The BIG Project

Today was a period to decide what the groups were doing for their BIG Culminating activities, but most people couldn't decide until the very end of class!  The funny thing that I forgot to mention was Mr. Arkin's internet, phone, and T.V. all crashed at some point during the holidays.  WAIT!  I mean I am sorry to Mr. Arkin, and I hope the problem gets solved soon!:P  That is all for today, bye!

Review of Missed Posts # 2

Monday, January 3rd 2011:  Today was the first day of the new year and we had all our Culminating activities assigned to us today, which was kind of heavy in my backpack, but I guess that is the price for having awesome holidays!  We have a Mosaic Project and it sounds pretty decent for a Culminating activity, but her is the catch, it is due on the coming Wednesday as in January 5th!  I think I will need to stay up quite late to finish this assignment if I want to do well on it!  That is all for now!

Tuesday, January 4th 2011: Today Mr. Arkin gave us the second assignment, which is a choice of given topics!  Today we worked all period on the Mosaic assignment!  That was all we did, but that is a day in the busy final month of the semester!

Wednesday, January 5th 2011:  Today was another work period for the Mosaic project, but it is the last as the project is due tomorrow!  The day today was kind of rough day because I had so much work; I had so much it was not even laughable!  Well I have to get back to my work, bye!

Review of Missed Days

December, 16 2010:   Today we were finishing the bouncing ball assignment and starting the edge project!  Also, tomorrow is the last day of school, and I am really excited but also kind of sad because I am really starting to enjoy computer class.  I have most of the edge project done but I am just trying to fix one little part, but I think it might take me longer than I hoped!

December, 17 2010:  Today we had our last day of classes but we still worked, and I was sad to say bye to everybody at school!  Well anyways, I wish everyone a happy holiday!  Bye for now!

Bouncing Off The Walls

Today in class Mr. Arkin got us to try and create a new type of program which has to do a little with graphics, and it included a program that repeats a character to bounce off the walls of the run window.  This was a pretty cool thing to learn because with this it will open a whole new type of programming which will make computer class even better than it already is.  For homework all we have to do is to make a program that makes a character go around the borders of the run window.  That is all for now, until next time!

He Shoots He Scores

All the classes got their test back today and I think everyone was either more relieved than they should have been, or had a severe heart attack.  Myself, I got a pretty decent mark, considering I panicked halfway through the test, and I am just congratulating myself on a decent job well done!  Today we went slightly on the topic of drawing some shapes on Turing, but that was it-except for the class taking up the test.  For homework we have to try and make a program that gathers a character from the user and we have to make it bounce across the screen.  That is all for today and I hope that the rest of my tests this week go as hoped.  Bye!

The Pressure Is On

Hey everyone!  It is me and I am just here to say that today we had our surprise unit 2 test for programming, and I am really freaking out here!  I think I did okay overall but there is always the doubt that I messed something up, and I hope that it was not that big of a problem.  I know that I should not freak out that much but it always comes to mind; like if my mind kept saying "Did I do that part right or did I include all of that!"  It was a hectic day but again I think-and pray-that I did well on my test, because this is a big portion of my semester mark.
That is all for now, bye!

Test Your Testing Abilities

Today was the last day in our peer teaching project, and let me tell you it was really helpful.  I am still a little unclear about certain things in the programming unit but hopefully I will be good enough to get at least an 80% on my upcoming test- which is still on an unclear date.  I hope that I will do well because I really want my mark to be the best it could be.  Even though I did not know much before this year about computers I am really glad that I took this course and I know it will benefit me in the future.  Our homework this weekend is to study and review for our test.  And that is all for today, bye!