get...
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UCF Senior Design Symposium 2012, Part 6
On a BOAT! ... Well, NEAR a boat. (full) Wait, part 6? I never thought I'd get that many. On the other hand, breaking the SDS into small parts was inevitable: all that awesome can't be contained in one...
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UCF Senior Design Symposium 2012, Part 7
Neatest tower defense game ever. (full size) It's been so long since I've updated, I figure I'd better jam everything else in here and move on. Part 7 of my series covering my trip to the SDS will wrap...
View ArticleNew Project in the Midst of Busy
I've won the part of Wilbur in the (somewhat) nearby Wayne Densch Performing Arts theater's production of Hairspray! First time I've been in a play since high school; I'll bet Mom will be happy I'm...
View ArticleInterview Prep Day 1: Complexity and a Card Trick
My interview contact had warned me that I would be asked about the complexity of my algorithms. I remember "big-O" notation, and I think I know how to calculate it, but just in case I checked online...
View ArticleInterview Prep Day 2: Studying and Champagne
Today I only studied a little bit. I had too much other stuff to do. But I did manage to find a nice brain teaser from GeeksForGeeks.org. Imagine a champagne pyramid, but in only two dimensions. Like...
View ArticleInterview Prep Day 3: Dynamic Programming and Pirates!
Today's studying involved "Dynamic Programming" and "Backtracking", which really turned out to be different names for little tricks I've used before in recursion. I'm going to have to look at them...
View ArticleInterview Prep Day 4: Linked Lists
I started my studying today by looking at Programming Interviews Exposed. The author indicates that linked-list problems are common in coding interviews, because they can be solved relatively quickly,...
View ArticleInterview Day 5: Flattening a Bush
Yesterday I made a linked list, in Java. Yeah, that's right. Today I'm taking on a programming problem: given a doubly-linked list (with head and tail), where any element may have a child...
View ArticleInterview Day 6: Unflattening a Bush
Oh, great. Yesterday I flattened a bush; today you want me to un-flatten it? This is going to require a bit of recursion, I can just tell. That's fine, I love recursion. I kept all the child pointers...
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My Creation Lives! And Dies.
What could it be? What's this collection of PVC parts? Here's a hint: I used it when I played Wilbur in Hairspray. The other actors kept calling me a "real-life Wilbur".Continue reading "My Creation...
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23rd Anniversary? PVC!
Cut down to sizeBeautiful model showing off the finished project Gotta love mitre saws. Chopped the crappy fixtures off that old cannon in no time at all. Then I bought actual Schedule-40 fittings from...
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Just One More Thing Before I Go
For the Kindergarteners.What is wrong with me? Can I not even visit Florida without building something? This one is meant for a Kindergarten drama class. It's the little brother of the air cannon I...
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Seattle Side Benefits
First Fresh! I just moved in to the house at Maple Valley. It's a 2-hour commute, including all the walking, but I've started carpooling with a guy who drives a Leaf (squee!). Unfortunately, having no...
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