NOTE: This weekly status report is late because I accidentally put it on my first blogger account that I made for TIK instead of this one. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This week I wasn't in class for a day because of my music festivals but we didn't do much in class anyways. On Monday, we had the first test of the course about flowcharts. Then on Tuesday, we had our first lesson on visual basic. Unfortunately, the program wasn't loaded onto all of the computers yet so we didn't get to try out the program until Wednesday. The lesson only took half of the period so for the other half of the period, we worked on math and word problems. Wednesday was the first visual basic day to work on the computers but I had to go to my music festival so I was behind a bit. On Thursday, I finished the first VB program that we were supposed to make (tax calculator) . It was really cool to actually create a program. Then on Friday, I got the next sheet which had some more programs that we were supposed to create. I only got through the first two and I dint want to get too far behind so I downloaded the program at home and finished them.
I faced a couple challenges while creating my fifth program (TIKVB4) and a time challenge. the time challenge was just that I didn't want to get too far behind the whole class since if I was, then I might not understand what the we would be discussing during the future lessons. I solved this problem by just downloading the program at home so I could catch up to where everyone else is. The problems which I encountered during the creation of my TIKVB4 program was that I didn't quite understand what it was asking for, and I didn't know how to get all of the different information (first/last name and age) into one textbox. After reading the question over, about 5 times, I finally realized that it wanted the user to be able to input their first and last name, and their date of birth and from that, you would have to create a program that took that information and put it all into one textbox in a certain format. I solved my other problem (not knowing how to put all of the information in one textbox) basically by trial and error. At first I tried to put spaces and commas between the words but that didn't work. Next, I tried to put the different words into brackets but that didn't work either. Finally, I looked over all of the buttons on the keyboard and i saw the "&" button so I put that in and it worked. While I was trying to solve that problem, I also came across how to put separate words into the textbox (using quotation marks) so this made it easier when it was time for me to format the different parts of the information in the textbox.
In the future, I hope to still learn more about this visual basic program since it seems really interesting. I also hope that I learn how to make more complex programs.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Weekly Status Report #2
This week, for me, wasn't as productive as the last week mostly because there wasn't as many tasks to complete which were on the computer. Most of the tasks were just little assignments that we had to do on handouts. One assignment that was more than just a little task was the flowchart task which was given on Friday and to complete for Monday. I didn't do well on that but I learned a couple lessons from it. One of the lessons was that I should thoroughly read the question before i start it so I don't do the right thing. The other lesson that I learned by doing this task was that if I don't fully understand a question, then I shouldn't just put down an answer that I think makes sense just to get it done, I should actually look over my notes or ask someone else so i can understand more and get full marks on that task. Two more assignments that we had to do were an essay about computer ethics and a paragraph on the difference between a mainframe computer and a supercomputer.
In class we went over a lot of topics since we didn't have a lot of other assignments to do. The first thing that we did was talk about different computer terms like hardware, software, and programs. We also went over what output/input/peripheral devices, and how to classify computers (supercomputer, mainframe, minicomputer, microcomputer, and laptop). Then the next thing that we discussed was the different models of computers (simple vs. extended) and the types of memory (secondary/auxiliary memory vs. primary/main memory). Then we got a handout about the different memory sizes and a handout about pseudo code which went along with the flowchart subject. The second last thing that we learned about this week was the different types of software (spreadsheet/word-processing/database). Finally, the last thing that we learned about this week was the cryptography. This was the thing that I enjoyed the most since we got to play with those spinning wheels and encrypt and decrypt messages.
Next week we are having the test on flowcharts and I am planning on studying a lot to do good on it. Also I think that we are going to start learning visual basic and I am looking forward to it since it is new to me and I think it will be interesting to learn a type of programming language. Overall, I think that this class will become much more fun as the weeks go by and we start learning more about the actual programming language and I am really looking forward to it.
In class we went over a lot of topics since we didn't have a lot of other assignments to do. The first thing that we did was talk about different computer terms like hardware, software, and programs. We also went over what output/input/peripheral devices, and how to classify computers (supercomputer, mainframe, minicomputer, microcomputer, and laptop). Then the next thing that we discussed was the different models of computers (simple vs. extended) and the types of memory (secondary/auxiliary memory vs. primary/main memory). Then we got a handout about the different memory sizes and a handout about pseudo code which went along with the flowchart subject. The second last thing that we learned about this week was the different types of software (spreadsheet/word-processing/database). Finally, the last thing that we learned about this week was the cryptography. This was the thing that I enjoyed the most since we got to play with those spinning wheels and encrypt and decrypt messages.
Next week we are having the test on flowcharts and I am planning on studying a lot to do good on it. Also I think that we are going to start learning visual basic and I am looking forward to it since it is new to me and I think it will be interesting to learn a type of programming language. Overall, I think that this class will become much more fun as the weeks go by and we start learning more about the actual programming language and I am really looking forward to it.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
Weekly Status Report #1
This week was a really fun way to start off this course. The main objective of this week was to create a blog which has different features like music, videos, and hyperlinks and has an interesting blog name. Although creating the blog was our main objective, we also had little assignments and lessons dealing with the problem solving model and flowcharts.
I finished all of the work that was required for this course, so far, which were to flowchart examples, the flowchart loop examples, and my blog. This was the first that I used a blog and I found it pretty fun. I already added 4 of the extra components which include: add a Hyperlink to my post, add an image to my post, add an audio clip to my post, disable comments for one of the posts, and add a counter to my blog. Additional things that I have put on my blog are the 5 games and a banner. When I was creating my blog, at first, I didnt know how to add a video to it so to overcome that problem I tried to serach on the internet how to but I still couldn't find the solution. When I came to school the next day I saw that some of my friends already had a video on their blog so I asked them how to do it. Luckily, they were nice enough to tell me how they did it. After I learned how to do that, I realized that I might be able to use the same format of embeded code for other things like the counter so I searched on the internet for counters to add. Then I decided to add more to my blog so I used the internet to search for other codes taht I could add to my blog. I found a banner, games and a music player so I added them. The next problem that I encountered was that the games that I added were to big to put on the sidebar even though I wanted four of them to go there and one to go on the bottom like a footer. I then looked at the code and realized that the size was incorporated into the code so when I found it in each of the games, I changed the dimensions around to fit in the sidebar. When I added the extra features to my blog, I encountered another problem too. The problem was that hyperlinks kept appearing along the top of my blog. I realized that they must be from the code that was put in to get the game or banner there so I searched in the code and found where the links were and I deleted that part. One thing that I like about this course is that since we get learn lots of things on our own, I get to experiment witht he codes and wee what controls what objects.
In the future I plan to add lots more features to my blog to make it more interesting like adding photos in my favourites list and maybe adding a poll. I also have the homework that was assigned on friday to complete for monday. A goal that I have for the future is to learn more about applying flowcharts to programs and overall learning more about programming computers and how code works.
I finished all of the work that was required for this course, so far, which were to flowchart examples, the flowchart loop examples, and my blog. This was the first that I used a blog and I found it pretty fun. I already added 4 of the extra components which include: add a Hyperlink to my post, add an image to my post, add an audio clip to my post, disable comments for one of the posts, and add a counter to my blog. Additional things that I have put on my blog are the 5 games and a banner. When I was creating my blog, at first, I didnt know how to add a video to it so to overcome that problem I tried to serach on the internet how to but I still couldn't find the solution. When I came to school the next day I saw that some of my friends already had a video on their blog so I asked them how to do it. Luckily, they were nice enough to tell me how they did it. After I learned how to do that, I realized that I might be able to use the same format of embeded code for other things like the counter so I searched on the internet for counters to add. Then I decided to add more to my blog so I used the internet to search for other codes taht I could add to my blog. I found a banner, games and a music player so I added them. The next problem that I encountered was that the games that I added were to big to put on the sidebar even though I wanted four of them to go there and one to go on the bottom like a footer. I then looked at the code and realized that the size was incorporated into the code so when I found it in each of the games, I changed the dimensions around to fit in the sidebar. When I added the extra features to my blog, I encountered another problem too. The problem was that hyperlinks kept appearing along the top of my blog. I realized that they must be from the code that was put in to get the game or banner there so I searched in the code and found where the links were and I deleted that part. One thing that I like about this course is that since we get learn lots of things on our own, I get to experiment witht he codes and wee what controls what objects.
In the future I plan to add lots more features to my blog to make it more interesting like adding photos in my favourites list and maybe adding a poll. I also have the homework that was assigned on friday to complete for monday. A goal that I have for the future is to learn more about applying flowcharts to programs and overall learning more about programming computers and how code works.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007
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