第一节课

今天刚上完在美国的第一节课，Programming Languages。主讲的 Prof. Flanagan 是一个很年轻的教授，语速很快，我觉得我最多听懂了六成的内容。课的内容并不是对某几个语言进行解释剖析，而是概观地对编程语言的历史，特点，要求等等进行介绍和讨论。一个很大的不同是，当每个同学介绍自己喜欢的语言时，很多人更倾向于Perl, Python, Ruby这些脚本语言，这些在国内基本上是十分生僻的。Prof. Flanagan则很喜欢Java。

我这学期的TA也要求会一点Perl, 所以还是要花功夫在这些原先不熟悉的脚本语言上。

研究生的生活比想象的要累啊。

The first 4 days in USA

I'm using the computer in the Library of UCSC to write down this article. Since there is no Chinese Input Method, I can just only use English. Sorry.

I was a terrible journey flying to America. Due to some "Mechanic Problem", the flight from Chengdu to Beijing was delayed, for about 3 hours. Therefore, I did not catch the original flight from Beijing to San Francisco. After 5 hours terrible waiting, I finally got on an airplane flying to Los Angeles. 11 hours on plane, no deep sleep, I had been very tired. Entering the Custom and Border Protection was straight. 1 hour later, I flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco. When I got there, it was 10:00 pm, PST. Fortunately, Peggy Pollard, a member of ISI(International Student Inc.) came to the airport and pickup to Santa Cruz. It was very kind of her!

I was living with four Chinese exchange students temporarily. We got along with each other very friendly. They told me lots of things here, about housing, banking, campus, calling plan, yard-sale, etc.. Yesterday, I settled down in a house near the beach of Santa Cruz, which was a wonderful place to live, full furniture, $560 rental per month, plus month to month payment. I do not hope better.

Santa Cruz is a small town, with about 56000 population, mediterranean climate, friendly people. There is no crowd of people, and all town is quiet. Santa Cruz means "Holy Cross", which is famous for the beach and surfing here. Everybody should like it. By the way, bus transportation is powerful in Santa Cruz.

The campus is wonderful, too, since it is sitting on a hill and in a forest. More properly, I should say, UCSC is just a part of the Mt. Santa Cruz, because the natural environment here is well preserved. You can see deers eating grass, and squirrels are fighting for nuts. Inside of the forest, the temperature is very low, but the air is even more fresh. I can say, I like here.

There can be lots of things to tell, but I must stop here. I think my oral English is growing better and better everyday.

:)

最近的情况

最近逐渐熟悉了Colemak键位，打字速度开始恢复了。确实，世上无难事，只怕有心人。

关于RecycleTorrent，我完成了应有的基本功能，已经把代码传到了SourceForge。SourceForge上RecycleTorrent项目的地址是http://sourceforge.net/projects/recycletorrent/。同时，编译后的程序可以在我的Windows Live SkyDrive上下载（运行需要安装最新的Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package）。对BitTorrent感兴趣的开发者可以试试。

另外，最近打算将RecycleTorrent扩展成P2P下载平台。具体细节我还在考虑。