As we finished programming on Monday, we have moved onto our next unit. This unit is about communication and employability skills for IT. This unit is with a tutor called Zoe who we have never had before. She is a good teacher and I think this unit is going to go fine and I can't wait for upcoming units with her.
We started off the day with a teamwork activity. The leader in the group had to go get some Lego and create a simple model and we had to create that same one but with only the leader telling us how to make it. We could not see what he had designed until we had made it. This was a fun activity and it helped to improve our teamwork skills.
After that we moved onto learning about attributes and attitudes. There are three different types of attributes and attitudes. There are specific attributes, general attributes and attitudes. This was quite interesting learning all the different attributes and attitudes because I had never heard of some of them before.
We also had two games of Chinese whispers. This was to show that whispering is not a good way to communicate with other people as the message gets changed. We did it two times with the whole of the class and the message was changed both times. This shows that it is a bad way to communicate with other people.
Monday, 17 November 2014
Friday, 14 November 2014
A day of re submissions!
We started off with a little game called Einsteins riddle. This is a game that is a riddle and you have to work it out. It was quite confusing and I managed to get 15/25 before John put up the answer on the board. This was a fun starter and it helps your brain get going.
After that we started to work on our assignment work. I started working on assignment and I managed to finish that after break. I only had two slides left on task one so that did not take long however task two did take a while because I had a few changes to make.
Then I moved onto assignment three what I had quite a bit to do. I had to change one flow chart, a little bit of my specification and comment my code and fix a little bit of it. I started off finishing my flow chart then I worked on the specification. I realized what I did with the code and I easily fixed that. Commenting the code did take a little while however I finished it about 10 minutes ago.
Overall the software design unit has been very fun and I have improved my programming skills a lot. I will carry on practicing my programming skills and I will try to make some more programs.
After that we started to work on our assignment work. I started working on assignment and I managed to finish that after break. I only had two slides left on task one so that did not take long however task two did take a while because I had a few changes to make.
Then I moved onto assignment three what I had quite a bit to do. I had to change one flow chart, a little bit of my specification and comment my code and fix a little bit of it. I started off finishing my flow chart then I worked on the specification. I realized what I did with the code and I easily fixed that. Commenting the code did take a little while however I finished it about 10 minutes ago.
Overall the software design unit has been very fun and I have improved my programming skills a lot. I will carry on practicing my programming skills and I will try to make some more programs.
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Assignment work!
We started the day off with the daily quiz. This weeks quiz was about programming with Notch (the creator of Minecraft). The video was quite interesting seeing how they designed Minecraft and how they work in debug mode. The questions what had been made were very colour based and not many of the questions were on the programming side.
The main aim of today was to hand in the rest of assignment three. I finished most of it yesterday so when I came in I just finished off a few things then I handed the work in and moved onto the other work I had to finish.
Then I worked on assignment one. I had nearly finished this as well so it didn't take long to do. I only had a few changes left on task three then I was finished with assignment two. After that I worked on assignment two what I have finished the first assignment and I have started the second assignment. I am aiming to finish off the last work tomorrow and have it all sent back by tomorrow.
John showed us a recent news story about the comet that a group of 5 people have been working on for 10 years. I was following the comet landing news yesterday and it was quite interesting. Space is a very interesting place and the technology they are designing to explore it is very cleaver. The main reason why John showed us this was because the code that was used needed to be spot on or it would go wrong.
The main aim of today was to hand in the rest of assignment three. I finished most of it yesterday so when I came in I just finished off a few things then I handed the work in and moved onto the other work I had to finish.
Then I worked on assignment one. I had nearly finished this as well so it didn't take long to do. I only had a few changes left on task three then I was finished with assignment two. After that I worked on assignment two what I have finished the first assignment and I have started the second assignment. I am aiming to finish off the last work tomorrow and have it all sent back by tomorrow.
John showed us a recent news story about the comet that a group of 5 people have been working on for 10 years. I was following the comet landing news yesterday and it was quite interesting. Space is a very interesting place and the technology they are designing to explore it is very cleaver. The main reason why John showed us this was because the code that was used needed to be spot on or it would go wrong.
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Assignment three deadline!
Once again today we started off with Countdown! This time we had words and numbers and still I failed. This time I managed to get 1 off in one of the calculations and I got a three letter word in the word round. This was fun to do and it does help wake your brain up in the morning.
After that little starter, we carried on working on assignment three. The deadline is today and I have managed to get it done (the program can be handed in Thursday so I will do that then). I started off finishing off my program what created some errors. The main error I was working on was the paint cost what I managed to fix. It was due to using the wrong variable name when doing some calculations.
When I finished my program I commented my pseudocode code and changed parts of it. One example of this would be using a loop for the different wall lengths. I commented on the main parts of the code and went into detail about the different types of data types. After that I started to test my program (I'm still working on it and I will finish it tomorrow). So far I have found one error with the pricing with a window so I will fix that tomorrow.
I should be able to finish the rest of the work tomorrow and hand in task two tomorrow morning. I haven't got much left to do so hopefully it wont take too long to finish.
After that little starter, we carried on working on assignment three. The deadline is today and I have managed to get it done (the program can be handed in Thursday so I will do that then). I started off finishing off my program what created some errors. The main error I was working on was the paint cost what I managed to fix. It was due to using the wrong variable name when doing some calculations.
When I finished my program I commented my pseudocode code and changed parts of it. One example of this would be using a loop for the different wall lengths. I commented on the main parts of the code and went into detail about the different types of data types. After that I started to test my program (I'm still working on it and I will finish it tomorrow). So far I have found one error with the pricing with a window so I will fix that tomorrow.
I should be able to finish the rest of the work tomorrow and hand in task two tomorrow morning. I haven't got much left to do so hopefully it wont take too long to finish.
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