Clean up day

Today, our job was to clean up our entire website to make sure they're all validated, and update our glossaries. We had a supply teacher today. Someone in our class finally brought in some music so we were able to enjoy Studio 218 while working :)
Our homework was to complete the selection assignments.

Truth is hard to find~~

Today, we took up selection assignments 1-5, and learned about truth tables, binary/unary operators, elsif for more than one truth part and if ladders. We had a few minutes at the end of class to work on our assignments. For homework, we were supposed to do selection assignments 5-7, but since I already finished, I checked them over, printed, and did some other assignments as well.

SELECTION

TODAY~ (as you can probably tell by my heading) we learned about selection! It was just an introduction it, but we already started on our assignments. Since it was a short period, we didn't have much time to do anything else.

*robotic voice* Think like a computer... Think like a computer..

HAI! We discussed about tracing the execution of a program, and to think like a computer. We also talked about the unary, binary and boolean operators. For homework, I previewed the Selection section of programming, took notes for it, and did two programs which relates to the binary and boolean operations. It was a pretty fun day.
At lunch, there was a food sale for animal relief club, and people bought all the sushi and springrolls that I made! HEHEHE

Simple is best

Today, we took up input assignments 1-4, and discussed about ways to make the programs easier for users to use. We learned to ALWAYS specify a field width for numbers, and that the user can also specify the field width. For homework, I continued to work on the input assignments and printed out the assignment page.

Superpower autobiography

We got back our marks for the superpower autobiography. We basically spent the whole period looking at our marks, and comparing them with other people's :) Mr. Arkin also took up some of the comments that were put for each person's comment section, so see where we lost marks.

Success~

The only thing we did today was work on the input assignments. For homework, I completed the assignments 1-5, but had some difficulties with #4. I asked some classmates about it and was successful at getting it done. YAY! I also printed out the HTML/CSS source codes, the glossarys, and programming assignments.

OMGGGEEE THERE'S A BEEE!!

In class, we learned about variables, because constants are so boring. We learned how to input information, and output them as well. After that, we spent the rest of the period working on the homework assignments on touque.ca. For homework, I completed the input assignment 1-3. I looked over 4 and 5 but it was a little confusing so I didn't do them. An interesting thing happened in class today though; A BEE FLEW IN!!! It was buzzing everywhere and got everyone paranoid, including me. The good thing was that I wasn't wearing any yellow, and the bee (or wasp, I'm not sure) was only flying around 2 guys who just happened to be wearing yellow :)

finally friday

Today, we took some more definitions and talked solved the case of the DISAPPEARING ASTERISK! It was actually easier than I thought. For the rest of the class, we took notes on new things we're learning, and discussed about them. For homework, I read and took notes for programming, and explored Turing.

trip

I was @ Niagara falls today for my geography field trip, so I missed a whole class of computer science. From reading the daily log, I knew that our class did an activity with the disappearing *, and the mission was to solve how to make it appear on all 4 corners of the page. For homework, I reviewed and took notes for "variables" and "input" sections in the programming section on Touque.ca.

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We spent the whole class learning about programming. And as an introduction, we did some basic programming on Turing. For example, we learned about character strings, objects, exacutables, integers, and others. It was actually very interesting to learrn about everything, though I find that it takes a while to get it. But I guess it's just because it's all new to us, so it'll get better later on. For homework I took notes from the programming subsite on touque.ca, and completed the output assignments.

beginning of Programing

Today, we started to learn about processing. We drew flowcharts on how processing is made, and what steps are required to take. We went on the computer and started the IDE program "Turing", which is a programing language and program that's named after the British Mathmetician, Alan Turing. It's a program especially made for students when they're learning how to program. We were taught what "key words", "arithmetic expression", and "character string" were in Turing, and played around with the program for a bit with our teacher. For homework, I reviewed the programing sub.

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(the title says "binary code")
Today, our class learned how to change binary codes into decimal numbers and how to pronounce it as an ASCII term. For example, 0100 0001 is represented as 65, and it's pronounced as "ASCII-65". We had to remember that "A" is 65, which is represented as 0100 0001, "a" is 97 which is represented as 0110 0001, and "blank space" is 32 which is 0010 0000. From learning these things, We covered 53 of the ASCII codes. In class we also filled out a worksheet on all the ASCII codes and had to get the code for decimal numbers. For homework I decoded the blog Mr. Arkin wrote, and completed my worksheet. I think ASCII codes are AWESOME, but it's very difficult to keep track of where you are while decoding a message.

Math in Computer Science?!

We finally finished our words definitions today, and learned about the binary codes. The new and interesting thing I learned today is how to count, and not just the regular way (base 10), we learned base 2!! It may not sound like much, but it's actually very cool. Did you know, if you do addition with base 2, 1+1=10? And the only 2 numbers that can be used in it are 0 and 1. For homework, I updated/validated and put the basic computer glossary on the web. I've had some troubles validating the class glossary though because one of the errors said that I needed to add a <dl> when I already had one. I also found pictures for the newly defined words we got in class, but I still couldn't find the right pictures for megabyte, gigabyte, kilobyte, bit and byte.

We tried our best to wrap things up with the Basic Computer Glossary today, unfortunately we still had a few words left. There's always next time! We got the definitions and copied them down in our notes so we can update the web page online. We also learned about the values and differences between bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. For homework, I've updated my glossary and validated it. I've also gotten images for the terms, however, I couldn't find any images of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, etc. I'll try again on another website and hopefully I'll be able to get those pictures.

Today we continued to work on the Basic Computer Glossary. We're put in 4 more definitions and discussed about them. That took up pretty much the whole period but we had 15 min left over in the end. We used that time to work on the glossary. At home, I put in the definitions for the BCG and finished the personal glossary. I also want to review the definitions for my own benefit.