Last weekend I worked on finishing up my games. Midweek I asked Dr. Rosen (my advisor) if he could take a look and give me some feedback while I still had time to make changes. Last Friday he came in and went through all the games and gave me mostly minor suggestions and changes. There was only one game I had to do a lot of work on.

When we had finished he inquired about my plans after graduation. I told him I wasn’t sure but that if I applied for graduate school UCSC would probably be one of them. His response was “and we will definitely accept you,” which was surprising from someone who doesn’t say a whole lot. But I was very appreciative of his approval and when I asked he said he would be happy to write a letter of recommendation for me.

He wanted to come back on monday to spend more time playing the games. I had some work to do, so friday afternoon and monday morning I was pretty busy and a little stressed trying to pull together all the loose ends. Miraculously I got it to the place I wanted it to be, and he was pleased with everything. I spent that afternoon talking to Jay (an undergrad who has worked on this project in the past and will continue to work on it this semester). I explained to him how he had organized my code and answering any questions.

Tuesday I worked on my final report and added more comments to my code. Wednesday I spent creating a executable of the application, which allows it to be loaded onto any computer running microsoft robotics studio. This took a little more time then I would have expected (partly b/c I screwed something up midday and my code was temporarily nonfunctional), but I did eventaully get it working and was able to run the simulation on another computer!