Apr 18 2005
Bees
I need to get up to speed on object oriented Perl, so I’ve been on the lookout for some sort of project that I could build a bunch of objects around. I had promised some relatives a lotto tracking website, but it lacks real object-meat. It’ll be more about user interface design and database interaction than OO design. Last week on the Scandinavian Cooking show, the host put on a bee suit and made some sort of berry / fresh honey smoothie. It reminded me that I’ve always thought that bee-keeping would be a fun hobby.
“A-ha!” I thought, “this would be fun to try and model.” So, I just got back from the Harold Washington Library with two bee-keeping books, A Book of Bee’s and The Beekeeper’s Handbook. I’ve started building some classes on index cards. So far I have, the world, bees, flowers, and hives. I feel like I’m writing a sixth grade science report.
As for bee-modeling, I don’t know if I’ll actually produce anything worth noting from this excercise. It’s all very fun though.
