Blog Post for week of Dec 11

So this post has to be long and reviewing the semester so far.

I only have three minutes, so I guess I better get cracking.

When I joined the course (on last minute basis, hahah) I figured we'd be doing the sort of thing we're doing now, but only for a few weeks. My mind imagined a sort of programming grandeur, where we'd make our own programs and even apps for phones, etc.

I don't know if we'll get onto that sort of thing later on, but I'm not saying I'm disappointed so far.

If anything, taking a long time in all these basic programming sequences has helped me realize I have to pay attention to detail and that what I write is certainly not infallible.

I've learned a lot doing these basics, but I certainly hope we'll get on to a big and really interesting project soon....or else I honestly will be a bit disappointed in the course (and perhaps myself more, hehe)

In any case, even if we don't get onto that sort of thing, I'll try and take advanced computer programming! So far the class is really fun and I like the atmosphere (and lose deadlines). It's really stress free, and being able to control things at my every whim is fun. Nobody can deny that.

Blog post for week of Dec 4

Still working on Jeroo.

I got stuck on one of the challenges, and it's lasted almost 3 days! I feel as though I need to take a new approach to it, but I'll feel like a failure for not making this work...

why must dignity be so important?!?!?!?

Blog post for week of November 13

All we've been doing lately is Jeroo, which I must admit, I don't find as fun as scratch.

Plus at least Scratch worked most of the time. There are moments where my coding in Jeroo is flawless, and it still freaks out on me and decides not to do anything.

The next day I open up that same code? BAM IT WORKS.

I also understand that Jeroo is supposed to be teaching us about programming in Python, etc, but at the moment all it seems we're doing is coding for virtual kangaroos to not kill themselves (which I admit, I cause this a lot)

I really want to see how this will relate to coding outside the...game? I'm not really sure as to exactly what Jeroo is.

Post for October 30 week

Bawww, I really wanted to do a final project in scratch. I don't have enough time to do it in my personal time, and doing it at school would've been a great opportunity.

It's okay though, it's okay. **holds back tears**

I think Jeroo is fun to mess with, mostly when the Jeroo falls into the water....

i mean...um, that's not funny at all!

Poor Jeroos....

in any case, I hope we get to do fancier coding than "hop()" "plant()" and "turn()"

the coding also reminded me of the hulk ( BETTY HOP, BETTY PLANT)

I'd like to use a program where we come up with the coding all by ourselves, instead of having a premade stage like Jeroo. I think it's only useful to teach, but not to mess around with by yourself, as going through a plot is no fun when you made the island yourself...

....but that's just me....

Post for October 23 week

This week was very fun.

Messing with scratch is very fun, and redoing coding to make it do what you want it to do is great.

I had a good deal of fun with the number guessing game, as I made Sprite look like a zombie (not sure why) and an attitude.

So much fun

Post for October 16 week

I

could

not

do

that

last

challenge

I think my mind was too busy not understanding how putting codes in edited an image, to understand how to do it. How does that happen? Can I use any image? My mind has to deeply understand how something came to be before I get it, and I did not get that!

Also, I had a pretty low opinion of scratch before, but then I saw taht awesome game, and I think scratch has a lot of potential! The activities are fun to do, for me!

Post for October 9 week

Finishing website. I like how it turned out, but only on the very basic sense of it. I don't think my understanding of CSS was deep enough for me to arrange the website as I would've liked it to be, but it was still a website I don't have to be ashamed of. I wish I had had better content to put in it! (hahahaha)

In any case, this was a good refresher on web coding

Post for October 3 week

I really like CSS!

With HTML, it took an excessive amount of coding and layering of that coding for anything I did to look like I wanted it to. But with CSS, I can just make it do so with a few words!

I hadn't used CSS much before, but I know I will with future projects.

The only thing I had issues with is that once I used a specific coding for positioning of one thing (such as a paragraph), I couldn't have anything after it without it being positioned this way as well (as in, a secondary paragraph would also be positioned like the first), and if I tried repositioning only that one, it would position the first one.

Never figured out how to fix that bug...

This week we finally got into making concrete things! That's all I ever wanted!

I rather like doing HTML, but I also want to learn how to do CSS better. And since it seems we'll be learning about Java Script, that's what I'm the most excited about.

I've been told that you can make programs and iPhone/iPad/Smart-phones in general apps with Java script. I'd be incredibly excited to learn how to do that!

I also enjoyed doing the ordering activities. It made me really focus on how our brains themselves put things in order too....which is something we overlook. It's a lot tougher with a computer, which I suppose is why it would be so hard to create artificial intelligence...

This week was shorter than I would've liked....still not used to this schedule. Although, can't say I was particularly wild about what we did this week. I feel like I'm the karate kid since I'm thinking "LET'S GET TO PROGRAMMING!" but first, we have to do a bunch of stuff we don't want to do.

I'm sure it'll come in handy...eventually. Hopefully...

In any case, the most fun activity we did was on Thursday, with those odd problem-solving...problems. The wording made them a bit confusing, and at times I just wanted to make some kind of snarky remark as an answer, but eventually we [think we] figured it out.

I think I liked that last problem the most, though. It was easier to visualize for me than the others.

Blog the Second!

Not nearly as late as the first one!

Had quite a bit of fun this week, even though I ended up only being in class one day (I got sick on Friday)

From what I did get to be in this week, though, I really liked. I had already known about Wordle, but I hadn't been on it in quite a while and it was really fun to play with it and find all the words that are constantly repeated in websites I take part on (like my personal blog, etc)

I also liked finding that odd, Glogster website. While I wouldn't use it to try and make anything proffessional, I find that it's fun to mess with it and it helps me get ideas flowing for something I'd like to design myself. I really like doing design-related things, but I don't really like it when everything's pre-made for you which is why I don't incredibly love that Glogster feature. I liked drawing with other people on it though, it was fun to draw over everyone else's drawings and it was kind of like having a doodle war! I'll have to catch up and see what I missed on Friday!

Post the First

It's really embarrassing that this is so incredibly late...doing homework assignments due online isn't usually one of the usual things I remember, so I should really mark this as important in my calendar.

In any case, this week (of Aug 28-Sept 3)was fun, got to learn about different types of computers, which is great, because, even though the interview wasn't about me, I've been meaning to get a new computer and I got to learn about a lot of cool ones that I'd be interested in saving up for. Specially laptops, as I didn't know that they were actually capable of doing all a desktop computer can do.

I also did read Blown to Bits, and while I haven't gotten to the report yet, I have to say, all that information is something that's come across to me, but I never really dwelled on. A lot of the things that they've said, like how an image is just a bunch of bits that the computer knows how to arrange, seems incredibly confusing and perhaps impossible, but in the end, I suppose I wouldn't expect a computer to see things, like we might.

When I read about the technological revolution, it makes me worry a bit, to be honest. I imagine that if for some terrible reason, all technological things were to shut off at a random moment, the world would undoubtedly go into chaos. People wouldn't be able to communicate, I'm sure many would die. Lots would not have access to important documents, that, because now physical documents are obsolete, would make their lives much harder.

Worse yet, to even think of, is if all the information stored in the massive amount of technological objects we have were to be deleted, the world would go into an indescribable panic.

I suppose we can only hope that never happens!

Wordle is AWESOME. I posted the link to my blog outside this and this is what came up. Ravenclaw is in there around 3 times....