Hello again!
I’ve decided it might be a good idea to take a little bit of time at the start of each month and evaluate my progress/talk about any new goals I may have picked up. I imagine examining these things on a regular basis might prove helpful in keeping myself on track!
To begin, my primary interest lately has been learning Japanese (as I wrote about in a previous posting, here). Throughout February, I have been mostly keeping up with my reviews on WaniKani, but have a hard time motivating myself to complete the new items. While it’s satisfying to “level up” (WaniKani is divided into 60 levels), each new level means a glut of new items are added. Since the levels are based solely on Radical and Kanji progress, finishing those last few kanji for a level often adds a number of vocabulary words as well. I’m at level 5 now, and my new lessons numbered 123! I’m trying to keep up, even if it means knocking out 10 or so lessons at a time, but a hectic February has made this tough. I’m still dedicated to it, though! My plan is to attain level 10 and then return to Genki I at full force.
I’ve also done some more work on my Elder Scrolls Tabletop app (previously written about here), though not a lot of code yet. Most of this has been an attempt to organize the next features and get a clear picture of the workload. To do this, I’ve employed a Trello board! I had been using it in a semi-serious fashion before, but given my recent work experience with Agile, I’ve been motivated to re-think my approach to making and managing my cards. You can view this board here, and I’ll be writing a quick update on my approach for this site soon.
Finally, a new goal. I’ve been meaning to jump start my cybersecurity studying after picking up the first chapter or so of Practical Reverse Engineering (ISBN-13: 978-1118787311). Much like my futile beginnings in Japanese, there was a key component that I was missing prior to starting. In Japanese, I hadn’t learned the phonetic alphabets, hiragana and katakana. In reverse engineering, I hadn’t learned much Assembly. So I’m going to attempt to remedy this by working through Project Euler in Assembly. Project Euler aims to provide math problems which require the use of programming to solve. Such insular, algorithm-focused problems seem great for learning, and they’ll have the added benefit of allowing me to refresh my math skills as well! I’m quite excited to tackle this, and may write a thing or two about my exploits here. Stay tuned!
That’s it for the March update. I’ve got some good material to write about in the coming month, so I hope you’ll subscribe (using the buttons in the side panel)! Wouldn’t want you to miss anything exciting 😉
Thanks!
Andrew
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