Scored thru 11/25 (20 pts possible) - see Edline for your score tomorrow evening.

No more posts this quarter

By going to the open house i have been allowed to no longer post a reflection for each day for the quarter. See ya next semester.

reflection 11/9/07

today we finished the picture portion of assignment A12 by realligning my pyramid and using the turing function and random color generator in order to create a starburst picture.

reflection 11/8/07

today we practiced use of loops for by creating special outputs with the use of loops. this was part of the A12.2 assignment

reflection 11/07/07

today we practiced the use of loops with exercises from the blue pelican textbook. Tommorow i will finish this assignment.

reflection q 11/6/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

to day we learnt baout the do-while loop. a do-while loop is a form of while loop that checks if the programm should run after the iteration. This guarentees that the loop will execute at least once.

Scored through 10/31. All blogs from this point forward are second marking period.
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reflection q 10/30/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today we learnt about DeMorgan's Laws. These laws provide a set way to create a variety of boolean statements that will yield the same truth values. We also practiced with some AP COSC test questions in order to get an understanding of what will be asked of the class during the AP test.

reflection 10/24/07

today we were given problems to create programms involving the use of selection statements inorder to practice using these statement to make code writing easier, simpler, and less prone to errors. I did not fiish and will have to complete the work tommorrow

reflection 10/23/07

today i worked on a package checking assignment
this assignment required the use of comparing values and thus the use of the if functions

reflection q 10/22

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i finished the printf grocery list assignment. sine that was all the work due it is unknown as to what will need to be done tommorow

Scored through 10/18. Check Edline for scores on Monday evening.

reflection q 10/118/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today we worked on a grocery list with a method of puting symols into inputed data.Tommorrow i will finish the grocery list assignment

reflection q 10/16/07

Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.


import javax.swing.*;// must be used for user input
s=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Input a number: ");

these are the import and comands needed to take in user input througgh a pane that will ask the question, input a variable, and hav ok and Cancel buttons

reflection q 10/15/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i worked on practice exercises related to chapter 8 in an online textbook. Howevwer i did not finish in class and will have to work at home inorder to finish the assignment.

reflection 10/11/07

today we reviewed our info about classes in order to prepare for a quiz we take tommorrow on the subject

10/10/07

i didn't do anything today because i finished all my work 2 days ago

relfection q 10/09/07

i didn't do anything today because i finished all my work yesterday

reflection q 10/08/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i finished the extra practice of classes that will be due on wednesday. what will need to be done tommorrow is virtually nothing as the assignment is not due for a few more days.

Scored through 10/5. Check edline on Monday evening for grade.

reflection q 10/5/07

What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome
them?/How did you overcome them?

today i had a problem getting the compiler to understand an outline for eclipse that was taken from petronline.com. In order to fix this problem i had to create a new project and then import the outline from another area where the outline had been saved

reflection q 10/4/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today we practiced creating classes in order to easily create instances.tommorrow i will use the rectangle creating class in order to draw circles.

reflection q 10/3/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today we worked on question based on information in chapters 2 and 4 in an online text book. these chapters covered topics on basic class writing. Since all work was completed this classtime it is unknown as to what we will be doing tommorrow.

reflection q 10/2/07

How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

to test my program i used the example given by the teacher to input values into the program. Next i checked my results against the results of ms petr to determine if my program was working correctly. By doing this test i found there was something wrong with theresults of my program. However since no error could be found in the equation used to determine the result of my program, the error was considered no longer a problem and i was able to turn in the assignment on time

reflection q 10/1/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today we learnt how to create outside classes in order to perform specific functions easier and with fewer bugs. I also started a project/worksheet given in class. Tommorrow i hope to finish this asssignment by implimenting the lessons learnt today.

reflection q 9/26/07

Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.


double x;
double y = math.sqrt(x);
this code will remind me that in order to perform complicated functions on primitive data types i must use a static class.
a static class is called a static class( has static methods)because you dont need
an object instance to call(use) them just its name.
since primitve dont have an object automatically attached to them the static classes must be used.
in order to to math functioons with int and double (primitive types) i must use math.

reflection q 9/25/07

Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.


system.out.println(“All \“ good\” men should come to the aid of their country”);

this code will remind me that i must use an escape sequence ( the \ plus the character) in order to perform certain functions or system.out certain characters such as the " mark because w/o the sequence the " would be read as the othe " needed to end the string.

Scored on 9/23/07. Check edline for grade posting tomorrow evening.

reflection q 9/21/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i finished the worksheets that will be due on Monday. i also finished the make-up work from friday when i was out. next class is the quest on the things we've learned up until now so i should study in order to get a good grade on the test

reflection q 9/20/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i finished the exercises from the online text book and began work on the worksheets. By tommorrow i hope to be finished the current worksheet i am working on as well as the other worksheet thus completing my work this is because tommorrow the work is due.

reflection q 9/19/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i finished the exercises for lesson 2 of the online textbook. Tommorrow i hope to finish the exercises for lessonons 4 and 5.
today we also learned about the ability to shorten basic arithmetic functions
for example a=a+1 can be a+=1.

reflection q 9/17/07

Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.


System.out.println( " /\\ /\\" );

this is a portion of the symbol animal we worked on in class in order to practice the use of system.out. System.out is the equivalent of cout<< from c++ and by look in at this portion of code, i will remember that.

reflection q 9/11/07

Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.

//building 3-d
marker.up();
marker.move(-100,150);
marker.down();
marker.move(-150,200);
marker.move(-150,50);
marker.move(-100,0);

this bit of code was used to begin adding a 3 dimensional feel to my draw house assignment. It will also remind me that if i want to move without drawing a line i must first pick up the utensil, move it, then put it down.

9/10/07

1. What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome
them?/How did you overcome them?

today i came across an error due to the predisposition of a drawing tool. I learnt that the drawing tool would naturally be facing upwards and to plan accordingly. I also learnt that 90 from facing up is left rather than right so to get to right from up the general turn is 270 degrees.

9/7/07

What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

today i learnt about oop and how to open files to run programs
monday i will continue to work on oop as well as memorize header

9/6/07 reflection q

5. Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.

code:
System.out.print("Hello PBHS");

this code will remind me of our introduction to the eclipse IDE

lesson 8/28/07

today we learnt about basic uses of cpu and more specifically the use multiple transistor to create logical "gates" in the form of boolean logic.