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aspectpriority · 10 days ago

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after some faffing about today i've gotten Tavros, Gamzee, and Kanaya's quirks all working just fine. these were a little harder because you can't just find and replace characters, which is how I've been doing it so far - you have to flip through the string and check what actually needs capitalising.

We've found a couple different examples for this sorta thing, one used character arrays and another used string builders - i'm not sure if one is better than the other? This kinda thing often bugs us a lot - we like to do things the "proper" way, but frankly, for what this is (a silly little baby's first java project) it literally doesn't Fucking matter. Maybe we'll get good enough to give a damn at some point? but for the time being, especially for something that no one Else is going to use, it's pretty inconsequential.

That said! we've got everyone from Aradia through to Terezi done now. Just over half way through! Isn't that neat!

#.txt #maybe soon i'll finish up and get back to the java for minecraft tutorial we were following LMFAO #i'm not mad at the side track though tbh.#one of the things we struggle with the most in programming is tunnel visioning in on something Specific and kind of just-#not actually learning how stuff works?#we're Deeply impatient that way. if it isn't Directly Related we don't want to hear about it.#(but then you end up with giant holes in your knowledge and everything is way way harder than it needs to be)#so like i said. i'm not mad at taking some time out to actually like. Work with what we're learning? even if it's just something silly.#the best way to learn things is to Do things and all that.#plus! learning how to Finish things is a Very Real Skill that we Severely Lack.#it doesn't matter how simple or stupid something is - if you *finish* it. its Done!#i genuinely don't think i would be enjoying java as much as i am rn if i hadn't finished the simple calculator exercise from the tutorial.#its the kind of thing i would have skipped over in college? (when i was last learning java) but it was really fun!#and obviously the more you actually Use what you learn the better you understand and remember it.#so :3c it's a win all round! even if this quirk thing is turning into a rather lengthy sidetrack.#i'm not mad.

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