This week went on smoothly to an extend of dullness. Time issue was the one to catch me at many moments.

I’m still learning C, along with that I’ve downloaded video podcasts from iTunes U of Standford’s iPhone Programming course. Too many things to understand, though. I’m not quite familiar with Object-Oriented Programming paradigm, still some ideas seemed to make sense.

My theatre work is on its peak. Truly. I feel that my performance is enjoyed by many little souls, and they in turn give their trust and love. This is a rare thing to happen, and I’m glad it happens this many times.

Bad thing: I’ve got a flu. My nose is running, my head bubbles, and throat hurts a bit too. Good thing: Monday and Tuesday are day-offs! I believe this would help to fix my health.

Today is Orthodox Easter, so Happy Holiday!

It took a long evening to finish and polish my C exercise. The task was to create a program, that would count lengths of words in a text, and then show a histogram of those lengths (how many 1-letter words, 2-letter words, … 20-letter words, and so on).

I’ve enjoyed programming this task, even though it was hard. The most difficult part was to draw the actual histogram right. Some three hours later I’ve finally figured out the right algorithm! The polishing part began. After another half an hour my program could actually do a simple analysis of any given text, according to the task.

  Another great thing, that occurred to me just today was the name for my first yet-to-be-written iPhone app. Sorry, folks, but I’m going to hold this off one for a while, just to take care of corresponding domain names!

And the last thing. I’m currently enjoying the new apps for the Mini. The results of this enjoyment you can see right away. The app is called ‘Picturesque’, and all the images of this post were made by this remarkable little image manipulator!

So, a week passed by since I’ve started learning the basics of C, the programming language. I’m studying it all by myself, with the best book available on this topic, the second edition of ‘The C Programming Language’ by Kernighan & Ritchie.

The book is truly a classic masterpiece, for it has set me going with programming in just a day! I’ve learned syntax, inner structure, variables definition, operators, commands and so on. Some functions as ‘printf()’ or ‘while’ statement were already familiar to me, others weren’t. I did a few sample codes, worked them through, and did all assignments to this point.

I’m on page twenty-five right now, and it introduces the arrays, an essential stone in the building of programming. I’m going to stop for a day or two, and then continue where I left.

I knew it. I’ve always known it. WordPress engine is designed to run in a Safari environment!

For the first time I’m running Safari on my Mac Mini and posting this note. It looks seamless! Just as if WP was developed by Apple. The style, the feel & the look, the thought-out details, all are in place!

I did some rearrangements (mainly bookmarks transfers), and now I will be posting from the Mini, as well as from my netbook.