This past week has been a pretty solid week of studying with 20.5 hours of study time this week. Which brings up My Journey's total to 119.5 hours. I didn't get a chance to mess with the text to speech project this week, I focused mostly on CS 169.1x homework from www.edx.org. 
I definitely  enjoy pair programming with my brother Josh, we've had the opportunity to do it both in person and virtually using Google Docs with the auto-formatting turned off.  It would be so cool if there was a setting on Google docs that automated programming syntax highlighting and auto-correct.
This week I started working on a project with Dan Voell, and my brother called sideprojects.  On this project we are using the Devise Gem that I haven't used before.
This projects feels like a roofing project where tools I have mastered, handtools (Programing without Gems from scratch) might be able to put up the shingles, but if I am doing a large roof or multiple roofs, it will be worthwhile to take the time to learn how to use power tools, (Gems).
Yesterday My brother Josh and I were able to add the score feature to the Ruby4kids Tuturial Gosu game, I hope to push this updated game upto my Github later this week.

I've been working on making a text to voice program in ruby, and I'm thinking there are basically three ways it could be structured, 1.use a small sound library of individual sounds or phonograms, with a pronunciation guide database, which would concatenate the sounds together to form words as the program runs, or 2. have a large sound library of the most common words, and only use a pronunciation guide database on the less common words. or 3. have a small small sound library with with no pronunciation guide database, and only rules how to pronounce words.  I have also been working on my Ruby homework, which is forcing me to better understand how ruby works. I'm still finding the .each technique of doing iterations a bit uncomfortable but I think it'll eventually make my life easier. I missed doing a post last Sunday so I will mention I studied for 18 hrs that week, and I studied 21.5 hrs this past week. which brings up my total study time to 99 hrs!

This past week my studying has been pretty consistent, moving my studying total to 60 hours.  Except for Monday and Tuesday I have managed to study 3 hours a day and have moved from chapter 3 to the middle of chapter 7 of the Michael Hartl's ROR Tutorial. I am looking forward to starting the EDX CS 169 from BerkleyX Tomorrow, Software as a Service.