Worst Week of My Life

Ugh, if ever a moment in my life where I felt like I wanted to die is this week. But that is another issue, not about computer programming. Now I will talk about computer programming, let's see it was mainly about working with Scratch in more complicated areas, primarily working with variables. I have no idea how I even got through all of this. All I know is that variables are blocks that we make and can customize it to other blocks. We have mainly used variables with loops but I am sure that we'll get to more complicated topics later. Another thing is that we took a quiz over Scratch, and I did not do as well as I wanted to. I missed 3 out of 10, so that means I got a 70. 2 of the questions I would have gotten right if I had just noticed that "say" was at the very end, so the output would have only said the last number said. Darn it. Darn it. Argh, I hate you so much right now scratch. I am stuck on the character not moving outside of a 100x100x100x100 box. The only thing that I think can happen is that the sprite is going to hate to move back and forth repeatedly. The only problem is that that is probably not going to go well since I can't even do that. Curse you my ineptitude. I guess that is as much as I got to this week and that is it.

Scratch

This week, we used "Scratch" which was very fun. I actually knew how to use it, because it was not that hard to learn but it was probably to understand the functions of each command. In all truth, I missed out on how to make a keyboard because I was not here on Friday, I was at the Austin Film Festival. It was fun, sort of because I received some bad news while I was there but I cheered up, a little. But on Thursday, I was able to make my sprites "sing" and by sing I mean utter noises and sounds in a rhythmic fashion. Technically I just combined two  or three different tunes and then just said that was a song. Well, it was a song, it had music...and a wolf howling. Whatever. I also made a scene with broadcast. It was sort of making of play and that you write the dialogue. Basically you use the "looks" section and then choose "say _________ for __ seconds" and then your sprite will say something for said amount of minutes. Somehow it ended up being a story about a loan shark and a victim who did not have the money. The loan shark was going to break the kneecaps of the victim, but the story sort of ended there which may be good. In any case, I had fun with Scratch and that's it for this week.

Website Completed!

All right, I managed to finish my first website. It looks mediocre, but I put a lot of time and effort in this undertaking, especially when you consider that the computer hates me. There were so many problems with the lightbox, a javascript tool, that was so annoying. I swear it worked at first and then something happened that completely screwed up the lightbox. But after I made separate folders and then copied exactly from the website, it became so much easier. HTML is not so bad after I learned about the basics, and CSS isn't either but I still think that I will have trouble in the future. On another note, we had a quiz this week in HTML and CSS. I think I got at least a solid 80 or so. I forgot that the smallest heading would be <h7> since it is larger than <h6>, but I didn't know that could happen because we were only shown <h6> so I assumed that was only as large that it could be. Some of the questions were about things I had not known about. I didn't know that you could change the bullet into a square or any other shape for the matter. I feel stupid now. Argh, I'm just glad the week is over and all I need to do now is finish the rest of my homework. That's it for today.

HTML and CSS

We have started to work on our websites. HTML was sort of easy and fun to do, probably it was just content and not style. But there were some tricks to make my webpage "presentable," I had a background and colored text. Well, almost all of my text was readable. The only text that wasn't readable was the table, but that was due to the background. Dark on dark does not make text readable, not unless you can tell the distinct lines. But I digress. We sort of started on CSS, but Mr. Stephens was not there when we started so I had trouble. I spent 30 min trying to make my new background using CSS. I finally made my colored background when I got rid of my HTML background. Then CSS worked for me, it felt great, but I still believe that technology hates me at times. And when I say "at times" I actually mean all of the time. That's just bad luck, but that's okay because I am around people that are willing to help me...sometimes. Let's see, CSS made my webpage look more readable although it was only a brown color rather than a movie theater background. It does make it easier to see the stuff I put into the file, and CSS doesn't require as much letters and symbols. All I need to do connect my other 2 webpages to my base html file and then I will be done. I'm just glad I have a three day weekend now! That's it for today, and now I nervously wait for next week.