Weekly Status Report #3

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.