Activity 4 (Prequel): Lunix Lunacy!

I’m blogging right now as I wait for the binary source code of Scilab to finish downloading (initially it said 1 day then it toned down to 12 hours and now it’s only 2 hours…) . I’ve been facing the computer for more than 12 hours now and I’m still forcing myself to not back out as I’m slowly, slowly, REALLY SLOWLY progressing… at some point. How’d I end up in this kind of mess? Well… let’s just say that my pride got in the way!

For our latest activity, it required the use of a special function called follow() which sadly was only available with the SIP toolbox. This module was not updated in a way that it fit the Scilab version I have currently installed. Since the follow() function basically just traces the outline of a shape and it follows a certain path (clockwise or counter-clockwise)… this should technically be easy to implement on my own.

Now that was where I went wrong.