Week 8, Day 15(Combining PHP and SQL)

We've started combining sql with our php to create databases and use them with my php sites. Originally I liked the php syntax but now it seems to have gotten a bit complicated, although more useful. I am keeping up but not sure how much I'm retaining along the way. I guess only the future will tell. Shining moment was getting adminer up and running because it's way more convenient than using the command prompt in my opinion.

Week 7, Day 13(Frustrated)

Well this week and weekend I had a little trouble cleaning up my personal php site and I think their is some confusion on my grades and submissions. I feel like all this different due dates and submission types for everything is really confusing me, and the stress of having missed so much stuff while I was dropped has become very frustrating. I don't really have much else to say....

Week 6, Day 10(Mostly Caught Up!)

I managed to catch up on most of my assignments but assignment 5 was giving me some trouble. Adding a config.php with dynamic links seems to have thrown everything out of wack. I'm going to take another look at it tonight since my issue may have been that I tried to catch up on everything I missed over the last weekend and I think my brain may have gotten a little overworked. I'm going to pick a classmates brain and see if that helps also. Otherwise I'm enjoying all the dynamics of PHP.

Week 5, Day 9(I'm Back!)

I'm back! I managed to get back into all my classes and while I'm a little behind I'm pretty confident I can catch up. Missing any time in ITC 240 means I've missed a whole lot of work so I'll have a busy weekend ahead of myself. I also attended Hacker News (a start-up event) yesterday (2/5/2014) and have been inspired to work on an app for a game (Guild Wars 2) that I enjoy playing as well as to dive into more depth on a project for my brothers lab to create a GUI to interface with the R scripts he has written. being back in classes is kinda feeling like a second chance that I don't want to spoil.

Week 5, Day 8(Catch-up)

For a second there I thought there was no way I was going to get back into classes but my dad offered to pay if my funding doesn't come through so now I am frantically trying to catch up on all my work. I'll likely work late into the night watching class videos and completing assignments. Hopefully Bill(my teacher) will allow me to do some extra credit for the assignments I couldn't turn in while my canvas was suspended. I look forward to being back!

P.S. Splitting up the header/footer/etc into different php files was awesome to learn. Now I can keep my pages way more organized and easily consistent.

Week 4, Day 6(Funding)

Soooooooo, as it turns out I was dropped from my classes because my funding didn't go through. The earliest appointment I could get with my counselor is next Tuesday which is a little later than I like but that's how it goes. Meanwhile I am going to be watching the class videos and just keeping up with as much class work as I can. A lot of it I wont be able to submit due to my canvas access being cut off but hopefully I can work something out with my teachers later.

P.S. I am a little frustrated

Week 3, Day 5(Vacation)

This is an interesting week to be doing homework since I'm in Belize. One thing I have discovered is that Belize has a horrible internet structure and my connection is horrible at best (reminds me of dial-up). I managed to get online and start working on my video assignment on an IPad. Since the internet here is unreliable it took me a long time to watch the videos but at least I had ample time to answer the questions while waiting for the videos to buffer/load. Shortly after finishing my assignment I noticed that I can no longer log into canvas and see my classes. After some research I learned that I had been dropped from all my classes (whoopie!). I've emailed my instructors and my financial aid counselor to see what's going on but I doubt I can resolve this completely from Belize. Hopefully this can get resolved quickly so I can get back to classes.