July 11

So .. yeah. Life.

Life is that thing that gets in the way of a lot of things you want to do. And so it did ... for a while.

Life is finally calming down for me ... well, as calm as it gets around here. I've heard it said that if you want to learn how to swim, don't go into a hurricane to do it. Well, I finally got to a nice calm pool to try to learn how to code.

I picked this up from the local public library the other day.

Not a great help, as it was written for the Windows OS, but ... still it put the idea in my head about a few things.

One of which was to search the Internet for a few ideas, at the end of a "Using C++ on the Mac, I came up with using Xcode.  I did, however, read the fine print. It seems it will only work with OS X.8.4 ... yeah ... I ain't got time for that at the moment ...

I read along and found out I need 7gb room on a HD to get X.8.4 upgrade from my current OS. What a piece of crap I have under my fingernails ... at least it's a POC if I'm trying to learn to code. If I'm trying to teach from it ... it works just fine.

So ...either another HD upgrade to facilitate an OS upgrade ... or I just take that money and upgrade to another laptop. At least this upgrade I could do myself. I'm getting pretty good around the Macbook insides. The fact is ... I just don't want to spend money on gaining these skills.

At least I got this to play with for the next few days: