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Tuesday June 3rd 2003 10:46 AM PST

I got up early today... don't ask me why. I have a few projects to work on, but i'm waiting for assets on most of them. So that has left me with some time to screw around. So i've had my nose in a book all morning. I've always learned programms just by buggin the shit out of somebody who does know them. This time i don't know anybody who really knows C that well, so i've been reading. O'Reilly's Practical C Programming. I am very happy with the ease of development under OSX. I've built a few stupid little applications so far with little trouble. I need to now build something useful. I have a little stupid lottery program that i built in PHP and now i think i am just going to translate it over to C. After that i think i might dive into the OTHER book i have. Practical C++ Programming. So after i learn enough about the syntax and structure of the code i'll move over to the GUI.

anyway, i can already see some applications for this. I've been reading some VERY heavy material on image comparison. You would not think twice about it, but when you get into the more interesting math related to the subject you realize that you can do comparison algorithms on just about anything. At this point i am just interested in images, but i realized that i could do the same thing to music or pieces of music.

In short its like this. You have the computer look at an image and then find another image that matches. Simple, but then... You have the computer look at an image and then find another image that contains that image or part of that image.

The literature on the subject is amazing. So many people have started working with these pieces of code because you could identify and match pieces of music as well as images. If you have ever used a new gnutella client you will notice that each file is identified with a code string. This is a very simple matching system. It does great for file sharing, but it would never be accurate enough to say match finger prints. So i understand the concept, but i really want to understand the math. And i don't have any kind of programming language under my belt that would come close to doing this kind of number crunching. So that's why i got my nose in a C book.

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What about Cocoa?

Posted by: jason D-

Well its really moving toward that right now. I've run across a few tutorials that are more Cocoa based than anything else. Right now i am really trying to understand the similarities between C and C++ and Cocoa and see how much of it i really can digest in one sitting. I've built about 10 little C test applications that are great for doing jobs like PHP. But now i am building a little tutorial app in Cocoa that in reality might not be as powerful, but is just as cool in itself. What i am finding out is, it is as simple as development for server-side or client-side. C for the server, Cocoa for the client. anyway, back to the fun

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