First Day of Internship
January 5th, 2009 by Brad HeapOkay today was interesting.
I am very tired and now thinking about how much of a challenge I have for me over the next seven weeks on a project that looked so simple from the outset.
I was meant to start work at 8.30am this morning and I had no idea how hard it would be to get carparking and stuff like that. In the end I arrived at 8.10am before anyone else. Doh! Anyway my manager arrived at around 8.20am and we got stuck in pretty quickly.
First things first involved setting up a computer for me. About 10 minutes later I had a computer and desk and 22in moniter to work from and a network login. And by 8.50am I had my first hello world program compiled.
Initially I turned down using visual studio in favour of remaining with gcc. However I quickly discovered that I needed it for some project files and got it installed. (this then came back to bite me as I spent half the afternoon waiting for service pack one to install).
I am also trying to get used to using a huge moniter but not having dual screens. I think I prefer my home set up with 2 19in screens.
My morning consisted of a lot of googling and reading to determine if I could use some LGPL code in a closed source application. In the end we determined that if the LGPL code that was used remained LGPL and open then we could.
My afternoon consisted of trying to get my head around some C code written 20 or so years ago.
This isn’t easy. All the variables are just two letters and there are very few comments in the code. I think it will take me the rest of the week to fully understand how the code works. From then I will need to start working on updating it and making the project.
