Substring Work Period

Today Mr. Arkin was not here, and we were given time to work on the Substring assignments and explore Turing. Hope you're doing well out of school Mr. Arkin!

Another Working Period!

Mr. Arkin gave us a chance to "show off" programs that we created, and Mr. Arkin showed us a game he made on his spare time, and it was quite cool, actually. It's a two-player game, where one player enters a word, and provides a hint to help the other player guess. There is only a limited number of guesses the second player can take, and every missed guess instructs the program to reveal a hidden letter, one at a time. After all the "lives" are used, it's game over, and player 1 wins. The rest of the class was working time for us to master programming and at the same time, study for the upcoming test, date TBA.

Work Period

Today was a work period.

The Way of the Array

Starting from the beginning of class we jumped right into a "new" concept, arrays. The array is used for collecting large amounts of similar data from the user, and without making a variable for each piece of data, we can make the variable into an array type where each subtype signifies a different set of data. We were asked to modify Repetition Assignment #12 to process using arrays, and we were provided work time to do so. It took the rest of the class to do, but I finalized the modification by the end of class, and to be quite honest, my program is looking very nice.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. ARKIN! HOPE THIS IS YOUR BEST ONE YET!

DISAPPOINTMENT...

I am extremely upset with the results that turned out with the Printer Comparison assignment...today we spent the time reviewing the assignment, and I realised that I just had a few grammar mistakes and misuse of symbols...that's all for today..

Work Period

After a weekend of everyone working on the Printer Assignment, we recieved a work period for the repetition assignments.

Missed a Class...

Unfortunately, today I wasn't present at ICS due to a Sonata competition that I did fairly well in, ending up 2nd. BUT, I heard there was a new assignment on the board, an assignment comparing various printers. Well, at least it seems quite interesting, after more than a month of raw programming and tests/quizzes, and it'll be a chance to improve my mark, after horrible programming test I had the other week. We only get the weekend to finish it, so I'd better get working...

Repetition Code Analysis

In today's class, we had to exchange repetition assignment #6 with a partner, and to perform a desk check and analysis on the partner's assignment. As always, we were allowed quite a bit of time to work on our assignments and ask questions. That's all for today. See you tomorrow!

Survey

Today we were to complete a survey intended to improve the classroom environment, by getting our opinions as to what should change (start, stop, continue). We were given a few minutes to complete that and we got right to work afterwards. We had a homework check and we were to give in our best assignment so far, and Mr. Arkin gave them back, including suggestions to improve. We had time to work on our assignments as well.

Work Period (again)!

Monday is here again, and today, we were provided time to work on and finish out repetition assignments. Mr. Arkin also gave us a model answer for number 2 on the repetition assignment list, and it was quite a program! It was quite in depth, and I never actually thought of that concept. Today, I used the time we were provided quite effectively and I finished a few assignments in that time.

Repetition!

 Today we were finally introduced the new concept of repetition! There are three new key words, or phrases: loop, end loop and exit when. Loop and end loop act as delimiters to the loop body and exit when exits the loop when a specified condition is fulfilled. We were assigned a bit of homework, including the first few repetition assignments. See you on Monday!

Lest we forget...

Today is Remembrance day of 2011. We attended an assembly about this day and it was very, very somber. We also had our tests handed back, and had a review. I knew I could've done better, but I never knew I did this poorly. I'll have to make up the marks with the coming tests, and I'll study harder than I've ever before.

First Programming Test

Our first ever full programming test took place today, and I know for a fact that I messed up somewhere on the test. I misread one of the questions, so I completely didn't know we had to provide examples for one of the questions... Wow, what should have been a simple test turned into an unnecessarily complicated one. Well, hopefully I did decently well. See you in tomorrow's post!

Test Tomorrow

Hardcore review is one word to describe today's class. The room was flowing with questions and answers for the whole period and we recieved quite a bit of info on the test tomorrow from Mr. Arkin. He also answered our questions about various topics regarding the Turing language we've been studying and applying. Well, hopefully tomorrow we will do well on the unit test! I'll see you in tomorrow's post. Seeya!

Analysis Presentations

Today, ICS was the last period of the day for us, and we spent the class sharing and presenting our posters for the Selection #6 analysis. All of the groups presented today, each group adding on facts to the previous group(s), and it was quite a class today. After that, we looked at the other class' posters, and wrote down additional facts and points that we missed. We also had a mini-party celebrating Mujtaba's citizenship on friday, with chips, pop, and improvised cups (juice boxes with the top cut off!) :) See you in tomorrow's post!

Continuing Code Analysis

We continued analyzing the code section by section today, continuing on from where we left off yesterday. At at the end, we weren't quite done, but we got most of the primary components written down. We also had a quiz today, when we had to write a simple program to calculate the mean of two integers. The weekend is here once again!

Mastering of the Desk Check skill

Yes, today was quite a busy day in our ICS class right after lunch. We got right into groups of four and starting desk checking a unit conversion choice program Mr. Arkin provided us. Today for homework, we will have to desk check 3 whole programs from our selection assignments, which I'm going to power work on right after I publish this post. After the desk checking, we had to list all the concepts and key words in the program on a chart paper, from each section of the program. Seeya tomorrow!

TYKTWD

Today is Take Your Kids to Work Day! Hopefully I'll accomplish and learn lots and last night I definitely got the amount of sleep Mr. Arkin recommends to us. I'll try to put in an hour more of sleep every day now, since 8 hours isn't enough, for kids our age. Well, a break off from school in the middle of the week is just what we need! We'll be sure to have a fresh start tomorrow at school.

Case Statements, another way to "select"

Today, we had a brief lesson on case statements, which are basically a more organized way to give values to specific variables, especially a large number of them. It's more efficient to use case statements rather than if statements in these cases, since you don't require to write a seperate line for each "elsif". I finally brought blogger back to life at home, and I am posting this from my home pc. Tomorrow's Take you kids to work day, and that's all for today, so long!

Catchup period

Today was a catch up day for our selection assignments, and again, blogger is not functioning on my PC at home. Well, I've finished everything on friday, so today was a period for me to work on cleaning up my html.