For a short progress indicator on Academia’s progress? It’s almost done. I’ve got to figure out a few things for it this afternoon (how to send the contents of a text field to the printer in C# .NET, for one thing) and then I’ll turn it in late tonight to my instructor. [...]

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I’ve been working on a little desktop design under Windows, and I’ve switched from Rainmeter to Samurize because the latter is easier for a dummy like me to set it up. It’s a work in progress; I hope to make it look really really cool by the time it’s done. Screenshot after the [...]

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I’ve been hammering away at Academia for the past week now (took one day off in the middle), and I’ve made some really good progress on it. I’ve finished most of the add and modify sections; there are a few big things left that I need to implement in those places (including deleting students [...]

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Although I’m a fool with little skill in graphic design, I present to you the icon for Academia, along with a little description of why I made what I made.

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I’ve been doing gobs of work lately on Academia, and I’ve gotten to a small little milestone I’ve set for myself as “Part I,” and that’s the create portion of the application. Well, creating a new student and associating courses with it. Which was a huge source of confusion in my brain, originally. [...]

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Okay, don’t panic. It’s nothing big. It’s only the reason I haven’t posted much in the past… several weeks. It’s called school. But on top of that is the application I’m writing for my CIS334 (Advanced Windows Programming) C# final project: Academia. And I’m going to try to log my progress publicly through [...]

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I’ve heard some news that Missouri State’s CIS program is being transitioned into an all-online degree, by order of the Provost (yes, with a capital P). This is alarming, and I’ll tell you why: I’m a CIS major who’s had a few total-online classes (I’m not talking about the blended courses) in the degree, [...]

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