David Oakes Learning Journal

 So now the Internet  Programming class is officially underway. And, I'll say it, I'm a little underwhelmed as to the material. It is bootstrap week for the course, so I can't be too harsh on it. I was expecting more than basic html writing however. Here's hoping things get a bit more interesting next week.

 Once again at the end of another college course. Some how this one felt like it went by the fastest so far. I wasn't expecting it to go as fast as it did, but here we are. Real grateful that the professor extended the due date for the final programming assignment to this Saturday instead of the usual Tuesday. It's a lot more headache than the previous three, despite the fact that most of my rust in python coding has been shaken off. Ah, well. Computers and programming have been like that for ages, I really don't think that's going to change anytime soon.  The orientation for the next course, Internet Programming, is also going to be this Saturday. I wonder if it's going to include any webpage authoring and html.

 I really wish I remembered to write last weeks post, but there actually wasn't all that much to write about, frankly. The only major thing that went on in our computer networks course that week was coding a simple chat room between two hosts. Equal parts fascinating and frustrating, the assignments demonstrated that network programming was just as much easy to grasp as it was migraine inducingly difficult. But, then, isn't that just programming in a nutshell? As for this week, we went over some of the internet's architecture and its quirks. One of which may be a familiar face for those who used to be a part of LAN gaming parties back in the 2000s. Much of the internet has and still is using IPv4 protocol which uses a 32-bit addressing system. 32-bits provides 4,294,967,296 unique IP addresses for devices. It seems sufficient at first glance, but 4 Billion isn't exactly a lot in the grand scheme of the world wide web. One of the ways to delay the very real possibility o...