Saturday, April 28, 2012

This week in computer programming, we worked some more with python and we learned about dictionaries in python. Dictionaries allow us to call back files from external sources and use them. They are like matrixes but once they are created, they cannot be modified. IN processing i was able to follow the tutorials instructions and make both star and a plant in the program. I learned how to make it so that I could rotate automatically or i could control it with my mouse. The latter proved to be quite difficult to control as when you set up both the x and y axis fro mouse control, it gets to be a bit crazy.

Kapil out.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Lab 09a

This week's Lab was possibly one of the hardest labs in python history. Dealing with matrixes really opened up the world of programmin and pushed our little group's mind to the limits. TODO 1 was actually the most difficult, stomping our minds for the better part of two class periods. Once we had completed TODO 1, the rest of the lab just flew by with Blake and myself actually earning Matthew's praise and doing most of TODO 3 and figuring out TODO 4 by ourselves. We also worked on Processing a little bit, and found it quite interesting. It seemed like a watered down version of Java, but much more graphically integrated. We realized with this just how much python's graphics really sucks. I would love to see us do more of this kind of stuff.

Kapil Out.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Week 7 of 5th 6 weeks

This week in computer programming we learned about matrixes. matrixes basically store data from other programs and make them usable to all other python programs you create. It is an interesting concept and one that is widely used to make more complicated programs. We were assigned lab 09 this week, but since we had only ten minutes left in the first day of class, we just decide to have a reversi tournament where i pwned Blake and Matthew Williamson. The second day we started to work on the lab and we finished TODO 1. In the time it took us to finish that, Sam finished the entire lab. That kid is a genius. Mr. Stephens also played a joke on us saying that Lien was the first one done with the lab and Matthew took it way too seriously due to his love/hate realtionship with Lien.

Kapil Out.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Almost doing nothing marathon

This week in computer programming we had two workdays to work on whatever we needed. I had finished everything already so i got two free periods. These do not happen often at all and i really enjoyed mine. For most of Tuesday i was on reddit, and for most of Thursday i was on sporcle, quizzing it up with Matthew, Blake, Zach, Severin, and occasionally Mr. Stephens. Matthew Williamson was also there, but he should have been doing lab 6 or whatever he is on. On sporcle we did some pokemon quizzes and were suprised as to how much we actually forgot from the first generation.

Kapil out.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Computer Programming

This week in computer programming we continued to work on lab 08. May i say that thing is way to long. It took us all three class periods. We barely finished on Thursday. We got stuck a little bit on the first part where you made us reverse all the individual lists and make an individual list with them and reverse the order. The second workday I had to leave a bit early and Matthew and Blake finished the averageList function without me. I came back on Thursday and got Blake to explain it to me and i finished up the code.
The last part of the code was the simplest. However, this lab was way to long and in the future i would prefer it if the labs were more the length of all the 7s.

Kapil Out.