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2020-03-06: Programming by commenting the code
My today's entry is about my work. As I've written before I'm a programmer. Some of my working days are more productive than the others, but in any case, I write a lot of code.
Today there was an extraordinary day for me. I wrote a huge amount of lines, the vast majority of them was just comments. It was about twenty lines of real programming code and several hundred lines of text where I tried to explain what this code is intended to do.
The task I was solving today was not very challenging by itself. Rather simple, I would say. But it was connected with asynchronous message incoming and possible loss of the arbitrary amount of them. Those obstacles made the simple task to be the very hard one.
I had to comment literally any simple line of code to explain why it was necessary, what it meant, why this line written this way, and why someone can't do it simpler.
The one moment make me be worried. I'm afraid in a month or two I can't understand what all those comments I've written are about. It happens often because at the moment you're writing them you are deep in the topic but when time passes you can't even remember what the problem was.
I can only hope I was comprehensible enough to make the text having a sense for me and my colleagues afterwards.
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2020-03-05: Musical IQ
Of course, you know about the IQ (intelligence quotient) tests which were very popular in the past century. You may also know how many your personal IQ is. There are a lot of tests variations created nowadays. But all of them are dealt with people common intelligence, that is the ability to solve some kind of logical problems, like choosing the wrong item from the list, or combine parts of objects into the whole one.
Yesterday I read the news about the special IQ test focused purely on music abilities. It's located here: https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/miq. The result this test gives is pretty like the usual IQ. The score of 100 is a median value. Half of the people have "musical IQ" below 100, and the other half have above this. So you may measure whether you are more music-capable than the others.
Unfortunately, I'm completely incapable of music. I didn't even try to pass the test. Luckily, I've found the video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b15BrgrctPs) of the test pass-thru with very interesting comments about how the tasks are built and if the results are really so meaningful as test's authors pretend us to be.
After watching the video, I realized that I want to pass the test myself because my own answers were almost the same as the narrator's ones. I hope I'll find half an hour in the near future. Maybe I've been wrong about my musical intelligence?
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2020-03-04: Charles Darwin's wife and penguins in Australia
Hello!
Don't be surprised, two subjects of my today topic aren't connected to each other except by I met both topics during my English lesson yesterday.
Let's start with Charles Darwin. Actually not with him but with his wife Emma Darwin who was born as Emma Wedgwood. There was a small message about her in my listening task. It was told there Emma was the youngest of eight children in the family.
One sentence of the speech was very hard to hear for me and I decided to use Wikipedia to find the information about Emma I expected to be mentioned in the text. Then I hoped to hear the words I missed.
I opened the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Darwin and found there Emma was the youngest of seven(!) children. 'Hey, what? Seven?' I thought and followed to the page for the Emma father's, Josiah Wedgwood II, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood_II. The article there stated he had four sons and five daughters. Great! Now there were nine!
I wished I clarify why the number of children is so different. But for that time I couldn't dive deeper into the story and just gave up. Sorry.
The second part of the story is about penguins. I never thought penguins may be found in Australia. I knew that there are some in New Zealand. And I was sure New Zealand is far more south than Australia. So it was a real discovery for me that you may find penguins on Philip Island near Melbourne. And New Zealand is closer to the South Pole for only 500 kilometres than Australia. Not such a great distance I thought it to be before.
I hope, it was interesting for you to know about facts I recently researched due to my English lessons. Thanks for the reading!
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2020-03-03: The challenge
So, this is my first italki notebook record. Hello, world!
To know English quite well to understand and talk to native speakers freely is my old dream. Finally, the moment has come. Last week I made a strong decision to make it a reality. My goal is to pass the IELTS exam until the end of this summer. I want to get 7 grade at least.
I hope it will be a great help for passing writing part of the IELTS to write one small essay here for every day. I expect essay themes to be different: news, funny events from my life, my working tasks (I'm a programmer, by the way), etc.
Let's start.
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