Finally progress

[scarfman]

At my lengthy post describing in fine detail my fruitless attempts to download, burn, and install Visual Studio 2005, j_a_c_s pointed me toward an unsupported tool that would read ISO files as if they'd already been burned to disk. I downloaded the tool, and set the first ISO file to installing VS05. Partway through the first disk install it occurred to me that I might have been wiser to define the virtual drive as both ISO files instead of only the first. Perhaps that would have worked, but I may never know. Naturally when the install called for the second disk, I tried to get the tool reassign the virtual drive to the second ISO file and couldn't. I rollbacked the install, and tried to unassign the virtual drive from the first ISO (so I could start over with the virtual drive assigned to both ISOs) and couldn't. That was last weekend wiped out.

I had a homework assignment due Tuesday, a file of code in Java (which, you'll recall, I am the only person in class who doesn't know) which is to be converted into a whole C# project. I emailed the professor that I mean to turn it in ... eventually. I asked him whether the CS department has any tutors; he replied that all the CS majors find better-paying jobs elsewhere on campus, but this is the sort of reason he holds office hours. I said I'd see him Monday afternoon, but first I wanted to do some self-assesment: review the material we've covered in the book so far.

j_a_c_s in his comment was only one of several people whose ear I bent with my troubles to suggest that I download Visual Studio 2005 Express instead, or some C# compiler so I could at least run my code. That was my plan for Saturday. Then Friday night we had dinner from Long John Silver's ... and Saturday I had another bout of the stomach distress I had twice last March from eating outside our usual ring of fast food (last time it was a Runza; the time before, a Wendy's). This bout was much lighter; no vomiting, which may not be a good thing, since last time it seemed to be when I'd lost the food that was bothering me that the symptoms abated. Anyway that was all yesterday lost.

Today I've downloaded Visual C# Express and installed it, and it works! Yay. I'm up through Chapter 3. In class Thursday we covered Chapter 17.