Weekly Reflection

Now that we are FINALLY moving into concepts of Java, I see why Mr. Stephens had us do Alice and Scratch, because the concepts and commands that we learned in those can be pretty easily translated to Java code. We haven't started on making methods yet in Java, but I'm actually enjoying the Jeroo, as I thought I wouldn't like it.

LBJ vs McCallum Game

I went to my first football game this Thursday at house park, during which LBJ played McCallum. Football isn't really my favorite sport, but it wasn't really the game that made it so fun, it was the cheering for LBJ. I thought that LBJ had kickass fans, and Mac just sat around banging their little noise sticks together. The school spirit of LBJ was great, even though we lost. I had loads of fun and hope to at future football games.

Weekly Reflection

This week, we learned more about Alice, and commands like using lists an more (Mostly events). Using events I found to be easier than using things like lists, where you had to add a bumch of items to it instead of just compiling a bunch of commands into a method and then calling that method, like you would do for events. Even though lists helped me out lots when I figured them out, they were still harder for me than using events.

LAN Party

This weekend I went to a LAN Party at a friend's house, which is basically where you set up a bunch of computers and play games together, and I didn't get much sleep. Actually none at all. I am now fully getting the consequences of my actions, seeing as I have much homework for each of my classes, and I am sleep deprived.

Weekly Reflection

This week, we learned more about things in Alice, and I realized how much easier it is to get into a subject gradually instead of jumping in all at once. I'm also kind of glad that I didn't take AP Computer Science, just because it would require so much previous knowledge that I don't have or know how to implement correctly.

ACL

As we all know, this weekend was Austin City Limits Festival, at which one of my favorite artists Deadmau5 (pronounced Dead mouse) played, but unfortunately I couldn't find tickets in time to go on Saturday. I heard he was great though... sad face

Weekly Reflection

Even though the concepts in Alice are getting more and more complex, even sometimes surpassing my previous knowledge in Java, I'm doing my best and keeping up in Computer Science, and making the most of it. The labs that Mr. Stephens has us complete are very very useful to me at least, because when we start doing Java, I can have something to look back at and refer to if I have problems. This week was good.

My stuff i found this week

This week, my dad bought starcraft ii, a real time strategy game, and it's been a learning experience for both of us, because i'm new to it and he is too.

Weekly Reflection

This week we finished up Scratch, which I felt very confident about, and moved into Alice, a more advanced vocabulary of programming. It requires you know terms that you will need to know in Java, so it prepares us for the future. I am enjoying Computer Science 1 about as much as I enjoyed Java in 7th grade, in which it was another hands on experience. I'm trying to currently decide if I like Alice as much as Scratch, or both as much as Java, but I still like this class.