The ruby download is complete.  I can’t say I understand fully what I have done.  I can say I couldn’t do it again, even if you DID pay me.  My screen shots to prove to the prof that I accomplished this are very odd; for some reason they incorporate not just the screen shot of the web page I created, but also a shot of my desktop image, Katie in her crate.  Drats.  I need to fix that before I submit the homework.  Or not.  Maybe the prof would LIKE to see Katie looking woefully out of her crate.

After I finished the assignment yesterday evening, about 8 hours after I sat down to work on what was supposed to be a 15 minute assignment, the professor emailed that he had created yet another podcast to explain away some of the issues I ran into.  He urged me to review the podcast even though I was finished with the assignment.  I’ll do that next.  I feel like I have to stay ahead of the game in order to merely keep up.  He says next week he will give less instruction…that doesn’t sound good to me.  He thinks this work is trivial and we’ll move right along into the real world of computer languages.  I’m treading water now, with a feeling that drowning is a distinct possibilty in the very near future.

Meanwhile it’s very cold here, with the wind blowing, the sun shining and snow on the ground I am grateful to be inside with nowhere to go.  No excuses not to read and listen to more computer jargon.  Someday I will make that jargon mine.  Maybe even before the midterm!