Post 29

Today, I got pretty far into Chapter 5, for my standards. Its still confusing though.

Post 28

Yay! We didn't have to do anything today! All we did was listen to a lecture, which is fine by me. I'm still lost, but at least I can get people to help me. Like I know if something is a parameter, but I don't know what a parameter IS. Yeah, lame, I know. But anyway, things are in an uneasy balance.

Post 27

Well, today was marginally better. Mr. Whittaker had to explain just about everything to me. Haha, that reminds me of when it took me half the year to learn the FOIL method in Algebra I. Oh well, I know it now. Anyways, the GASP stuff is fun, but I'm not sure of how to do a lot of stuff on my own. When I find out how to do it, it seems really obvious, but before that, I don't have the slightest idea how to figure stuff out. :(

Post 26

Argh....I didn't really do too well today either. I feel like I'm going to fall asleep in my chair. That's not good. And the GASP thing is confusing. I don't really understand what I'm doing...

Post 25

Today I kinda failed my quiz, which really sucks. But I thought that the % means is there are remainder other than 0. Oh well. And the truth_table thing has me stuck, but I'm almost done.

Post 24

Just realized my post titles are really boring, but at least I don't have to waste time thinking about them. I finished my Gasp drawing today, but its not all that artistic. Its just the mickey mouse sign in red, and a line underneath it. Kinda random, but at least its something.

Post 23

We worked more on our number identifier more today. I am still a bit uncertain about this stuff in general, but it gets better as it goes.

Post 22

Finally! Something I understand! I found the program where we had to identify numbers pretty fun. And i understood it. So that's a blessing. Thank goodness for little mercies.

Post 21

Today I learned about cat_n_times and other functions stuff. Its still confusing, but that's the norm with me these days. Anyway, at least I learned something today.

Post 20

I've now started the Third Chapter of "How To Think Like A Computer Scientist". I don't have the foggiest idea what it's all about, but then again I'm like the newb of the class. So don't make fun of my lack of skills.

Post 19

The Madlib assignment is very fun, and I've learned more about how to write programs using strings. Like GvR, you just need to be careful. I still think it is tedious, but at least I am understanding it now.

Post 18

The things about Python GUI are still confusing, but its getting better slowly. I still don't quite understand all the differences between some things, but it's coming together. And still, I don't like Python.

Post 17

I really don't like this Python GUI stuff, because I don't understand it as much as the GvR things we did. I don't really know why this is harder, but it is for some reason.

Post 16

Making my image is really irritating, but I finally have my idea, so that should be good. From here on, it has been sort of uncertain as to what we will do in the next few days. When we were doing GvR, we knew what the next step was.

Crowded Maze

define turnright:
do 3:
turnleft
define turnaround:
do 2:
turnleft
define backup:
turnaround
move
turnaround
define solve:
if next_to_a_beeper:
pickbeeper
if front_is_clear:
move
solve
backup
if left_is_clear:
turnleft
move
solve
backup
turnright
if right_is_clear:
turnright
move
solve
backup
turnleft
solve
turnoff

Post 15

Today I learned more about Python. We finally completed GvR, and all its bothers with it. It was fun, but it also gave me a mega-headache. Crowded maze will follow in a blog right after this. That is another thing that irritates me.

Post 14

Today, the crowed maze really had me fooled. Mr. Whittaker, in all his glorious generosity, imparted to the class how to solve it. I dont really understand what's going on though.