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Meta-html - 3SidedSquare - 01-14-2014
Normally I post stuff of a very technical nature, but today I wanted to share a story with you.
1 semester of college down, whoopie! I go home for the break, when the final grades come in, I had a B- in a course, that was basically a computer course. I WTF for most of the rest of the break ( I'm at a crappy satellite school for the first year, and I need to maintain a 3.5 GPA, so a B- is REALLY bad). I email my teacher and ask him defuq happened, and if I can see a grade breakdown anywhere. He emailed me back saying that I didn't turn in a major project, and a few other minor assignments. I replied that I did indeed turn in all the projects he assigned, and have the e-mail record to prove it. (computer class, we emailed him most of our assignments). He said if I can get him the missing ASAP work, he would "see what I can do".
S]o now, I'm scrambling to get screenshots of my email, and find all my work from the past semester, all unorganized on a 500 Gb external SSD. I for the life of me couldn't find the major project (that shit was worth 200/1500 points) so I decided to scramble and re-do it. It was an html/javascript page, and I had the basic template from one of my other projects, but I didn't have nearly enough time to re-write all the javascript. So I did the only logical thing, I starting writing scripts, that would generate the code for me. Effectively, writing code that wrote code. An interesting experience, but what the hay. Anyway, I just got everything done, and emailed him the screenshots of my email, and the missing stuff.
I apologize if this ended up being a big wall of text, it just felt so good to be able to find a solution. How were your days?
Tl;dr game is hard, professors OP
RE: Meta-html - Oni - 01-14-2014
That must suck. I've never had that happen to me.
RE: Meta-html - 3SidedSquare - 01-14-2014
What can I say? I'm a sciences major, at a liberal arts school.
RE: Meta-html - w00t - 01-14-2014
So basically you wrote dreamweaver?
There are programs out there designed to make programming most scripts really, really easy.
RE: Meta-html - Lain - 01-14-2014
(01-14-2014, 04:08 AM)w00t Wrote: So basically you wrote dreamweaver?
There are programs out there designed to make programming most scripts really, really easy.
Javascript isn't already really, really easy?
RE: Meta-html - 3SidedSquare - 01-14-2014
I never learned to write dreamweaver macros... (do those even exist?)
RE: Meta-html - w00t - 01-14-2014
Not to my knowledge, the point was that there are tools that no doubt do more or less what you spent time programming.
RE: Meta-html - cr33pyguy - 01-14-2014
at least you found and had stored your work
I would be screwed if something like that happened