In tech class, we have been creating spreadsheets. We have been monitoring our fitness through the week to test it out. Here is my chart:
To make this chart, I would use google sheets. The first thing I would do is fill in the cells with the amount of fitness I’ve done this week. Then, I would click “Create chart” and then google would create a chart for me! For doing averages, I would type =AVRAGE(), and then I would type in the exact cell location I wanted it to average. I love this feature, and it is much better than adding up 5 numbers in the google calculator and then dividing them. Spreadsheets are helpful in many ways, from counting your party guests to tracking the amount of books you read over the summer. Learning how to use google spreadsheets is easy, so I love using it for whatever random thing I have to keep track of.
I hope you all are well.
Hello Everyone! Today I am going to go over a project we did in tech class on Swift playground. We did a simple answer machine, which took an input and repeated that input back.
Lets see here, our program is asking a question and getting an input, which it then uses to say something about it. For example, when I put in the input “Stela” it would then say “I also like Stela,” The thing about this is if I put in anything, it will say the same thing, “I also like ___”. We did the same thing a couple times in a row, just using different questions. And that’s it!
I hope you all are well.
(Btw shoutout to SkyBox Labs and Giant Squid for making those great games)
Hello everyone! Today I will be going over a problem I did in the “Swift Playground Learn to code 1” .
We have the “for” statement, which happens three times, and we repeat the move forwards, collect the gem, move forward twice and then turn right. At the end, instead of doing it again, I just moved forward and collected the gem. The “for” loop tells our character to repeat the stuff in the loop three times, and this is easier than doing lots of functions then repeated them once we get into bigger stuff.
And there you have it, the solution to one of the problems. It was fairly easy, and there was nothing really challenging about it.
I hope you all are well.
Hello Everyone! For Computer Tech class, I am using a program called Swift Playground, which is another “learn to code easy” app. Today I am briefly walking you through a problem I was solving on the app!
(Goal of the project, collect gems on the top of the stairs and use functions)
This means, our character will repeat the “Solve stair” function, with additional help by turning around and turning left. We defined “solve stair” in a separate space, so instead of writing all the code down we used a function shortcut. The character (Byte” goes through these steps:
Solve stair to collect gem.
Turn around and then solve stair to collect gem
Turn left then solve stair to collect gem
Finally turn around then solve stairs.
Hello Everyone! Today I will be talking about a video I’ve watched in Computer Technology Class. We watched “Everyone can code” and it was a very inspiring video. I believe that coding is very important and the people in the video are inspiring and they tell people that you can code no matter who you are. One of the people in the video that inspired me is the “Safe Delivery App,” (I don’t know the exact name). The app instructs women on how to safely give birth. I feel this is an important topic because this could change hundreds of peoples lives and help moms and babies across the world.
As the video said, “You shouldn’t cost life to give life,”
I hope you are all well.
Hello Everybody! Today I am talking about the program Tynker again. For our Computer Tech class, we are supposed to make music videos and animate something for them. My sound for the program doesn’t work on my iPad, but I chose the“fantasy theme,” for my project. I animated a dragon flying through space, looking for earth, and it wasn’t my best project, but I did what needed to be done. The animation was a bit choppy, but you could see the story I guess. I thought the project was a bit boring to be honest, but it was a good learning experience.
I hope you all are well.
Hello everybody! Today I am going to be talking about the program Tynker, and what we are doing with it. I am in the Computer Technology quarterly at my middle school, and we are using a program called Tynker to make it. Tynker is like a kids block based coding app where kids learn how to code and stuff. Anyways, it’s pretty easy. For class we have to build an about me page, where it shows different facts about ourselves. I put little people up on the screen, and coded stuff so that they would show a fact about me when clicked. It went somewhat like this.
when actor clicked
Say “I have a cat,” for 3 seconds
Of course I don’t really remember what I put, but we don’t have to talk about that. Anyways, I put around 4-5 people on my thing and called it a day. Overall it was pretty easy, but it is a good learning experience.
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and there is so much I need to talk about. But I will do that in another post. Today I will be reviewing a video called, “Computer Science is Changing Everything,” and talking about a specific part of the video.
The video has a couple parts, each talking about how computers have affected the industry. Today I will talk about the agriculture part of it. The video interviews a person who has built a software to monitor lettuce crops, and improve the amount of lettuce harvested. What I find intriguing is that agriculture is one of the most important industries in the world, and it is really important to our society. The fact that we can automate our crop management, and have a computer nurture to each crop. The “Lettuce Bot” is used in the video to see and manage 1.5 million crops. Now that is a lot of crops. If we can use this technology for crops in the world, thousands of peoples lives will be changed, and farming will become much less taxing. This is one of the many examples the video states, and it is truly a wonder what computers can do.
I will follow up on some of the things that I’ve been doing in another post.
I hope you all are well.
When I wrote part three I thought that was going to be the end of capstone, but I was wrong!
We were showing the videos for our capstone, and I thought mine was great. Fast, with tons of information that I was going to share. That came back to bite me in the back, because it was too fast, and even I couldn’t understand my capstone! And with some public humiliation, I realized it wasn’t going to make the cut. I was devastated. For two whole days I was in a bad mood, not perking up anytime. But today I realized I needing to change it. I realized I needed to redo my capstone. All of it. Script, recording, media. I had to change it all. I took my 993 word script and cut it too 644 words. I took away run on sentences, other information I didn’t need, and every bit of excess stuff off. That took an hour. Then, I rerecorded my video, from beginning to end, I redid it ALL. It was slower, and shorter, and way easier to understand. Then, I took my images, and tailored them to the words. It was hard, and I had to get it exactly right. But finally after hard work, my spirts were lifted, and I had finished my capstone, another time. Thank goodness I did that. It was so much better this time. Thank you to my father for helping me with the project! Whew! A big weight has been lifted off my shoulders!
After hours and hours of hard work on the script of my capstone, which includes my interview, my information, and my questions, I finally finished working on the hardest part of the capstone, the script. I poured over information for the past month, searching for answers to the questions I have asked at the beginning of this. Finally, I collected all the information I needed to start working on my script. I strived to write formally instead of the classic informal writing I use in this blog post. That was very very hard, and I didn’t enjoy that at all. But soon, the script was ready to go, and I could start working on my movie. Over the past two days, I worked my head off recording and animating my movie in WeVideo, a movie software that we used for other projects in the past. I scanned the internet for free pictures and terminology that I needed. It was hard work, but I finally finished the movie! Overall, I am proud of my work, having spent almost a month filling out the requirements for the project, and it will probably prepare me for middle school.
I also need to answer my main question, “How do the different participants in a courtroom trial interact to conduct a trial and reach a verdict?” That was a tough one, because there were two answers to it. One for criminal cases, and one for civil cases. For criminal cases, the system is harsh. The defense fights with the prosecution, the judge oversees, and the jury watches. For civil cases, the plaintiff fights with the defendant, but it could be the judge or the jury watching the trial. That is the answer to my main inquiry question. I would like to thank Mike Gluck, Mr Casal, and Mrs. Robert for helping me with this project.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkZPHJsgXk&list=PLB96r9gj6B-Y-TwRAkZUa93-QMCVWtKwa&index=18&t=0s
