Today we started the new unit what is programming. I have been looking forward for this unit because I enjoy programming and I've always wanted to improve my skills. I started learning Python in school however I did not progress that much with it. We have also changed our tutor for this unit. We now have John who is a funny person and a good teacher.
We started off looking at a site what is a nice entry level for coding. It was a maze game where you had to program the angry bird to get to the pig. The layout of the programming was like Scratch because you drag in the code. It makes it quite simple and easy however if you look at the code it is more confusing.
The programming language we will be using is Small Basic. I have heard of Small Basic however I have never used it. When I first saw Small Basic, it looked quite basic (hence the name). I like Small Basic because it offers lots of help when writing your code. It automatically predicts what you might be typing so you can quickly write the code.
We had a go at Small Basic with a number of tutorials. One tutorial was counting up from 0 to 100. It was quite interesting because I never knew you could right 0-100 in a few lines of code. We also had to organize a program code to make it more readable. One of the things I changed was putting spaces in it so I could split up all the code into blocks. This does not effect the code what is helpful so it can look nice while running fine.
Overall I have enjoyed the first day of programming and I can't wait to learn more different things you can do in Small Basic. Programming can be very helpful and you can do so much in a few lines of code. The bigger programs most likely use more lines of code because there is lots of different parts to certain programs such as word.
Monday, 13 October 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
3 days left of graphics!
Today we started off looking at two of the entries of the blog stars. The two blog stars were Tom and myself. We wrote the good and bad points of both blog entries what was quite helpful because I noticed one little spelling mistake what I had done. This has helped me develop my English more and hopefully keep on improving.
Next off we had a discussion about feedback. We talked about what feedback was and the ways you can collect it. This was interesting because I never knew how many different ways there is to collect data. The way we will be collecting data is using Survey Monkey. This is all about our game assets and how we could improve them.
After that we started to design our Survey Monkey surveys. We had to create 10 questions (was changed to 8 afterwards) to ask each other about our game assets. I decided to pick my main character and the power up character because I think I need to improve my power up character because it does not look much different compared to the normal character.
Finally we moved onto making a pitch. Adam did a demonstration on how to do one and how not to do one (what was quite funny). Then we watched another example about the annoying things in PowerPoint what was also funny. Then we had to design our own pitch to present tomorrow. I am not looking forward to doing the pitch because I get quite nervous when talking to the rest of the class at the front of the class.
Overall it has been a enjoyable day however I am quite nervous about the pitch tomorrow. Also we only have 3 days left of graphics! This will go fast.
Next off we had a discussion about feedback. We talked about what feedback was and the ways you can collect it. This was interesting because I never knew how many different ways there is to collect data. The way we will be collecting data is using Survey Monkey. This is all about our game assets and how we could improve them.
After that we started to design our Survey Monkey surveys. We had to create 10 questions (was changed to 8 afterwards) to ask each other about our game assets. I decided to pick my main character and the power up character because I think I need to improve my power up character because it does not look much different compared to the normal character.
Finally we moved onto making a pitch. Adam did a demonstration on how to do one and how not to do one (what was quite funny). Then we watched another example about the annoying things in PowerPoint what was also funny. Then we had to design our own pitch to present tomorrow. I am not looking forward to doing the pitch because I get quite nervous when talking to the rest of the class at the front of the class.
Overall it has been a enjoyable day however I am quite nervous about the pitch tomorrow. Also we only have 3 days left of graphics! This will go fast.
Friday, 3 October 2014
Action packed Friday!
We started the day off looking at some blog entries and to see the good and bad things about what they did. There were three different paragraphs for us to look at and we had to correct the grammar. After that we fed back to the group and said the mistakes for the paragraphs and it just shows how if you don't proof read you will make these silly mistakes.
After that we went onto do a worksheet about homophones. These are words what sound alike however they are spelt differently. For example there, their and they're. They all sound the same however they are all spelt differently. I found this worksheet very helpful because I sometimes get muddled up with the homophones and I'm not always sure which one is correct.
Next off we went to the place called the outside world! We did an activity about what we enjoyed this unit. It showed that a lot of people liked designing their 8 bit games and improving their Photoshop skills. Also we were answering some questions like do you like Comic Sans MS or not and is Wii better than Xbox? Clearly the winners were that most people like Comic Sans MS and the Wii because its true.
Finally we did a task about copyright. This was a research task so we had to find out all about copyright and how it works. This was quite fun to do because I never knew that so much different content could be copyrighted. Also we looked at the common mistakes in A2T1 and then we had about an hour to correct our work. I finished that off at about two then finished off my copyright document.
Overall this has been an enjoyable week with lots of events. My favorite part of the week was designing all the 8 bit graphics because it made me a lot more confident when using Photoshop. Also it showed me that you can do so much with Photoshop quite easily.
After that we went onto do a worksheet about homophones. These are words what sound alike however they are spelt differently. For example there, their and they're. They all sound the same however they are all spelt differently. I found this worksheet very helpful because I sometimes get muddled up with the homophones and I'm not always sure which one is correct.
Next off we went to the place called the outside world! We did an activity about what we enjoyed this unit. It showed that a lot of people liked designing their 8 bit games and improving their Photoshop skills. Also we were answering some questions like do you like Comic Sans MS or not and is Wii better than Xbox? Clearly the winners were that most people like Comic Sans MS and the Wii because its true.
Finally we did a task about copyright. This was a research task so we had to find out all about copyright and how it works. This was quite fun to do because I never knew that so much different content could be copyrighted. Also we looked at the common mistakes in A2T1 and then we had about an hour to correct our work. I finished that off at about two then finished off my copyright document.
Overall this has been an enjoyable week with lots of events. My favorite part of the week was designing all the 8 bit graphics because it made me a lot more confident when using Photoshop. Also it showed me that you can do so much with Photoshop quite easily.
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Deadline day & Quiz Thursday!
We started today off doing a little designing task. Adam put up three words on the board and we had to design a picture about the word. The three words we were told was formatting, design and consistent. This was quite challenging because I'm not too good at designing pictures for words but I did enjoy it.
Today is Thursday so it means one thing. Quiz Thursday! Today's quiz was not too organised however it was fun to do. The quiz was 10 questions long and it was about colours. The looser of every week has to make next weeks quiz so I aimed not to loose! In the end I got 8/10 what I was very happy with and I can't wait till next week.
After that Adam sent another quiz just to test our knowledge about grammar and how to send in our assignment work. We did it two times because not a lot of people did well on the first quiz! After the first attempt at the quiz Adam explained about how we should send the assignment then we had another go and most people improved.
Finally we finished up our assignments because the deadline day was today. I finished mine just in time before break so I was pleased with that. One more assignment and we are finished with this unit. It has gone very fast in the end and I have enjoyed it all so far.
Overall this has been a enjoyable day and I have made a lot of progress and learnt new things.
Today is Thursday so it means one thing. Quiz Thursday! Today's quiz was not too organised however it was fun to do. The quiz was 10 questions long and it was about colours. The looser of every week has to make next weeks quiz so I aimed not to loose! In the end I got 8/10 what I was very happy with and I can't wait till next week.
After that Adam sent another quiz just to test our knowledge about grammar and how to send in our assignment work. We did it two times because not a lot of people did well on the first quiz! After the first attempt at the quiz Adam explained about how we should send the assignment then we had another go and most people improved.
Finally we finished up our assignments because the deadline day was today. I finished mine just in time before break so I was pleased with that. One more assignment and we are finished with this unit. It has gone very fast in the end and I have enjoyed it all so far.
Overall this has been a enjoyable day and I have made a lot of progress and learnt new things.
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