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&lt;a href="https://gist.github.com/MelanieS/5158547"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:4cEx4HpKnUU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=qHx91fhHUlc:eGHyifZ13dk:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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of ferns.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I wrote a program some months ago that did one simple task: it printed the Fibonacci to the nth number (where the user can enter the nth number.) When I selected some fun, high number and printed it to the screen it was in a spiral. Why would simply 
printing the numbers cause a spiral? The font in my console in monospaced, so it has nothing to do with odd spacing of characters. There is a clear spiral and it appears to continue a bit on the left side near the top and the bottom. It's pretty cool.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WRMUimykQJs/UNgLhzen2sI/AAAAAAAAGkc/NY8q6MXOD1o/s1600/fibonacci_spiral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WRMUimykQJs/UNgLhzen2sI/AAAAAAAAGkc/NY8q6MXOD1o/s400/fibonacci_spiral.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
The curve has to do with the spaces between the printed numbers which depend on the length of the printed numbers as well as the width of the screen/console. Since this is a monospace font, the spaces and numbers match up nicely.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You can compute the nth Fibonacci number with an explicit formula for n, the Binet Formula and if you know the formula for F(n), you can then compute its length with the formula

floor( log(F(n)) + 1 ),

where log is base 10. Because all of these things follow nice patterns, there will be some geometric patterns in the spaces produced by printing the list of Fibonacci numbers. &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/kDNruPdNdr0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/3492940070004803915/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=3492940070004803915&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/3492940070004803915?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/3492940070004803915?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/kDNruPdNdr0/fibonacci-spiral-in-printed-numbers.html" title="Fibonacci Spiral in Printed Numbers" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WRMUimykQJs/UNgLhzen2sI/AAAAAAAAGkc/NY8q6MXOD1o/s72-c/fibonacci_spiral.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2012/12/fibonacci-spiral-in-printed-numbers.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUADRXk-eSp7ImA9WhNVE04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-674985311190141647</id><published>2012-12-24T02:22:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-12-24T02:22:54.751-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-12-24T02:22:54.751-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="programming" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="programming exercises" /><title>Secret Code Programming Puzzle</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="userContent"&gt;I'm trying to solve a mathy programming problem. 
(I came up with the problem a couple of years ago, but it's still 
preying on my mind.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There is a secret code (which you're 
allowed unlimited guesses at) =&amp;gt; a string 12 characters in length. 
Each character can be either a number or a letter (a-z, 0-9) and it's 
not case-sensitive (A == a).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; After every hour, a character in the secret code is revea&lt;span class="text_exposed_show"&gt;led.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; For example:&lt;br /&gt; Hour 1:&lt;br /&gt; _ _ Q _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hour 2:&lt;br /&gt; _ _ Q _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 _&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hour 3:&lt;br /&gt; _ _ Q _ _ _ _ 7 _ _ 4 _&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hour 12:&lt;br /&gt; 1 C Q 8 2 V V 7 J B 4 9&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
 I want to write code that solves the code before a human can. I figure a
 human can realistically start manually entering combinations at around 
hour 10. I would like my program to solve it before then.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; What 
should the program do when another hour goes by and another secret 
character is revealed? I was thinking of starting out with an array of 
all the possible combinations, but populating and storing the array 
would take an immense amount of time and resources. I was thinking about
 storing this array and when a new character is revealed, rejecting ALL 
strings from the array that don't have the new secret character in the 
exact position.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; At a worse case scenario of making guesses with all 12 characters left unrevealed, we're left with awful time complexity:&lt;br /&gt; 36 numbers and letters, 12 mystery characters&lt;br /&gt;
 36^12 == somewhere considerably longer than I have remaining in my 
lifetime given however long it takes in a single-threaded program to 
make a guess. Still too long in a multi-threaded program on the world's 
best computer.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; However, this goes down significantly after each hour. So I have several questions to answer:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
 Should I start my program at a certain hour? If so, would there be any 
benefit to at least STARTING to populate an array before said starting 
hour? Would I even need to populate a massive array?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:4cEx4HpKnUU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=sl2n6s2detE:dKj20dKYk5o:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/sl2n6s2detE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/674985311190141647/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=674985311190141647&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/674985311190141647?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/674985311190141647?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/sl2n6s2detE/secret-code-programming-puzzle.html" title="Secret Code Programming Puzzle" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2012/12/secret-code-programming-puzzle.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0YHQH8yfCp7ImA9WhNWF0U.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-5870715985081397774</id><published>2012-12-17T17:58:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2012-12-17T17:58:51.194-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-12-17T17:58:51.194-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="best practices" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ruby" /><title>Best Practices in Comparison</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="userContent"&gt;I have a best practices question about some code.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Which code is easier for another programmer to understand:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="userContent"&gt;&lt;script src="https://gist.github.com/4322766.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="userContent"&gt;Should I switch the greater_than and less_than
 signs [as in elsif in the first example (lines 1-5)] or should I switch
 the position of rocks and pebbles [as in the elsif in the second 
example(lines 7-11).] I prefer the second example because the puts 
statement is essentially the same as its if statement.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; However,
 maybe it's easier for some people to think of the comparison in terms 
of, well, in this case, rocks. (I really don't know why.) What do you 
think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/qIJRFNpMfGs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/5870715985081397774/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=5870715985081397774&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/5870715985081397774?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/5870715985081397774?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/qIJRFNpMfGs/best-practices-in-comparison.html" title="Best Practices in Comparison" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2012/12/best-practices-in-comparison.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEHRn0yfip7ImA9WhNXEkg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-1473768931495535390</id><published>2012-11-30T01:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-11-30T01:40:37.396-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-11-30T01:40:37.396-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Perl" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ruby" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="programming" /><title>The Course Schedule Program</title><content type="html">My school lists the course schedule as pictured. The search 
functionality is deficient in that it offers little customization in the
 "advanced search."&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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I would like to "pull" the entire schedule and do the following things to help me choose classes:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;1.)&lt;/b&gt;
 Have an option to compare it to a list of classes I'm required to take,
 classes I HAVE taken, and any classes I'm currently schedule to take in
 order to finish school and return ONLY those that,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; a.) I haven't yet taken.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; b.) count toward major.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; c.) fit within my current schedule in terms of times and dates&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; d.) I'm qualified to take. (In terms of pre-reqs.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;2.)&lt;/b&gt;
 Have functionality that allows me to see the maximum number of classes I
 can take during a semester. Preferably order combinations of classes in
 such a way that the schedule combo with the highest number of credit 
hours in listed first and the one with the least is (obviously) listed 
last. This would prevent crappy schedules that have weird times slots 
that make finding other required classes difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;3.)&lt;/b&gt; Allow me 
to see the professor score for a class section as reported by 
(ratemyprofessors.com.) I won't need this to be searchable, but it would
 be nice to be able to see that data.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;4.)&lt;/b&gt; Have functionality that
 allows me to prevent certain classes from showing up. For example, if I
 don't want to take AD 123 (even if it DID count toward my major), I 
would like to prevent it from showing up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;5.)&lt;/b&gt; Functionality to 
ignore the requirement that a class should count toward my major. This 
would be particularly helpful if I couldn't find a course within my 
major that would properly fit in my schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Perhaps this 
functionality would be the default behavior of the program and it the 
program would score class combinations based on relevance to 
requirements. In order to keep things from getting weird, create a 
credit hour limit for schedules of 19 credit hours.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;6.)&lt;/b&gt;
 Functionality to consider a "must-have" class (or two or three...) into
 the schedule. If I HAVE to take Awesome 101, section 4, with Professor 
Cool, I want to see potential schedules built around this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;7.)&lt;/b&gt; If I don't care for a professor, I would like to exclude him/her from my potential schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How would I best achieve this?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I'm considering using Ruby (since that's what I'm most comfortable with), but I'm open to whatever (even Perl.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My first instinct is to programmatically open the schedule with something like &lt;b&gt;open-uri&lt;/b&gt;, and pull all course data. I was thinking of using &lt;a href="http://nokogiri.org/"&gt;nokogiri&lt;/a&gt;
 to search the data, but I think that throwing everything into a 
database and then querying the database would be a MUCH faster and MUCH 
better option.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My question is this:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;What technologies would be best suited for this project?&lt;/b&gt;
 I literally have zero experience with databases except for a tiny bit 
of relational algebra (not enough to help me out in any way.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It's
 probably also important to note that I would like to make this 
available for use on CodeGurl (mainly as a 'look ma, no friends' type 
thing), where a student can upload a spreadsheet containing classes 
they've already taken, classes they're required, and any must-haves, so 
any technologies related to deploying this would be helpful too. I've 
never deployed or packaged anything.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I basically need 
help with figuring out which direction to go with this. I beg you guys 
not to do the project for me (what would I learn? Nothing. And I'd feel 
like dirt.) However, any links, lists of technologies (and what problem 
they solve) would be GREATLY appreciated. Any technologies that are 
beginner friendly (have a LOT of beginners guides) would be FAB!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
-Melanie&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/N26motwckH4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/1473768931495535390/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=1473768931495535390&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/1473768931495535390?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/1473768931495535390?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/N26motwckH4/the-course-schedule-program_30.html" title="The Course Schedule Program" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vQFVp6NGW0Y/ULhUbBx1d_I/AAAAAAAAGeI/KKSlF6xIvUw/s72-c/em.PNG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2012/11/the-course-schedule-program_30.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIFR3o9fip7ImA9WhNREEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-3307973040447564651</id><published>2012-11-04T12:34:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-11-04T12:35:16.466-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-11-04T12:35:16.466-05:00</app:edited><title>Checking for Primes</title><content type="html">I'm writing a script that will check whether or not a number is prime and I'm having some issues on how to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If I take a number, lets say 100, and I want to check and see if it's prime I could do this:&lt;br /&gt;
-Divide it by all numbers 2..99 to see whether or not 100 is divisible by them. If not, it passes (it's prime.)&lt;br /&gt;
-Check whether it's divisible by 2. If so, it fails (composite.) If its not di&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="text_exposed_show"&gt;
visible,
 truncate the result of dividing by 2 and check all numbers 
2..the_result of dividing by two. This would significantly reduce the 
pool of numbers I would have to check, BUT I run into another issue...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If I choose to check whether it's divisible by 2, then, if it's not, 
move onto 3... and THEN if its not divisible by 3, I could really bring 
the size of the pool of numbers down to ~1/3rd of its original size...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, when do I stop? At the 1/4 size? 1/8 size?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Optimally, I'd like to do as few operations as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The code that produces the array is as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="https://gist.github.com/3993911.js"&gt; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lc6lByn0j_s/T_eA7qJh_wI/AAAAAAAAED0/lx-nIlfWYIo/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lc6lByn0j_s/T_eA7qJh_wI/AAAAAAAAED0/lx-nIlfWYIo/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I don't write software professionally, but I still have fun programming. I've also noticed throughout my school career that I have really poor math skills. After learning to program, I went back to school and there was a noticeable difference in my ability to learn math. I really believe it has sharpened my logic and reasoning skills.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you're 100% lost in what to do with Ruby once you install it, there are a bunch of easy-to-follow guides that will get your started. &lt;a href="http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=00"&gt;This is how I started&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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To get started, you'll need to install Ruby. Here's&lt;a href="http://melbel.hubpages.com/_hubblogg/hub/How-to-Install-Ruby-on-Windows"&gt; how to install Ruby in Windows&lt;/a&gt;. I promise programming will challenge you in a fun way! Enjoy!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Some of these actually remind me of the smiley face and Mickey Mouse pancakes my mom would make us as kids.&lt;br /&gt;
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Have you ever tried making any fun or creative pancake designs? Which of these are your favorite? I can't decide!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This one is so cute and looks fairly easy-to-make&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KxOI2WcJuow/T-apTss1ygI/AAAAAAAAD50/r6HHpO_s52k/s1600/01-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KxOI2WcJuow/T-apTss1ygI/AAAAAAAAD50/r6HHpO_s52k/s320/01-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Star Wars, anyone?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o0y5neiCzmw/T-apbbuXm2I/AAAAAAAAD58/ydb2KoufZa4/s1600/04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o0y5neiCzmw/T-apbbuXm2I/AAAAAAAAD58/ydb2KoufZa4/s1600/04.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This looks like a great way to get children&lt;br /&gt;
to&amp;nbsp;eat fruit in the morning!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-597ixOgGW1o/T-apu4XDQAI/AAAAAAAAD6E/l7afJu3sebI/s1600/01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-597ixOgGW1o/T-apu4XDQAI/AAAAAAAAD6E/l7afJu3sebI/s320/01.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Totoro? Now that's just dang creative!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-twTk8rVcH00/T-aqCW9VMSI/AAAAAAAAD6M/yns7rNpLY-Q/s1600/creative-pancakes-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-twTk8rVcH00/T-aqCW9VMSI/AAAAAAAAD6M/yns7rNpLY-Q/s320/creative-pancakes-14.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A bit of food coloring and a ton of&lt;br /&gt;
artistic skill and you have an&amp;nbsp;amazing&lt;br /&gt;
breakfast you'll never forget!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jGWqzkrIpYY/T-aqW0gc7yI/AAAAAAAAD6U/Fcbv3s85748/s1600/creative-pancakes-31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jGWqzkrIpYY/T-aqW0gc7yI/AAAAAAAAD6U/Fcbv3s85748/s320/creative-pancakes-31.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Have I mentioned that giraffes&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;are my favorite animal?&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KIRKdRdFLk0/T-aqxpfTX3I/AAAAAAAAD6c/KDeNitaJz4Q/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KIRKdRdFLk0/T-aqxpfTX3I/AAAAAAAAD6c/KDeNitaJz4Q/s320/02.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;So creative and so simple! Great for breakfast&lt;br /&gt;
on Thanksgiving day!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GkNyc5R_cq0/T-arJAraaDI/AAAAAAAAD6k/Rti2D2BjR40/s1600/Unusual-and-Cool-Pancakes-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="309" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GkNyc5R_cq0/T-arJAraaDI/AAAAAAAAD6k/Rti2D2BjR40/s320/Unusual-and-Cool-Pancakes-6.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;So cute! I almost wouldn't be able to bite into it!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jH3MmFluoM/T-araDEz9lI/AAAAAAAAD6s/VHCL2Im2VaA/s1600/penguin-pancakes-littlestar19-flickr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jH3MmFluoM/T-araDEz9lI/AAAAAAAAD6s/VHCL2Im2VaA/s320/penguin-pancakes-littlestar19-flickr.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;These are perfect because they hold extra syrup! Yum!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mjQH0qP6qI/T-arseD4IzI/AAAAAAAAD60/UmLnSSEat3w/s1600/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mjQH0qP6qI/T-arseD4IzI/AAAAAAAAD60/UmLnSSEat3w/s320/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.11.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This must have taken forever to make.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HiVGRxPp8P4/T-ar7InkUiI/AAAAAAAAD68/l5u5bKlOEfQ/s1600/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.09.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HiVGRxPp8P4/T-ar7InkUiI/AAAAAAAAD68/l5u5bKlOEfQ/s320/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.09.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pigs in a blanket! Too cute!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ywbqkOFdbvg/T-asIVm7hyI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OumL2bfkA0M/s1600/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.08.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="249" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ywbqkOFdbvg/T-asIVm7hyI/AAAAAAAAD7E/OumL2bfkA0M/s320/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.08.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Turtle pancake = awesome!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OKUNh0qsDAg/T-asZPWsofI/AAAAAAAAD7M/sNl7bThES_U/s1600/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.18.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="254" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OKUNh0qsDAg/T-asZPWsofI/AAAAAAAAD7M/sNl7bThES_U/s320/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.18.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Okay, this is the coolest idea ever!!&lt;br /&gt;
Is it "pancakes for breakfast" or "breakfast for pancakes?"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
So these pancakes are pretty awesome, right? Check out some of these &lt;a href="http://melbel.hubpages.com/hub/Nerdy-Wedding-Cakes"&gt;weird cakes&lt;/a&gt;, for more cake fun!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:4cEx4HpKnUU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=Mh5Ojf7o3R0:b7RPGpT3rWc:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/Mh5Ojf7o3R0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/8317272525129084786/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=8317272525129084786&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/8317272525129084786?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/8317272525129084786?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/Mh5Ojf7o3R0/pancake-art.html" title="Pancake Art" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTe0jxlJZ_U/T-apAKAU57I/AAAAAAAAD5s/evzC1eCt4dY/s72-c/Screen-shot-2009-12-22-at-Tue12-229.13.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2012/06/pancake-art.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcFQX8yeyp7ImA9WhJVF0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-1816347141941206108</id><published>2012-06-12T18:22:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2012-09-04T02:26:50.193-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-09-04T02:26:50.193-04:00</app:edited><title>Melbel's HubPages Milestones</title><content type="html">As you may already know, I'm a writer on HubPages. There, I write under the name "Melbel." While I joined HubPages in 2009, I only really gained an interest in writing there sometime around January of 2011. As I wrote more, my writing skills really improved. Some hubs saw great success, some never saw the light of day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This year, I've embarked on a journey in &lt;a href="http://hubpages.com/_hubblogg/learningcenter/Apprenticeship-Program"&gt;HubPages' Apprenticeship program&lt;/a&gt;. While, many of my hubs written before the program still receive MUCH more traffic than my newer ones (they're so new, it's really too early to tell how they'll do), I have a LOT of faith that they're do really well. In fact, some of the hubs I've written last month have already started to show a bit of promise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since this post is inspired by MissOlive's Milestone post, I want to follow a bit in her footsteps by sharing a few of my milestones.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Melbel's Milestones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tw3GiS4fqb0/T9fE50toKpI/AAAAAAAADxk/oAMNTqVBbyU/s1600/own.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="199" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tw3GiS4fqb0/T9fE50toKpI/AAAAAAAADxk/oAMNTqVBbyU/s200/own.PNG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Published Hubs to date&lt;/b&gt;: 169 (I deleted a few)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Number of Hubs in Draft&lt;/b&gt;: 27&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Total Hub views to date&lt;/b&gt;: 1,110,498 views&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Total Hubs with over 1k views&lt;/b&gt;: 70&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Total Hubs with over 10k views&lt;/b&gt;: 20&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Total Hubs with over 100k views&lt;/b&gt;: 2&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Comments to date&lt;/b&gt;: 3244&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Followers to date&lt;/b&gt;: 1380&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;My goals for 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
To reach 1.5M views&lt;br /&gt;
To reach 80,000 views per month&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Advice from Melbel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Keep working at it. You're not going to make ANYTHING at first. I made almost zilch for quite a while. Just keep writing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't write poetry or things on "how to do well on HubPages."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Write for people coming in from the search engines, not for other hubbers. Other hubbers are nice, but don't really bring you any money.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't put your amazon products at the very end of your hub. Nest them near relevant text.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only put relevant products in your hubs. Unless your hub is related to reading or the kindle, don't sell kindles on your hub.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Find hubbers that write fabulous hubs. Learn what elements of their hubs you love and what makes them so successful.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make friends with other hubbers, but don't get overly involved in "office" politics. There's drama everywhere and there's no need to let it get in the way of your writing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pay attention to what you do in everyday life. You'd be surprised the things you're able to do with ease that many people have to look up (on Google... your hub) directions for. Things like "how to scrub a pan clean" and "how to check if your water heater is leaky" are things people do in their daily lives... and have already made some awesome hubs!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keyword research every hub you write. Even if you've already got an idea for a hub, you'll want to find some ways to give it the best chances in Google search.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Soak up everything in &lt;a href="http://hubpages.com/_hubblogg/learningcenter/contents"&gt;the learning center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avoid bad/all SEO advice. Just write your hubs and pay attention to what's in the learning center. There are a TON of "SEO" idiots that appear very authoritative. No SEO is better than huge SEO mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do the WTI. It's the best way to write an article without having to do the keyword research... all the research is done for you, all you have to do is use one of the handy titles given by Simone!&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; a. Teach me better math skills&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; b. Teach me better programming skills&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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If you want to keep an eye on the rest of my algebra scripts, head on over to my &lt;a href="https://github.com/MelanieS/Alg-scripts"&gt;Alg-scripts&lt;/a&gt; repository. Here, you'll be able to check out all those scripts as they come out. (More coming this summer.) Also, you can keep an eye on my other programming projects (you'll find my GitHub username on that Alg-scripts repo.) Feel free to fork my project. :)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When I ran my Fibonacci script (I chose to display the first 900 numbers), something interesting happened. Here is an image to show what happened. I know that this happens in nature, but in printing the numbers? Interesting, nevertheless.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Thus far, I've receive 64,000 Facebook likes on my &lt;a href="http://melbel.hubpages.com/hub/Michigan-Accent"&gt;Michigan Accent&lt;/a&gt; article alone. There were also several hundred tweets, Pinterest pins, etc. I'm definitely excited about this! Since the article contains links to a few of my other articles, those articles have also received several thousand views a piece.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I know my traffic will go back down to normal within the coming days, but it's always nice to have a jump in traffic (and earnings.) Maybe it'll strengthen my subdomain! :)&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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I've never used 1.8 as I started learning Ruby with 1.9.1 (and later)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The folks over at Ruby recommend to do either of the following,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A: Scramble the string hash function&lt;br /&gt;
or&lt;br /&gt;
B: Upgrade to Ruby ruby 1.8.7-p357 or higher (1.9 is awesome, though, imo.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Do you use any of the affected versions of Ruby?&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5L5KsTM6wr0/Tv09CE6WJRI/AAAAAAAACEQ/HkeFY3jH_f0/s1600/Screen+Shot+2011-12-29+at+11.24.18+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="173" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5L5KsTM6wr0/Tv09CE6WJRI/AAAAAAAACEQ/HkeFY3jH_f0/s200/Screen+Shot+2011-12-29+at+11.24.18+PM.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="GingerNoCheckStart"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I came across the RVM GUI today (it's called &lt;a href="http://jewelrybox.unfiniti.com/"&gt;JewelryBox&lt;/a&gt;.) I'm trying this out after having some difficulty installing RVM on my Mac. I got JewelryBox to install, but it's taking forever to get Ruby 1.9.3 downloaded, so I'm still in that phase (the 'net is slow tonight.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;Does anyone have any experience using JewelryBox? If so, do you like it? Why or why not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: I ended up giving up on JewelryBox as it was never able to download Ruby. If anyone is able to get this working, let me know what you did. This seems like an awesome project, but unfortunately, it didn't work out for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/TalRiOK_Www" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/2909387502761464065/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=2909387502761464065&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/2909387502761464065?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/2909387502761464065?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/TalRiOK_Www/jewelrybox-official-rvm-gui.html" title="JewelryBox, The Official RVM GUI" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5L5KsTM6wr0/Tv09CE6WJRI/AAAAAAAACEQ/HkeFY3jH_f0/s72-c/Screen+Shot+2011-12-29+at+11.24.18+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2011/12/jewelrybox-official-rvm-gui.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IMRHk9eCp7ImA9WhVWF0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-2938463937661343489</id><published>2011-12-02T05:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-04-30T00:53:05.760-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-30T00:53:05.760-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="press" /><title>Interview is Out!</title><content type="html">My interview on HubPages came out!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I totally cheated an took a peek at the newsletter before receiving it in my inbox by checking on HubPages' newsletter page. (Kind of like how my mom opened her Christmas gifts on December 1st.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anyway, you can &lt;a href="http://hubpages.com/about/newsletter/2011-11-30"&gt;check out my interview here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/Q6R47dddWQE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/2938463937661343489/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=2938463937661343489&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/2938463937661343489?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/2938463937661343489?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/Q6R47dddWQE/there-is-awesome-in-this-sauce-i-can.html" title="Interview is Out!" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2011/12/there-is-awesome-in-this-sauce-i-can.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D08AQ3o4fyp7ImA9WhNVFEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-5869590136908773152</id><published>2011-10-27T03:03:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2012-12-25T01:10:42.437-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-12-25T01:10:42.437-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ruby" /><title>Ruby DocTest with Victor Goff of RubyLearning</title><content type="html">I did a Google+ hangout/interview with &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116568773932133159290"&gt;+Victor Goff&lt;/a&gt; who taught me how to use Ruby DocTest. It reminded me of RSpec, but the key difference is that Ruby DocTest is used with IRB returns. Nifty, right?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Of course, I had to install a new gem.  You can install it by running:&lt;br /&gt;
gem install rubydoctest&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Victor created a file, hello.rb which contains code in a comment block. By running the following command, we ran an IRB session in the code comments:&lt;br /&gt;
rubydoctest hello.rb&lt;br /&gt;
This is what we created:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;script src="https://gist.github.com/1318931.js"&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The =&amp;gt; line is the 'expectation, or the assertion, or the 'should be' line as it would be for RSpec.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I learned that upon the creation of a new test that causes other tests to fail, it's best to ignore the older tests and work on the new feature until it passes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On a side note, unrelated to Ruby DocTest, I also learned how to use a default param in Ruby. I had already known what it was, but this was the first time I got to see it in action. :P&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Why would I choose Ruby DocTest over RSpec?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;When teaching new programmers, and new programmers to Ruby, they are going to use IRB to do their testing anyway. Why have the RSpec/minitest/test-unit framework overhead to learning? You can IMMEDIATELY get them thinking about how their methods return things, and testing, and measuring... with 0 additional overhead in learning. Also, it shows them that documentation and examples in their own programs is easy to do, and it doesn't get 'stale' when it is executable. They learn that they can safely refactor under test.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;The advantage to having documentation would be that you can use rdoc to document your methods (and it is testable) and it also serves as example usage for those using your documentation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;In Real Life... Ruby DocTest for what I use it for is small snippets and portions of programs that I may not understand the domain well enough to actually write tests first. The IRB session right there let's me get feedback from my program... (And I don't necessarily have to open up an IRB session).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Victor Goff writes for &lt;a href="http://rubylearning.org/"&gt;RubyLearning.org&lt;/a&gt; where programmers can take courses to further their Ruby (and general programming) education. I met Victor on Google+ and while I've not participated in his 
RubyLearning courses, they appear to be very interesting and 
educational. (Definitely worth checking out.)&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:4cEx4HpKnUU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?i=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?a=7plOHfhv8Es:NGELZg1kpFQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CodeGurl?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/7plOHfhv8Es" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/5869590136908773152/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=5869590136908773152&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/5869590136908773152?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/5869590136908773152?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/7plOHfhv8Es/ruby-doctest-with-victor-goff-of.html" title="Ruby DocTest with Victor Goff of RubyLearning" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2011/10/ruby-doctest-with-victor-goff-of.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEIHRXw5cCp7ImA9WhNTFkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-3957651540898229945</id><published>2011-10-18T01:31:00.013-04:00</published><updated>2012-10-19T21:28:54.228-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-10-19T21:28:54.228-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="HTML" /><title>Blogger Trick: Resize Ads Using an 'If' in Markup</title><content type="html">I wanted to put ads on CodeGurl, but was having a problem with it looking tasteful, while still being effective. A 200 x 200 pixel ad unit (embedded at the top right of each post) is more effective in terms of CTR than a 125 x 125 pixel unit. The 200 x 200 pixel ad unit looks great in an individual blog post. However, when on the homepage, if a post has an image, the image will appear at the top left of the post. Because of this, it makes the blog look like garbage.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
To fix this, I had to make some changes to my template. I wanted to make it so that when a user is on the homepage, the ad unit at the top right of each post is 125 x 125 pixels, but when they are viewing an individual post, the ad unit is 200 x 200.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;script src="https://gist.github.com/1318900.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;To fix this, I changed the code to this:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;script src="https://gist.github.com/1318901.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djqQ5fFxXQ0/Tp0N0-oqdfI/AAAAAAAABBQ/KjR_DDKuM8U/s1600/Square_200x200.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djqQ5fFxXQ0/Tp0N0-oqdfI/AAAAAAAABBQ/KjR_DDKuM8U/s1600/Square_200x200.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IjN6finflgk/Tp0PIRu2XBI/AAAAAAAABBY/W9KmDRSGhjw/s1600/125x125.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IjN6finflgk/Tp0PIRu2XBI/AAAAAAAABBY/W9KmDRSGhjw/s1600/125x125.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This really seems to work out really well. I have a few slight things to work out on the images, such as some slight padding so that a post's text doesn't smush right up against the ad unit. I am too lazy to make the change right now.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hopefully I don't encounter any problems with this change. I might have to check out past blog posts to see how it looks, especially ones where I've placed an image (in-post) at the top right.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I've added a 200 x 200 pixel image and a 125 x 125 pixel image to this post so that you can see the difference in size of the ads. :)&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
One thing I would like to add is that I agree with what I said to the question: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;What would you tell young naturally thin girls struggling with their self esteem?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PVoWXVt0TVQ/Tqp3b8f0RZI/AAAAAAAABLY/XBywPdMkz3Y/s1600/extrasmall.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="137" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PVoWXVt0TVQ/Tqp3b8f0RZI/AAAAAAAABLY/XBywPdMkz3Y/s200/extrasmall.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;However, I said it out of appropriateness. What I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; wanted to say was essentially what I should have done in high school: If someone is mean to you, tell them to go f*ck themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
Hell, I could have used some advice like that, but eh, c'est la vie.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just wanted to clarify that question a bit. :P&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
I was able to complete the homework. Aside from the Internet constantly going out, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I made some mistakes in syntax, but the idea I had was in the right direction, so that wasn't so bad. The quiz questions at the end of the chapter were easy as pie, which, to me, means I probably got them totally wrong (that's how things work for me.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next chapter is on hashes which will be interesting. Hopefully that's fairly straightforward. We'll see, we'll see.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
I read the chapter last night and it's the first time in the course where I didn't understand anything that was happening. I read on to see if I could piece it together, but alas I am at a wall. A brick one. Hopefully I'll get it after I muck through it again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In other news, I went through my articles on HubPages and I either need to actually try to rank for the keywords which I've written articles around OR write more articles. I really don't feel like going around and grabbing up backlinks. That said, none of the articles on my list are anything I really feel like writing about. I'll have to find a way to raise the bar on my motivation when it comes to writing.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
I have a few short essays in the chapter to complete, but then I get to move on to creating my first subroutines in Perl. Finally!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Things will be winding down with Perl after the next few chapters and then the course with be over. I'll (probably) have the Python course next. I'll take that road when I get to it (or however that idiom goes.)&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CodeGurl/~4/Jp3owzjof80" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.codegurl.com/feeds/8878039947706909427/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6254552578172391456&amp;postID=8878039947706909427&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/8878039947706909427?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6254552578172391456/posts/default/8878039947706909427?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CodeGurl/~3/Jp3owzjof80/i-think-i-got-it-context.html" title="I Think I Got It (Context)" /><author><name>Melanie Shebel</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/111633725541752229957</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cGIKH-lWEqI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGpY/PGBzbRf6URg/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.codegurl.com/2011/09/i-think-i-got-it-context.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkEERX8ycSp7ImA9WhNQF0Q.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254552578172391456.post-1835554430316589083</id><published>2011-09-17T04:35:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2012-11-24T18:10:04.199-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-11-24T18:10:04.199-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Perl" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="context" /><title>Wrapping My Head Around Scalar &amp; List Context</title><content type="html">I've been working on learning the various nuances of scalar and list context in Perl. It seems straightforward, but I am worried I'm not getting things 100%. There is a lot of scary talk basically saying if I don't learn it, bad things will happen. This sort of leads me to believe that this might either be difficult stuff or easy to overlook.&lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, one example which was an array in scalar context output something I didn't expect. I expected the script to spit out the array in a string, but rather it gave me 6, which is the number of elements in the array. I'm pretty sure I know why, but I'll just have to do the homework to see if I'm really grasping this concept.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Anyway,  I have thusly decided to move on with the cert in which I am enrolled,  thus I will be learning Python next and not continuing with Perl. There  are a few reasons for this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I would like to learn Python and the other languages in the cert I'm in.&lt;br /&gt;
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Okay so that's one reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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