May 8th - Genius Hour Blog #7

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 This last Monday was the 7th block of Genius hour that we have done, which adds up to 567 minutes, or 9 hours and 27 minutes. Its amazing what you can learn in less than a day! This last Monday I did some troubleshooting for the random number generator and it outputs the error code properly now. All I had to do was create a new filter and place it before anything else was outputted. Really banging my head on a desk for that one. After I polished up the software to the best of my abilities (which isn't very good), I decided to hop over to one of my favorite subreddits, r/dailyprogrammer. I don't think I have actually completed anything on there but I love to read other people's programs and see what they did that helped them. This teaches me helpful concepts and entertains me. The day didn't seem very productive, but it made me feel good because I did less problem solving and more thinking about anything I wanted. I also learned about Base62 encoding, which is just encoding a number with the characters "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ". From what
Its really confusing once you get into higher numbers so I need to do some more reading next block. Ideally I would use this to decipher urls and give the number for my project so I want to do that. Hopefully I get this project done by day 9 so I can present one more project. Right now my project is in a good state right now if you ask me. I already have one of my projects ready but probably will only be able to make 3 projects and not 4. One of the departments my project is good in right now is the selection. I'll have 3, but they might be simpler than other projects just because I want to split my time 3 ways.

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