This week, my spreadsheet is how much exercise I did per day, a “Wellness Log.” I thought that I would bike, or run but I didn’t, I did more walking and exercise in P.E. than usual. This is how I did one of my formulas:

1. First, I clicked on the column “c”
2. Then, I pressed in that column and pressed the right arrow
3. It gave me more options and I selected “Z-A”
4. This put my column in order

You could make a spreadsheet about how much you have spent per month. You could also make a spreadsheet about how much money you have made or saved. These two ideas would help you manage your money. Below is a chart of the spreadsheet I created about my exercises. 

In the second program, I tried to copy in examples because it was easier than writing it all out again but I went through many errors. My questions were about chocolate and vanilla desserts, which one was better? What was your favorite dessert for that one? And more. I had to make sure that my first code had no errors whatsoever because my other codes were built off of that. If I had an error in my first code, I would have to change it in all. It sounds hard and tiring but it is really fun because you get to break down steps and see what each of them do. This project was really fun and interesting, it was also our first time coding with our own words and not ones that have already been written for us. Below is a picture with my code!

This week, I worked on the commands section and the function sections on the coding app, Swift Playgrounds. It was hard to realize what step I was doing, I didn’t know that I could press turn right twice to just turn around! These steps helped because they made the code easier. It helped when I drew out the steps on Notability because it was breaking it down.

Steps:

Byte moves 1 step forward.

Byte turns left

Byte takes 2 steps forward

Byte toggles switch

Byte takes four steps forward

Byte collects gem

    It was hard to figure out that you had to take a step forward before collecting the gem. Before, I would press “collect gem” thinking that it would take a step by itself. This may sound easy to figure out but it took me some time. This new app “Swift Playgrounds” is so fun!

I find that the programmers job is really cool because they are creating solutions to our problems. It’s exciting to come home and be like, “I want to make an app.” Coding helps fix and do things because it is like giving orders. For instance, when a code says, “MoveForward()” you are making it walk. Kiera says that before she coded, she watched beginner videos and it wasn’t that hard. This helps because she is showing her steps. Kiera got a letter from President Obama, I think that I should take her advice.

I liked a music project by Aidan C. because it was upbeat and fun. I liked that they were all jumping around and enjoying themselves. I tried to make my actors jumped but it wouldn’t work and was hard. I think it was really cool that this person was able to do this animation. I can’t hear the soundtrack but based on what I see going on, I think that the sound would be upbeat and happy. Overall, I liked this project because it was showing cool actors having fun!

In tynker, I like that you can add different characters and have instructions for just that character. It makes things better because not every character is doing the same movements. I keep forgetting that for each character or background you have to change it at the top to see what that character is doing. I found putting the steps in order a bit difficult because I kept pressing “when actor touched” instead of “when screen touched.” This is something I can work on and will probably find easy soon.

I used three different actors, a blue guy, a chocolate bar, and a pirate octopus. I used the “wait 1 sec” block a couple times, I think it is a good block because it gives a small break between the steps and puts them into sections. I used the sounds feature which is something that we used in the “Programming 201.” This project was really fun because I got to learn new features.

In the video, “Computer Science is Changing everything,” I learned that computers help us so much in our daily lives and if you try, something great could come out of it. To illustrate, one woman said that if she did not know how to code, it would be like not knowing how to read. In other words, difficult to live without. It is interesting how computer science helps significantly in different areas, it can help with searching a question to checking what is wrong with someone. Overall, I learned that computer science has benefited everyday things.