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orcelito · 4 months ago

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Got jumpscared by my own full legal name showing up in my email notifications bc I forgot I emailed my code to myself today just in case my VM ends up stopping working again (I got nervous & didn't wanna lose my progress lol)

Goldfish level memory retention

& the funny thing is that the email itself is just. This

Full Legal Name code • hi

#speculation nation #title 'code' email is just 'hi'. with the .c file attached of course #honestly i had a very productive day in lab today. i got the core structure of the program down and made sure it all worked #testing it with One of the sorting algorithms. and it worked!!#the lab is to code functions for different kinds of sorts. like bubble sort selection sort and uhh. some other shit idr rn #and have the functions take timestamps from before and after they run the sorts to calculate the elapsed time #and we have to run this for array sizes of like. 10 50 500 etc etc up to like 50000 or smth? if i remember right.#and then once all that's done we take the output and graph the time elapsed for each type of sort/search per array sizes #so today at lab i made the random array generator function. a swap function. the execution function. bubble sort. and main.#main calls the execution function passing in the array sizes. execution(10); execution(50); etc #execution defines the array of that size. then calls the random number generator to populate the array. then passes it to the sort functions #tested with my one bubble sort function. which finished in like 0.00003 seconds or smth for array size 10 #BUT taking the time stamps was tricky. there are a lot of ways to do that. and time(); in c is in full seconds #i ended up asking the TA if he had a recommendation for what to use bc theres a LOT of time functions out there #and full seconds isnt precise enough for this purpose. & he recommended clock()!!#records number of clock ticks which is NOT the same as seconds. but when u divide it by uh. forgetting it rn but it's a constant #that will turn it into actual seconds. clock tics per sec?? smth like that.#so anyways very productive 👍 i just need to set main up to call execution function for all the different array sizes #and then write all the functions for the different sorts/searches. but i have the core structure down with the bubble sort function #(specifically with the time stamps and the print function after) that i will copy-paste for all the other functions #and then inside them i put the basic code. none of it's complicated. all can be found on the internet easy.#SO!!!!! honestly i think itd take me less than an hour to finish. tho plotting out that graph is going to be annoying #something like 6 sizes per 5 sort/search functions. painstakingly copy pasting each one into excel or smth lol #but yea im content with how much ive gotten done. yippee!!!!#now i just need to finish my web programming lab before sunday night. blehhhhh

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