42 daily learning journal

[Chloezhu010]

Feb 14th Fri, 2025

• minishell
  • coding simple shell following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTR00r8vBH8

Feb 13th Thu, 2025

• minishell: start to work on minishell
  • setup team repo
  • create a shared doc to gather resource

Feb 12th Wed, 2025

• philo: validated 100/100
  • by far the most hardcore project among all the projects I've done at 42
  • multithread is hard to debug, when I fixed the data race for large number of philo, then there is issue for small number of philo...

Feb 11th Tue, 2025

• philo: debug
  • doesn't work with large number of philo, eg. 199, 200

Feb 10th Mon, 2025

• philo: debug
  • have philo died for 5 800 200 200

Feb 8th Sat, 2025

• philo: debug
  • run the tester and has helgrind problem

Feb 6th Thu, 2025

• philo: debug the code

Feb 5th Wed, 2025

• philo: worked on the monitor module

Feb 4th Tue, 2025

• philo
  • worked on the init, philosopher, fork, and cleanup module

Feb 3rd Mon, 2025

• philo
  • worked on parse argument, log message, and time module

Feb 2nd Sun, 2025

• philosopher
  • browse through the video list
  • update key concept on project readme
  • start to work on modules

Feb 1st Sat, 2025

• philosopher
  • start to learn the CodeVault's video regarding Unix threads

Jan 31st Fri, 2025

• minitalk: validated 125 / 125
  • got caught a corner case I didn't know before: ./client -1 "message" will shut down the system
  • debug live in front of the corrector lol
• philosopher: start to understand the project

Jan 30th Thu, 2025

• minitalk: debug code

Jan 29th Wed, 2025

• minitalk: debug code
  • whenever the string is long (eg. 3 paragraphs), the message shown from the server is messed up

Jan 28th Tue, 2025

• minitalk: work on bonus part
  • send "ok" from server to client once received the message
  • support unicode

Jan 27th Mon, 2025

• minitalk:
  • setup the server, convert bits to chat
  • setup the client, convert chat to bits, send to the server

Jan 26th Sun, 2025

• push swap:
  • peer correction, validated the project
• minitalk: start to work on the project

Jan 25th Sat, 2025

• push swap
  • debug, clear memory leakage

Jan 23rd Thu, 2025

• push swap
  • worked on sorting part: sort_stack, init_node_a, init_node_b

Jan 22nd Wed, 2025

• push swap
  • finished argument & error handling: av_split.c, error.c
  • finished stack initialization: stack_init.c
  • finished command implementation: push, swap, rotate, rev_rotate.c
  • worked on stack helper function: stack_sorted, stack_len, find_max, find_min
  • worked on sorting part: sort_three

Jan 21st Tue, 2025

• push swap
  • divide the project into modules:
    • arg handling
    • create the stack
    • command implementation
    • sorting algo implementation
    • testing
  • work on header file, main.c, and arg & error handling

Jan 20th Mon, 2025

• push swap
  • finish the video list on linked list
  • code up some example to test around

Jan 19th Sun, 2025

• push swap
  • watch videos on linked list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBZHMkpsTfg&list=PLfqABt5AS4FmXeWuuNDS3XGENJO1VYGxl

Jan 17th Fri, 2025

• push swap
  • start to work on push swap
  • understand the project and watch data structure lecture by cs50

Jan 16th Thu, 2025

• exam02: 100/100

Jan 15th Wed, 2025

• exam02 review
  • bitwise operation & chained list

Jan 13th Mon, 2025

• exam02 review
  • finish level 4 (4 questions)

Jan 12th Sun, 2025

• exam02 review
  • work on level 4 (3 questions)

Jan 11th Sat, 2025

• exam02 review
  • work on level 4 (3 questions)

Jan 10th Fri, 2025

• exam02 review
  • finish level 3 (15 questions)
  • start to work on level 4

Jan 9th Thu, 2025

• exam02 review
  • work on level 3 (7 questions)

Jan 8th Wed, 2025

• exam 02 review
  • finish level 2 (20 questions)

Jan 7th Tue, 2025

• exam 02 review
  • work on level 2 (9 questions)

Jan 6th Mon, 2025

• exam 02 review
  • finish level 1 (12 questions)

Jan 3rd Fri, 2025

• so long: peer evaluation on so long
  • 100/100
• exam 02: start to review exam 02

Jan 2nd Thu, 2025

• so long:
  • debug format norminette
  • update readme: adding demo, project description, file structure, modules and notes

Dec 31st Tue, 2024

• so long: cleanup.c, debug at 42
  • add cleanup.c when error and at the end
  • debug memory leakage

Dec 30th Mon, 2024

• so long: render.c, movement.c, main_movement.c
  • work on rendering module: put all .xpm onto window, incl. render_map, render_player, render_frame
  • work on movement module:
    • listen for key press
    • update player position
    • validate move: not into wall or outside the map scope
    • update game state: if validate, update player's pos & redraw the game
    • handle collectibles & exit

Dec 29th Sun, 2024

• so long: init.c, main_init.c
  • start to work on init.c, incl. init_game, load_texture
  • test game initialization and asset loading with main_init.c

Dec 28th Sat, 2024

• so long: map_utils.c, map_main.c
  • implement flood fill algo module on map_utils.c, incl. duplicate_map, free_tempmap, player_pos, flood_fill, check_accessibility
  • test each sub function on map_main.c

Dec 27th Fri, 2024

• Libft bonus: list functions
  • Learn concept of chained list, typedef struct
  • Implement all list functions, update makefile
• so long: rework on map parsing
• Thoughts
  • If you don't know how to test your code, you definitely don't fully understand what you are coding...

Dec 26th Thu, 2024

• Update libft: incl. ft_printf, get_next_line, update makefile
• so long: map logics
  • debug get_next_line, validate_map function
  • work on collectibles & exit accessibility check
  • need to learn and implement flood fill algo

Dec 25th Wed, 2024

• so long: understand & split modules
  • game initialization
  • map parsing & validation
  • game loop
  • input handling
  • movement & collision
  • rendering
  • game state mgmt
  • cleanup
• start to work on "map parsing & validation"

Dec 24th Tue, 2024

• so long: learn & test around minilibX
  • watch videos, test coding using minilibx manual
  • create test.c files to play around minilibx's functions
  • minilibx repo: https://github.com/42Paris/minilibx-linux
  • minilibx manual: https://harm-smits.github.io/42docs/libs/minilibx
• so long: select game assets
  • free game asset downloads: https://itch.io/

Nov 24th - Dec 24th

• Back to Paris and 42 from a month-long travel, don't even remember how to add 42 header lol
• Finish 4 projects
  • libft: create our first lib
  • ft_printf: recreate printf function
  • born2beroot: setup a VM
  • get_next_line: create a function that reads line by line
• Thoughts
  • self-paced, but there is blackhole (like ddl), so still pretty intense and need to code almost everyday