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My God, I finished a programming assignment for Advanced Data Structures in one week! Less so! I had to set up Eclipse and relearn some of the basics. The funny thing is I started doing everything right then I switched into C++ style classes and really messed things up. Apparently is recognized but works a bit differently! I finished it, but not as well as I had hoped. I had hoped of doing all the hard parts the hard way (which is more efficient) but ended up being too lazy to. In any event its done, its quicker and a bit better than the teacher’s reference. By the way its a Compression and Decompression program, so in case you were wondering, you now know. I managed to use the program to compress a video avi (captured, uncompressed) down to 83% of its original size with no loss! And some other little things worked well about it. I may release it here (I’d love that) but its rather silly to use, perhaps I could write a frontend! Hah, GUIs are never my strong point (although…). One thing I noticed was that I was creating smaller files on the compression side, but the teacher’s percentage was always lower (of the original size), so he must have been using some floor function instead of rounding (DAMN!). I’ve yet to get a grade on it.

Eclipse is good, I got it working with GNU GCC on windows with Cygwin. Free IDE! Cheaper than Visual Studio .net!