I am Going to Kill Myself with Poorly Written Code

2010-02-26

Recently I have been knee deep in learning ASP.NET for one of my classes. At the same time I have been attempting to pick up some Actionscript for a project at my internship. Saying it has been less than a year since I learned to code at all, and this is my first venture into object oriented and strictly typed code it has made for some long nights.

Last night I was up until about 1am working on some Actionscript for the Flash project at my internship.Figuring out how code works on Flash's timeline has been trial by fire as well. Last night I struggled with getting a Flash movie to play backwards and as the function ran back through the time line they would run over other functions that would execute, functions that wern't supposed to execute and had no approprate termination for the time in which they launched, causing them to run forever, in an infinite loop. Realizing what was going on I had an idea how to fix it, but decided to wait for the next day until I try to actually fix it.

At about 6 am I startle myself awake, woken by a nightmare. My dreaming mind had convinced me that if I accidently wrote an infinite loop, I wouldn't wake up. I'm not sure if my subconcious thought that I was programing my alarm clock and it would fail to wake me for work, or if I was actually programing my brain and if I accidently put in an infinite loop I would be stuck in sleep mode forever. Either way, I was too scared to fall back asleep.

Apparently my brain is not wired correctly to cope with coding.

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