Week of the 5th week in the 5th six weeks

This week in computer programming we were introduced to strings and lists. I think that I understood the lesson on strings pretty well. Matthew, Blake and myself all finished the first and longest of the labs rather quickly. We finished it on the first day while everybody lagged behind. We also finished the other two labs in around 10 minutes on the next day and we then spent the rest of the class making fun of Blake. On Friday we were introduced to lists which are very similar to strings but are not immutable. We got started on the lab but we only finsihed about 1/4 of it.

That is all for this week,
Kapil

Week before Spring break

This week was a really fun one in computer programming. Unfortunately, we only had two days in class. The first day we were allowed to mess around with the Finch some more. We had to use three other programs on JES. Matthew, Blake (Yes, the fat one), and myself all wanted to do the stock reader and of course it is the only one that doesn't work out of all six of them. We then proceeded to goof around the rest of the day. The next day we just watched a bunch of TED talks. More on them in my reading reflection later. The coolest one out of all of them was this cool computer that was built out of a webcam and let you do pretty much anything anywhere. It was quite fascinating and i can't remember for the life of me what it is called.

Thats all until the end of break.
Kapil Out.

The week before the week before the week of spring break.

This past week in computer programming we were given one last day in class to work on project 02. It was interesting experience and quite different from the first project in the aspect that it was much more useful than an Angry Birds prototype. It was a demographic like project that had us making bar graphs. Luckily Mr. Stephens gave s most of the code for the outline of the bar graph. All we had to do was create the bars, write formulas to create the data, and get user input. Of course we also had to write comments as well. The last two days of the week we got to mess around with a robot known as the Finch. The programming was quite simple as it was just Python and it seemed like a much more in depth version of Jeroo. But it was a really nice break form the long labs that we normally do. Hopefully we do more of it in the future and hopefully the Finch's designers will come up with a wireless receiver as well.

Kapil out.

Mr Stephens, this blog was accidentally put up on my Ezine blog form last semester. Sorry about the mixup.