Febuary 23 Status Report

We started of the week with a test on everything we had done so far.  We were assigned
to develop a flowchart for a program that inputed three numbers and outputted them in
ascending order.  We learned about the differences of structured and object oriented
programming, then we worked on some challenging brain teasers.  On Wednesday we
developed our first VB program, which was a calculator that calculated tax and the total cost
of something.  Towards end the week of we walked through program codes, that we should
become familiar with and use them when working with the visual basics program.

The biggest challenge I faced was working with my Visual Basics program.  I hadn't
ever done any programming before so I was slightly confused when we first started working
with the program.  To help me complete the program I followed the steps very carefully.  I
had my peers around me to help me if I had any problems, but I mostly knew how to do the
program myself, once I got the hang of it. 

Febuary 16th Status Report

During this week we learned many new things. We were introduced to simple computer terms, as well as simple and extended models of a computer as well as their memories. We learned about memory size prefixes, i.e. gigabytes, bytes and we had an activity with these terms. We learned about pseudo codes and different types of software. We also did all the flowchart questions together as a class. Lastly we learned about cryptography, and creating simple codes using substitution and then solving these codes. The cryptography lesson was my favorite because I had always been interested in this because of the instances where I saw it in famous movies.

The only work I have left to do this week is to finish the cryptography assignment. The only challenges I faced this week were with the flowcharts. While doing the flowchart problems together as a class I started to figure out where I was making my mistakes. I still have some aspects to improve with my understanding of flowcharts, so I will be studying hard this weekend to prepare for the test that is coming up on Monday.

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Febuary 9th Status Report

During the first week of Computer and Information Science I learned many new interesting things. Our objectives this week varied from making flow charts, problem solving, working on our new blog and finishing an ethical essay on illegal downloading. I had heard of blogs before, but I never really attempted to create one before this class. Once I got started I had a lot of fun creating my blog.

The area where I probably had the most difficulty was with the flowcharts, I was grasping the concept fairly easily when the problems were simple, but on Thursday I had a basketball game so I had to leave tech class early. When I got home I looked over the homework and I was slightly confused. When I returned to school on Friday I asked my peers for some help on the flowcharts and they helped me quite a lot.

The beginner flowcharts were similar to the image below.


I successfully completed and gained quite a bit of knowledge from my blog, flowchart, problem solving techniques and as well as completing the ethics essay. I learned valuable information about problem solving with very simple processes and I am looking forward to trying to use the problem solving techniques later with more developed problems and activities. Regarding my blog, I am very proud of the work I've done so far, but there can always be improvements, so in the near future I will be trying to improve my blog to make it the best as possible. In conclusion I learned many new interesting things and I am eager to see what the weeks coming up with hold.

SuperBowl 41!

Superbowl 41 was a great one, MVP Peyton Manning led the Indianapolis Colts to a decisive 29-17 win over the Chicago Bears. The game included many turnovers and exciting events such as a kickoff return for a touchdown by Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears. With the football season over, I'm eager to watch the 2007 Probowl which is sure to be a great game with a compilation of the top players of the league.
Here is a video of the kickoff return for a touchdown done by Devin Hester.

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