First off, I'd like to say that I'm sorry I was gone so long and that I'm going to post a blog entry at least once a month from now on no matter what.

Also, the next version of my prime number generator is out now that I fully understand arrays. Here it is in all its 49 lines of glory:

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I just created my first applet!!! (I really just made a slight change to the example applet in my code book)

Its programmed to display the String " Thomas is awesome " scrolling from right to left. Its 300 in width and 50 in height. (Thomas is my first name, and the String's message is what was changed from the example...

Yesterday in my Basic Programming class, I had need of the symbol pi to do some math in order to write code for circle statistics. Since I couldn't find the Ascii number for pi online, I wrote code to display all char values with their number equivalent:

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I have succeeded with my buffered line reader tests!!! Now I'll be working voraciously trying to get it finished, implementing my complex series of nested if-else-if ladders that serve as the control for position and input detection.

Here's a screenshot of one of my succesful tests:

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Also, on a side note, my...

Well, this is a little off topic for this blog, but I've decided that I need to say this:

Reputation really shouldn't be given or taken away as much in the nightmare in code, games, caffeine lounge, corner cubicle, student campus, etc. This is because posts here will be less valuable by nature, and carry less weight. You might want to...