Missed class :(

Unfortunately, today I went to the Milne Park Cross Country meet, so I wasn't able to go to class today. Apparently, we were taught how to upload via SFTP and our homework was to do the basic computer glossary... which I don't know what it is. Today I will finish up my glossary and yeah...cross country was fun. Very relaxing day.

Lots of Things Accomplished

Okay, today we had a review on the basic html structure we are expected to use. We continued working on our glossary, specifically inputting the formal definitions, which is a real pain for me right now, it takes so much time! Right now I am attempting to log in to the class server but I can't connect for some reason...I guess I have to ask some classmates if it's working for them or not. That's all for today, see you tomorrow.

Stressful

Wow, a lot was going on in class today... good AND bad things. The good was that I got a decent amount of work finished- getting my definitions for all the terms in my webpage and removing some invalid components... The bad was that I got into some trouble with Mr. Arkin and I'll leave it at that. Tonight I will be continuing to work on my glossary...

Busyy Dayyyy

Today we were taught some of the basics of list making via html, including the different list types, such as ordered, non-ordered, and definition lists. Following that we were assigned to complete a class glossary and upload it to our website. For today, we brainstormed some quick, casual definitions for each term, then later on we would research some formal ones from the web or a book. Relating to that, we were taught the proper formats for citing resources. Overall  everyone was at work and there's a lot to do.

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I just came back home, ready to upload my peer marking sheet, when I found out the password was changed... I couldn't get the peer marking sheet uploaded, so in terms of fairness, I'm feeling it's pretty bad. Anyways, I'm glad theres many others who didn't get the chance to upload as well. Hopefully all the work we put in September wasn't put to waste...

Working Day

Today, we never had a lesson, but I'm pretty sure it was a very productive day for everyone in the class. Tomorrow is the due date of out assignment and we're all rushing to finish. That's for today!

Today

We confirmed the marking scheme for the autobiography today, and continued working, and also went over some troubleshooting tips. That's about it for today.

Questions answered.

Today Mr. Arkin cleared up all the questions about referencing to files in different folders/subdirectories. For example, to go to a subdirectory, the subdirectory name must be input, slash, and then the file name ("images/fire.jpeg">. To go up a level from a subdirectory to the parent folder, "..." then slash must be input. (".../images"). The marking scheme was explained, then we continued working on our assignment, just like every day.

A Typical Day

Today, our lesson was about file transferring over the world wide web and we learned more about servers and clients and how they work together. After listening to the lesson we resumed working on our sites, specifically finishing our auto-biographies, which I still need to edit. Overall, today was pretty normal, except that I got to class a few minutes late today -.-

Yeah...

Not the best class so far...we learned a few special character entities, but of course we can always google that up. And Arkin DJ'ed today and we'll have another person do it next time. Well, that's about it so... peace.

Function Shortcuts and more work on webpages...

Alight, today pretty much followed the same structure as every other day. We had a lesson on the very commonly used shortcuts for Windows and the firefox browser. Some shortcuts were very primitive, and they just aren't efficient enough to match the new features of Windows XP or Windows 7. Nevertheless, it was good to know them (I actually never knew they existed previously). Anyways, today was not at all productive for me considering the construction of my website, in fact I don't think anyone was. But, I'm going to be working on making the themes uniform on my site tonight so it will look a lot more proffesional.

Some Problems Solved.....

Today wasn't much less confusing than it was yesterday, surprisingly...I hoped that I would've found out the source to my broken link, but unfortunately it didn't happen. I tried modifying everything, but it just doesn't seem to work. Maybe there's something that I just don't know about this. Anyways, in terms of the whole class, a lot seemed to have been accomplished. The majority of people now have their pages uploaded and validated, which is good, although today it was very hard to connect to our classroom's server since so many people were trying to connect and there's a limited capacity. -.- Okay, at least I'm not falling behind.. almost got my Superpowers assignment finished. I wonder what we're going to learn tomorrow?...

A Hard Day for all...

From the beginning of the class to the end, there were signs everywhere of EXTREME CONFUSION. After Mr. Arkin assigned us to upload our website to touque.ca yesterday, it was all stress since a lot of people didn't know how to do it. In fact, it took me a while last night to figure it all and get the validation right... -.- well, at least I figured it all out by the end of last night...I still have to finish the Autobiography assignment though. Today it just seemed like most people weren't able to get Filezilla up and running not to mention logging into our class account. I would like to mention Felix Lam for providing me the access codes for our class account! Helped me alot! If I couldn't get into our class account, I wouldn't have made any progress last night...Anyways, hopefully everyone would've figured everything out tonight, and we could actually be productive next class! Today was a big pain for all, but tomorrow has got to be better! ~DO OUT

Confusing Class...

Today was a day for figuring things out and lots of confusion all around the class. To start the class off, Mr. Arkin gave us a lesson about uploading to filezilla and trasferring our webpages to the main hub, which we can access from any computer. That was the part I was stuck on for pretty much the rest of the class- accessing our class' server. Otherwise, working on the Super Powers assignment was okay; nothing very special really came up... Tonight I think I'm going to work on uploading whatever I have atm and also adding on to my website of course :)

SO FAR SO GOOD!

Ok, today was quite stressful, having gym in the morning, draining all of my abilities to properly think. As soon as lunch was over I was pretty tired and almost fell asleep in english class! By the time I arrived at ICS, I was just about ready to sleep. Despite this, I actually accomplished something, by practicing using the tags and organizing my containers in HTML format. We played around with a collection of cool java widgets such as  clocks that follow your mouse, introductory pop-ups, and more, obviously created by other users. :) I think today is the last day I will be experimenting with the HTML and CSS language, because over weekend I will be working on the Super-Powers assignment!

I have to get started on the essay portion of the assignment... I got the basic style sheet set up and a brainstorming of what I'm going to include on the site, but I just haven't gotten to the actual writing part. I guess I got a story to write up. I'm pretty sure I have my fictional super power now...visit my site later to find out!

MADE MY FIRST WEBPAGEE!!!!!

Today we experimented with the html and css properties we learned yesterday! A lot of people, including myself had lots of trouble in the begginning, but we eventually solved our problems and everything worked great. Experimenting with the different tags and researching them was very fun and we freely modified our web pages to whatever we liked. Our supply teacher, Ms. Ecker is pretty nice, but she is a bit clueless about what's going on. UPDATE: YES!!!! I GOT MY LINK TO MY AUTOBIO TO WORK!!! On firefox at least... I still need to view my page on Internet Explorer.

Fundamentals of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets

We were given a tutorial on the basic elements of HTML coding and an intro to CSS today with Mr. Arkin. I learned the basics of using tags, the meanings of many "before unknown" technical terms such as container and rendering...seems like a very fun course. Happy Rosh Hashanah to Mr. Arkin and all my Jewish friends.

1st Day at VPCI

At computer studies today we learned about Mr. Arkin and we received a brief introduction of this course. We introduced ourselves to each other and at the end of the class our assignment was assigned. This class is going to be verrry interesting and i'm curious about what awesome things we're going to learn this semester. So far it's so good.