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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Cool new technology

I recently heard of a new technology that promised to change households everywhere. While this seemed a bit too good to be true, and certainly a far way off from today, it would be very interesting to see them. The new prototype is a multitouch bent desk sized computer, which is the general size and shape as the old arcade machines. It seems like it would integrate technology even more into our lives, because every moment of our life then, even without a computer, would be influenced by our phones or desks. I thought that while interesting and probably fun, it would be nice to have one or two parts of your. While I think that this desk will be interesting and might help some, it will create just another distraction for others. If the technology was refined a bit more so that it did not look like an ugly white brick, then I think that it would be fairly interesting, but at this stage in development, I do not think it will affect anybodies life.

Several weeks ago in comp sci

We have taken a quiz on the old topic and moved onto the new topic of ands/ors. this new topic is just like finding values to a matrix in math; easy, but rather tedious and takes a while when the problems get bigger. The most annoying thing that happens relating to these is when you get one part of the order wrong in a problem and then have to do basically the exact same problem repeatedly but with a slightly different answer. An example was a&&b||c&&d where did and then or then and instead of and then and then or. On some problems this messes up the outputs and becomes really annoying. Otherwise nothing else is new and I mostly get the content.I have noticed that we are doing some review recently, and I think it would be good to step up the review amount in order to get ready for the midterm, because there is nothing like test corrections or retakes for that.

Cool new blog technology

This week on Engadget I read an article about how different tv companies have blocked their video content from being shown on google TV. This has been done apparently because they do not want people to just use their internet in order to view tv shows and not pay for cable. TV companies want to show you as little as possible in order to make you buy a product and thus they do not like to have people watch their videos for free on TV. I think that it is sill that TV companies literally put a block on their website in order for it not to be shown on TV. If people really wanted to watch online shows on their TV, I am pretty sure that they could use their TV as a monitor. The whole debate seems rather silly to me and I think it will annoy some of my peers to see how wrapped up the companies are in profit, rather then the actual product and future of the industry.

Weekly Compsci Update

Last week in Comp Sci, we learned a fair bit. We reinforced the idea of if else if, and started to use loops. We only used for loops to start, which probably simplified the process and made it much easier to understand. The one thing that I made repeated mistakes on though was where to put the semicolons in on for loops. I would always miss one here or there, so I would have errors come up in my programs. This is little more then an annoyance, because it takes little time to fix, but I kinda hope that it will become habit to put the semicolons in the right place soon. Another thing which took me a while to get was right were the for loop stopped. I did not know whether or not you apply the multiplier before or after the Boolean check, but this was resolved by doing several practice problems and having the small portion of the concept re-explained. We also now have a new system of powerpoint presentations which I prefer. Now our screens just have a small bubble which the teacher controls, so that we can work at the same time as we listen and learn, which streamlines the process. That is all for last week cya.

Cool new Blog Tech

This week on Engadget, I read a post about how someone managed to make a gameboy emulator using JAVA. Apparently the only reason that they made the emulator, was in order to prove that java could be useful for such a device. He wanted to show that java was not only useful for creating games, but whole systems. I found this to be pretty cool because up until this point I think that my class mates and I have seen little real world application to what we have been doing, so seeing such a post could remind us that there is more to what we are learning then the ability to find the letter m in compsci. This blog post seemed to show a possible future project for us which made me more excited then ever to be able to do such a thing.

This week in Compsci

Well actually it would be last week, but whatever. It was rather uneventful due to my absence two of the three days of class. On the day that I was there though, I learned about if else if statements and cases. These seemed to be fairly simple, due to their similarities to previous concepts. The only slightly confusing thing about cases, was the need for breaks after every line. One problem I had with the labs that we were supposed to work on was that I did not realize how to use if else ifs at first so I just us if elses. This makes your code really long and complicated with a whole bunch of brackets, so I managed to confuse myself and just make the whole code more complicated then it needed to be. I do not think that these concepts are very difficult so I am glad that we are working on labs a lot more and doing a lot more individual work. A quick explanation of how to use if else ifs and viewing a power point cleared the situation up. Otherwise nothing else happened and the week was uneventful