Work Period!

Today. Mr. Arkin was absent! Today's class was quite interesting, because it was quite quiet and we accomplished lots of work, such as fixing our websites and finishing the selection assignment chain. Yesterday was the interview...and..I guess it just didn't turn out very well. Well, it's a brand new day and it's time to start new. That's all for today, seeya!

Q&A for Selection 1-7 and Work Period!

Well, today is just a work period, so it's more time to finish up the selection assignments. Yep, I'm using a few minutes of my work period to type this up. Today, I uploaded Monday's and Tuesday's posts since there was some sort of error at home with blogger. I should be finished the selection assignments today...and an interview with Mr. Arkin tonight. Wish me luck! Seeyaaaaaaaaaa!

Boolean Ops.

Sorry! I haven't posted for the last two days because I can't publish my posts on my pc at home. Maybe there's some bug with the site on the Opera browser...I'll try accessing it on Chrome or Firefox later... Right now I'm at class and it works on explorer..ok. Well, we got a deeper explanation on boolean operators such as 'and', 'or' or 'not'.

Missed a day for XC (Oct. 26)

I wasn`t at class today, but I heard we had a quiz on our past unit, input. Well, I think I`ll do well, hopefully at least, since it is the first quiz of the year. That`s all for today.

Tracing Execution

Today, we learned a very important skill in terms of programming, potentially the most important single skill we will every learn... tracing execution of code in programming (specifically Turing). Basically, we were told to exchange programs with a partner, and we were the "computers"...we had to compile and output the data while providing the values of each variable. Essentially, we were both the user and the PC. Finally, we had a quick lesson on arithmetic operators and relational operators. Yep, we learned quite a bit today. SEEYA!

FINISHED!

As of right now, I have finished, printed out and made sure there aren`t any flaws in my programs for the input assignment. It took me almost a week, but I`m finally finished!

Missed many classes...

Wow, today was only the second full ICS class of the week for me! My last blog post was on monday, which was the other class I had. I missed Tuesday's class due to the regional cross country meet I ran at, and did pretty well, and yesterday was the student rep speeches assembly and also info on volunteering. Now, we are continuing to work on the Input Assignments, and we are expected to be nearly finished.

WOWWW!

Oh wow! Honestly...I completely forgot about updating my blog for the past week! Anyways, our class is now pretty adequate at programming with Turing, although it is kind of a "beginner" language. Last week in a nutshell: lots of notes, repetitive work and learning! We are on our way with programming and making good progress!

PARTY! (the same blog title that everyone else is using)

Wow, perfect timing. The last period of the day. The last day of the week. This is exactly what we needed a party with lots of junk food and drinks to end the long week we had at school, right before the long weekend. We didn't have to do anything to do with programming or HTML coding today, other than writing this post at school. Yep, right now I've decided to use my "party" time to finish this so I'll have less homework to do at home! YAY!

Turing and Flowcharts

 Well, I started the day off with ICS, and today, it wasn't so bad! Arkin demonstrated to show us how to properly use flowcharts, and if they are followed correctly, they can be quite effective. We noted down a sketch of a flowchart for website developing and another one that can be used for the process of programming. After that, we experimented with some simple commands using the Turing language that is standard at V.P. such as arithmetic expressions, etc. Tomorrow, we are having our first ever PARTY!...for finishing the web design unit!

MORE BINARY!

Wow... today was all about decoding binary into 8 bit characters such as letters, numbers and special punctuations. We were assigned to decode the binary code on Mr. Arkin's blog, which was quite annoying...it took us a while to do it, but evetually we decoded the message, although we could've used any converting program posted on the web to make things a lot easier... Overall, this unit is pretty basic and it should be pretty easy.

More Definitions!

Just more and more definitions today! Not much to talk about...we learned a bit about the basics of binary code, although it's pretty elementary for most of us and we talked about operating systems and primary/ secondary memory.

Lots of Work Upcoming.

Wow, today was notes notes and notes! We are now transitioning to hardware, which was the theme we had today. We discussed about different types of memory, primary and secondary. We brainstormed different examples of each and eventually got to memory units. They are usually powers of 2 (e.g. 8 bit, 1024mb, 64 bit operating systems, etc.). Aside from that, I have to really get working on the basic computer glossary... I recently finished the first one, now a second one needs to be finished.. Oh well, that's school.

More learning..

Okay.. today we mainly brainstormed definitions for computer terms, not anymore terms that are directly related to the web. We were introduced Notepad++, which is quite useful, although the same features can be found on better script editing programs such as Adobe ExtendScript (which is what I use). Wow, we were assigned to include small images for EACH of the terms... that's going to be a huge pain... including the fact that I haven't completely finished the glossary. I'd better get to work.