How Time Flies
So, I haven’t posted an update in a long time…
Taking two classes during the summer at Berkeley was much more work than I had expected. I have a CS 61A ‘quiz’ (read: midterm) every other week, and a CS 61A project due on the alternate weeks. Math 54 is much lighter in comparison, but I still have to fight to stay awake during the two-hour lectures.
I really love Berkeley Computer Science, though. CS 61A is the perfect introductory course to programming. Rather than being forced to just learn the syntax of programming language, I’m learning to think like a programmer. CS 61A is the first class I’ve taken at Berkeley that I’ve truly enjoyed, and that’s saying a lot.
With my newfound outlook on programming, I’ve wiped the dust off my copies of O’Reilly’s excellent Learning Perl and Programming Perl books. I used to be a Perl junkie, using it on and off to help with system administration, but I’ve grown addicted to it again. In my spare time, I’ve been experimenting with Perl scripts to manage OpenVPN on Linux. Hopefully, I’ll finish the scripts before the end of summer and post them up somewhere.