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Report for week 12

This week is so-called week 12. That means it has been 12 weeks since I started studying for this semester. Wow. But it's a great week, compared to previous weeks. Not that boring though.

So, let me summarise few things here, as usual.

• 

  Last Monday, my friends and I have done our presentation in front of the class for the Basic Professional Writing subject. It's a proposal presentation. My group members and I had to wear formal clothes to campus and we looked pretty smart, especially my group leader, Awang. He wore an all-black suit with a dazzling red tie. He rocks.

  Okay, what's so cool about this presentation anyway? Well, the secret lies in the PowerPoint file that I've created with my bare hands. Gosh, it's the coolest PowerPoint presentation file I've ever created. I've designed it using the Web 2.0 visual elements. I named my masterpiece as Presentation 2.0. Haha!

  Basically, I simply apply some rounded corners, slight gradient backgrounds and large text. I've also used 'Fade' animation effects for the slides transition and 'Motion Paths' effect for certain elements. Frankly speaking, I stole some high-quality images from stock.xchng and design ideas from Free Software Magazine's magazine issue. Thanks a lot.

• 

  On Tuesday, a bad thing happened. And I'm not even sure how it happened at all!

  The contents of my 1 Gb USB drive got corrupted. And this happens the second time now, ever since my first USB drive died last semester. According to my inspection, the level of corruption is quite high. Some folders disappeared. Some files are there but their sizes are incorrect. I couldn't copy the files or folders out. There were gibberish characters on the folder and file names. Around 90% of all files in my USB drive are corrupted. The worst part is I did not have a backup for it.

  I made the same stupid mistake again. Again. Sigh.

• My roommate asked me for help in writing a C program for one of his assignments. And of course, I helped and done this, the file name is calc-lines.c:

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #define ONE_FILE "calc-lines.c"
  
  int main(void)
  {
      FILE *fpin;
      char character;
      int linesnum = 0;
      int totallinesnum = 1;
      int countline = 0;
  
      fpin = fopen(ONE_FILE, "r");
  
      if( fpin == NULL )
      {
          printf("Cannot open file.
  ");
          exit(101);
      }
  
      printf("  1. ");
  
      while( fscanf(fpin, "%c", &character) != EOF )
      {
          do{
              printf("%c", character);
  
              if( character != ' ' && character != '' && character != '	' && character != '
  ' )
                  countline = 1;
              else if( character == '
  ' )
              {
                  totallinesnum++;
                  printf("%3d. ", totallinesnum);
              }
          } while( fscanf(fpin, "%c", &character) != EOF && character != '
  ' );
  
          if(countline)
          {
              linesnum++;
              countline = 0;
          }
  
          if( character == '
  ' )
          {
              totallinesnum++;
              printf("
  %3d. ", totallinesnum);
          }
      }
  
      fclose(fpin);
  
      printf("
  ====================
  
  ");
      printf("Number of lines : %d
  ", totallinesnum);
      printf("Number of code lines : %d
  ", linesnum);
      printf("Number of blank lines : %d
  ", totallinesnum-linesnum);
  
      return 0;
  }

  This is a program that counts the number of lines for a file, including the blank lines and non-blank lines. Sorry, I won't explain further about the code and do not guarantee that the code above is high-quality.

That's all for the report this week. I hope that next week will be better.

Labels: university

Posted over 4 years ago, on Saturday, 12 August 2006