Short Week

Man, my body feels like it has been dragged by a car. My joints are hurting from Field Day, granted I didn't do much to help my team, but then again I rarely do anything physical in the first place. Field Day went from good to bad when my forum started to lose some events. We'll do better next year, granted I'll be a senior and seniors rarely go to Field Day anyway, we'll have a better chance. Now on to CP, this week we didn't do much other than watching TED videos and a spaghetti video. I thought my problem solving skills weren't bad, but my idea to use the spaghetti tower was based on stability not on height. I thought using a triangular pyramid would be enough, but it would seem that I forgot one of the most important rules of walls. You need to have braces to reinforce the walls or else the structure will fall down. The TED videos then made me curious about why every other country uses more advanced Capcha's than 1+1. I feel a little more stupid. Argh, I also didn't finish all of the Jeroo labs either which means I have to do them over the break. All right that's it for this week.

11/18

My god, this week is finally over. I can't wait till Field Day and then Thanksgiving! I need a break. The weekends aren't enough anymore. Okay, onto Computer Programming, we are continuing with Jeroo. I finally finished with lab 3B, pinball island or something, the name escapes me, but there was pinball in there. It was super annoying, because every time I wrote a piece of code, it wouldn't work and I had to scrap it. If this is what Python is, then I'm already a little apprehensive about my ability to work with it. On to the next one, 3C, I am actually making more progress on it than 3B. I already cleared one circle of flowers and one circle of net, although I'm stuck at that part. Sad, isn't it? In any case, I am surprised that some people already past Labs 3 and 4 and on to lab 5. Whatever, I'll be there one day, perhaps after thanksgiving break. Ah, life, you can be so cruel sometimes. Oh yeah, another thing we did was that Jeroo While loops quiz. It was pretty funny, I scored a 50 on the first attempt and then a 90 on the second attempt. But the cool thing was that I forgot about the answers and I actually answered from what I knew. It's really different when you go from memory and by application. One day, I'll be able to do well in those quizzes. Well, I guess that it for this week.

11-11-11

Woohoo, another week is over and better yet I found out that I am staying in AISD. That means I won't leave LASA and my friends. That sure was a load off my chest. Now on to computer programming, this week we're having more fun with Jeroo. This program is slightly annoying because of the syntax. I can not seem to visualize the movement of the Jeroo sometimes and to fix the problem. My brain sort of hurts after going through each lab. Labs 1 were sort of easy, labs 2 slightly more difficult, and labs 3 so far has been more difficult. Methods, and loops sound the same to me, but loops require "whiles" and "ifs." My main problem is with direction and movement, which is basically the point of Jeroo. More and more each day, Jeroo seems to be more like building/doing a game. It's fun when I solve them but even then I need help which sort of takes away some of my pride. But that does not matter because I will surely find out how to do that stupid "pinball island" lab. Curse you Bob for not being able to move like a snake and just go down row by row collecting those flowers. At least I didn't do anything like David, that was weird. I guess that's it for now because it was a 4 day week. Hooray for 3 day weekends!

Finishing Scratch and Beginning Jeroo

Ahhh, we are finally done with Scratch which in retrospect was not that bad. What is better is that I finished with all of the assignments that we were meant to do. Hooray for me, today was sort of cool after all. The easiest one was probably the Guess that secret number, that one was more intuitive rather than that Random Character program. I had so much trouble with that. Maybe it's because we needed to add Random X + Current X and vice versa with Y as well. RockPaperScissors was also a pain, well mainly because my head was spinning and I was dizzy while I was making it and the numbers got scrambled up. Apparently I did not know that I put 1 as rock, 2 as rock and 3 as scissors. I am an idiot sometimes. Fortunately I feel much better afterwards and could finish it today. Oh yeah, the new thing we are working with is Jeroo, apparently named after an animal living near (please forgive my spelling) the "Sangot" islands? I still can't find a picture of it, I got a picture of a woman instead, and art too. Jeroo is about arrows, islands, flowers, nets and water. The jeroo is in the shape of an arrow and you guide it around the island using syntax like Bob= Jeroo(). Your jeroo's name is Bob and the () signify that it is at the location of (0,0), the island also uses a (y,x) coordinate system which messed me up at first but got better later. I also finished the 3 assignments, yay. But it was mainly hops, turns, plant, and toss. Hope it stays like this....That's it for today.