Yearly revised blog post sum up

Two six weeks ago after taking the six weeks final, I started work on what I now consider to be fairly basic labs. These labs involved having a keyboard input, and a program to calculate simple functions like addition. I had no clue how to do these, until I finished the most basic labs which we had to do, and had to go over the power points several times and ask friends how to start. Once I started though, my growth in each area began to build, growing faster and faster, until around the time of a quiz, at which point I would be prepared and make an ok grade. All the while through I would discuss my work with my peers and teacher in order to get a better understanding of what I was doing. As the concepts were explained to me by the people around me, I worked on my individual labs, I finished up the worksheets, and I watched the presentations on the board, my general knowledge on the subject as a whole and the usage of computers grew. At the beginning of the year my general knowledge on the subject of computers was limited to the use of the internet and a word processor. I could type up my assignments and play games online, but otherwise I was fairly clueless on how to use a computer. I did not know how anything worked, and like many other people, I just hoped that the tech geeks who assembled my computer could do anything for me. Now, even if I do not know how to create computer software from scratch, I understand the basic concepts behind some of java and C+ programming languages. I know how to create codes to calculate equations, output simple graphics, and even create repetitive actions based on an outside situation
My progress throughout the year has worked in much the same way as my weekly and monthly progress would work. At first I had no clue what was going on with the new labs and blog posts and everything, but throughout the year I have settled into a routine. I started without even vaguely understanding the concept, but after the easy bits at the beginning, I began to see how everything fit together. Now the work is a bit harder, and the final will be quite difficult, but there is meant to be a challenge in the end. While at some points, what I was doing at the time seemed ridiculously easy and unnecessary, so I got off task, at other times the labs were fully engaging and immersed the students so completely that it would be a disappointment to leave the class for our next period. Times would be split between the complete calms at the beginning of a subject, to the absolute panic which occurred moments before a quiz or a test. Over all I think that I learned what I both needed to and wanted to at the beginning of the year, so I am looking forwards to the rest of the year.

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(for some reason this one double posted)