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.