Week 16, Day 4 Posted April 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

Classes for the day were little more than formal proceedings. I turned in my last assignments for Instrumentation Lab and listening and critiqued a few more Japanese presentations but there wasn’t much of substance there. One student did pull a rather amusing attempt at bribery at the beginning of his presentation so the day was not without its moments.

The looming deadline for the final C++ project, on the other hand, was more troubling. Successive generations of code morphed an amorphous mess into a workable implementation of path finder algorithm, but I encountered a troubling problem. While my program compiled and ran without a hitch on my laptop, it would hang if compiler optimizations were enabled. This is a problem when we’re supposed to be performance-minded and I have yet to find a solution.