Computer Science is Changing Everything Blog Post

The past 3 centuries have focusesd on one thing that had lead us to were we are today, in the world. The 19th century was about the industrial revalution. The 20th century was about physics and engineering. The 21th century is the digital age. Everything you do in life, comes from technology, or is a result of technology. Doing normal things like playing baseball, or become a race car diver, all of these things have been turned upside down, by software. A few examples would be : Planting seeds. Instead on having to plant one seed at a time. you could use a machine to do all of the work for you, which wasn’t posibal without computer science and technology.  Fashion. Now you usually do online shopping or you are creating our designs online. You need to know programming. Medicine. New tech for illnesses and ways to create things are being made everythday. Your doctor uses an x-ray to see what happened to your ankle. Energy. Software helps with saving energy, make their carbon emmisons less. Computers help with calculation that are impossible for humans to figure out. Technology is in everything, and things that don’t have tech, are a result of tech.

Week 3 Blog Post

The project I picked was Ariella’s project. I liked the project because the background is constantly changing with a new character except for the last one, since all of the characters were together at the end. I also like how Ariella ended the prject by saying ” Thanks for watchings -Ariella.” It added a nice touch to the video. I liked the animation because, when a new background appeared, there was a new actor for each one, and each background fit the actor in that background. For example, the dragon was flying around the castle and was breathing fire. The castle blended with the dragon. The sound track went along with the entire peace. It wasn’t out of place, it was there and that really made the peice seem like a cartoony music video.

Week 2 Blog Post

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This week, in tynker I started Loops and Animations. In the introduction of it tynker basically tells us that we have to help him/ program him to survive the trip. The second lesson tells us to play a game to grab the floating object, by pressing the space bar at the right time. The next lesson we learn about programming concepts. You have 3 buttons: actors, costumes, and code blocks. When you click each on you get information on each one. The fourth lesson is just working on costumes. The fifth lesson is fixing the animation speed. You basically, change the speed so gus can stay on the screen. The 6th lesson tells us how to animate on your own and the last lesson gives a chance to make our own animations. Overall the entire thing was kind of easy, but something that was difficult was the actuall coding, because I am not really that experienced in coding.

For my About Me project I played around with a lot of the codes like. My About Me project’s background is hogwarts, and I picked that background, because I am a huge fan of harry potter. For my character, I pick a character that kind of looked like me. Since I had done Loops and Animations this week I decided to use what I learned, like the speed lesson, I learned what speed to keept the animation at, so it wouldn’t go the screen 2 seconds later.