15052019

Finally got back to work on something today: decided to sit down and work on the backend for the IRC client interface. Not only was I able to finish it, but I actually got it working better than I’d initially hoped, and was able to add a few features to it that I hadn’t planned but are pretty neat. Tomorrow, I’ll get to work on creating the GUI for it (although it actually already looks pretty good on its own, so it’s just a matter of a few finishing touches); once I’m done, I’m thinking I’ll do a write-up for it as well since this is the most complex singular piece of code I’ve built in a while. Here’s the result in action:

Honestly, I feel a slight sense of accomplishment in having not only implemented something fairly technically involved so quickly, but in the process of doing so, transcending my expectations and assumptions about what I believed I was personally capable of as a programmer. My success with this has given me confidence in my abilities as a programmer, which I believe will be very useful at least in the projected short time in convincing me that I’m able to solve problems I previously thought I couldn’t.