Lol, nice one. Today's going to be a rather lackluster posting day for me, apparently.
In unrelated news, I'm going to be leaving soon to the place my dad's working for at the moment (well, he's working part time there, and part time at his own company, because the market is kinda slow, and he's having trouble getting work). I'm gonna be going around the machine shop checking things out, because I've never gotten a chance to see what all that stuff is really like in person, and it's good ot know what you're getting into when you go to college. If all goes well today, I'll have a better idea of what I'm going into, or alternately, I'll realize that that sort of job isn't for me, and have to figure out some other idea for college.
EDIT: I'm waitin for my dad to finish up, and I'm on one of the computers at the workplace right now. so far, I'm most interested in PLC programming. PLC programming involves a rather unique logic system using electrical circuits as switches and such. It's used to control many different types of systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controllerWhat I was introduced to uses
Ladder Logic based programming to control the system. The main difference between Ladder Logic and conventional programming is that Ladder Logic is essentially asynchronous. It is a system that is constantly polling itself for any changes and reacting accordingly. Ladder Logic is really complex, but I find that I actually like it. It's programming on a different level than what I'm used to, and I really like that style.
As far as getting into college for that goes, I think I'll likely need to take a corrospondance course and complete a grade 12 math, since I don't have 1 (you aren't required to do math in grade 12, only up to grade 11.) I'll also have to commute to school, since the course isn't available in midland. But I think this would be a great career to get into.
tl;dr: I liked it, PLCs are cool.
