Matthew Walton’s Blog

So my final-year project is finally complete, with the demonstration yesterday afternoon. It feels so good to get it out of the way!

Of course, all I need to do now are C++ coursework, computability exam and program construction and verification exam. Nothing seriously bad, although I should probably learn computability…

But I find myself spending far too much time playing Neverwinter Nights — highly addictive, and I’m actually doing well for a change. Being a level 8 Monk at the start of Chapter Two definitely helps, especially when I’ve got some rather nice little gadgets like a Lesser Ring of Power, Robes of the Old Order and Gloves of the Yellow Rose +3. Muahahaha.

And I didn’t make this entry before because I was still getting over the shock. 9am hand in. Not perfect, but as close as I could get it given the time and my dreadful, dreadful time management throughout the project.

Note to self: next time, do some f**king work

The end is almost in sight, so why do I see nothing but a great black void beyond it? I should be feeling anticipation and excitement at the possibilities which are open to me, but for some reason I’m not. Even though it’s stressful and frustrating and ultimately bad at me, I find myself wanting to stick with the familiar…
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Real progress being made with the dissertation now – I have a fully-working Triangle parser, a suitably functional (I hope) identifier table ADT and the beginnings of a contextual analyser, which hopefully shouldn’t be too evil to implement. Fingers crossed…

Ah the fun… I finally get an implementation of the Triangle parser for my dissertation which actually compiles. All well and good (and I found some serious muckups as I was debugging the compile errors, which is great). However, it turns out the grammar is horribly left-recursive so now I need to transform the thing into something that will actually parse correctly.

Wonderful.