𝕮𝖆𝖎𝖙𝖑𝖎𝖓'𝖘 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖌~

Recently I made a spreadsheet. I did it on the spreadsheet app. It was pretty easy to make it because it’s really easy to make spreadsheets using the spreadsheets app. You can simply add text in the already made spreadsheet, highlight it and then turn it into a chart! There’s a bunch of different options to use for the chart, like a line graph, scatter graph, bar graph, etc.

On Tuesday, I have an hour of riding (sixty minutes) and twenty minutes of walking my dog. To get the total, I would need to add up the number of minutes, so I would need to add up sixty and twenty. But what if it was too hard for me? (Of course, the question wasn’t, but if it was a harder one I would now know how to add it up without having to do the math or take out a calculator!) Spreadsheets has plans for adding though, since a lot of times numbers are involved in spreadsheets. All you have to do is press a box to write. Then, you can (at the bottom) add a equal symbol. Press the = and then you can simply click the things you would like to add up. After that, you’ll get the answer!

Spreadsheets would be really useful to do many things. For example, if you need to keep track of how much time you have to do homework, you could add all the activities you have per day, add up the minutes, and then see how much time you would have left for homework!

My wellness spreadsheet:

In Swift Playgrounds, you learn all about coding. You learn how to code independently with no limits. Here is a code I’ve recently written:

The most challenging thing about writing this code is probably having to type it without instructions. Typing it independently is harder because you might not know all the correct spelling of everything (capitals, grammar, spelling, etc.) and the suggestions to help you sometimes don’t know what you’re looking for. But I found the challenge fun and interesting to learn. I liked challenging myself to write a code. It’s satisfying to see the end result and fun to play out the codes you’ve written. You can also mess around with what they’re saying, which is also pretty fun! It was difficult at times, like when I couldn’t figure out what to do with the options, or how to do it (I learned you needed to put brackets), but overall it was fun and enjoyable. I look forward to learning more from Swift Playgrounds.

In “Swift Playgrounds” I am currently on the level “Loop Jumper”. I plan on coding more over the weekend, but for now this is where I am at.

Loop Jumper was a difficult level because I wasn’t sure how to repeat the pattern. First Byte had to go left, and then Byte had to go right, and so on and so forth. I was confused on how to fix this problem. I tried to make several loops, but that didn’t go well as they couldn’t go at the same time. To solve this problem, I decided to write out the code without loops. This wasn’t too hard, as I could just count the steps. I finished that and then looked for a pattern. I realized that the pattern of left and right wasn’t actually too confusing, and that I could just loop it. The pattern was “left right right” over and over, and didn’t change. Byte smacked his head on the wall once or twice, but it got the problem solved.

Overall, I liked the level. I’m glad that I completed it successfully, and I hope to complete more in the future!

For school, we’re learning a new code. We have to get this character, “Byte”, to the gem and to toggle on the switch using “The Shortest Route”.

This was confusing to me. I decided I would do better if I simply deleted the script and wrote it from scratch. I wrote it out by counting the squares to the gem. After that, I counted the squares to the portal. Then I counted the steps until I got to the switch, in which I could toggle it. After that, I checked the “board” and re evaluated my decision to see if I could get there with a shorter route. I finally found a short route!

For a school assignment, my classmates and I made Tynker music videos and shared them to our class. I watched some and found Hannah’s project. I really like her music video.

One thing I like about it is the music she picked, and how it goes with her characters. In the beginning of the song, there was a drum part. The drummer girl pretty much matched the beat and it looked like she was playing it. There was also the fields, which went well with the catchy music.

There was also the robot. Even though the robot didn’t fit in the surroundings, I think it was a good thing to add it! It was good because she added another aspect to the project. You could drag the robot, which added something she probably learned from the ‘Programming 201’ lessons.

Overall, I think it’s super cool the way she fit everything together with the music, background, and actors. The robot was a nice effect, especially the dragging part!

Recently on Tynker I made an about me project, so that my teacher and classmates would get to know me better. It’s called “About Me!” and it shows my hobbies, interests, and favorite places!

A few codes a found really useful in the making of this were the “wait _ seconds” code, the “switch to costume _____” and “go to x: __ y: __”. There were a few others I found helpful as well, like “on start” and “switch to background”. These are my most used codes. I learned from the Programming 201 how to move my characters, and how to use “when actor clicked”. They were very useful!

The ocean part is supposed to show that I love the ocean and it’s creatures, and the guitar part that I love guitar. I like skiing and ice skating and building snowmen, as shown before. In the scene with cooking it shows that the one with the dog shows that I love dogs, and the cooking scene that I love cooking! I’m also very interested in space, as shown. I thought the emoji at the end would be a good way to end it.

The “About Me!” project was very fun to make, and helped me learn to code using Tynker. I hope to learn more in the future!

The idea I think was very intriguing was definitely the one that Vida explained about the sequencer.

I think one of the reasons it’s really important is because it can help people all around. The sequencer can narrow down from a thousand illnesses to the single one that you have. That means that it can help different people all around the world. It can save someone’s life by finding their illness before it’s too late. It doesn’t just help the people with the illness though. The sequencer can also help the people analyzing the data it sends. It gives them a job, a job that will help people all over the world. The sequencer can also find new illnesses like the coronavirus. The sequencer can find the illness before it breaks out in a pandemic and can give scientists time to experiment for cures.

The sequencer is one of the many methods that computer science helped and played a crucial part in the world. Not many people know about the sequencer, but without it, sicknesses could be a lot worse. I think it’s terrific that computer science can save lives, even if it’s really just by analyzing spit. Computer science is changing everything, and a lot of it for the better.