The past two weeks are really a mix of different taste: dream, desperation, tiredness, sleeplessness, and hope. Never have experience so much within two weeks time, only my cs3216 fellows can understand this. Quite funny, we seldom meet with each other during weekdays, but everybody is doing the same weird thing, playing apps during lectures, writing code in tutorials and skipping ******. Every time, when my group leaves COM1 at about 1am, we can meet another group of guys working in the basement.

Humm, life of a facebook application is really not that easy. I never expect myself to learn so much stuff in the first two weeks of a semester. Also, because of this killing assignment, I make friends with bunch of smart people. Here I really want to give my sincere thanks to Zheng Yang, who gives me hope when I was desperate. The greatest thing about him is not merely helping us building the app, but also the willingness and commitment to stay with us to build our dreams. =)

Back to the lecture itself, WPF and Silverlight demos are very cool. Xbox is also very impressive, I have to admit that, although I am not a gamer. Imagine Cup is interesting, cause some of the categories require both software and hardware development in which I can touch my favouite two subjects programming and physics.

Em... not sure about what kind of thing I am going to do in the future. But I am sure that if I can find the right teammates we can build something pretty COOL~

Now is 5pm, many cs3216 fellows are still working at com1. Maybe we can hold a Chinese New Year party tomorrow. :p

Happy 牛 year and all the best to our apps!

Wow, the most exciting and scaring first lecture I have ever had. Of course, the cool, crazy, evil or whatever professor plays the most important part. However I have already spent a semester with him in cs1101s, kind of used to that.

I like the first lesson. It gives me a clear view about what we are going to build for the next 12 weeks. I know the programming part is not very hard but still needs lots of effort to learn the necessary things. After applying for this course, I have tried many apps. Frankly speaking, I do not like playing games very much. Having tried so many apps, I can feel the key things that make an app popular may not be the fancy features or good looking. The most important part is easy to understand and use. Being a programming person myself, I don’t like apps with lengthy How to play explanation. Sometimes it is the easy and simple app that attracts people during the short break of daily work.

Understanding this helps me to design my own app. I have some ideas but, unfortunately, there are already similar apps existing in facebook and they are much better than what I can build. So I am still in the process of brainstorming.

Any particularly memorable things?

What doesn’t kill you makes you strong!

I’ve heard this sentence several times from Prof Ben and probably will repeat it myself more frequently in the future. Another sentence that I like very much is from Randy Pausch

Don’t complain, just work harder.

Anyway, very happy to meet the seniors in this class and hope to have a good time working with them.