Peasant Quest

Homestar Runner is a character I have enjoyed throughout elementary school. Who is he? Well, he is a flash cartoon who has friends like Strong Sad, Strong Bad, and Strong Mad. I know this isn't making any sense, but in one of the cartoons, Strong Bad draws a picture of a dragon called "Trogdor the Burninator" who is supposedly a dragon who kills an entire village of peasants. In the game Peasant Quest, you play a peasant who has had their house "burninated", and seek vengeance on Trogdor. The thing I like most about this game is the fact that it is in a sort of 8 bit art style. Check it out at .

Weekly Reflection

Through the past few weeks, we have been working on using Nested loops, which are useful in telling if two conditions are true, and then giving output accordingly. This includes things like finding if the length of a word is 6, and then seeing if the word has a J in it, for example. This was a lot harder than just plain Else/If/Elif, but didn't prove to be all that much of a problem.

Video Editing

Recently, I have found myself playing a lot of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and got together with a friend and decided that it would be cool if we pooled our skills at the game and video editing and made some cool videos about the game. These included just a lot of general things like gameplay and talking about the game, and all of which had awesome effects over the gameplay.

Weekly Reflection

This week we used Python to check the length of a word given. I thought this was fairly easy, and got through the labs fairly quickly. In comparison to the Elif/Else/If labs, this was much easier, because all you were doing was checking word lengths or seeing if a certain letter was in a word, so it was just using a boolean operator to check true/false values.

Heatsink

This week, I learned the importance of proper cooling on my computer, when I looked over at my core temperatures on my CPU and saw that they were around 120 Fahrenheit. I thought, "Hey, maybe I should get a better heatsink than the stock heatsink that came with my Phenom II X4 965. I was thinking about buying a water cooling heatsink, but the one I was looking at cost $110, which is just a wee bit expensive, so I'll probably end up getting a Cooler Master or something.

Weekly Reflection

This week in Python, we learned how to use Else/If/Elif statements to tell if something is true, and then execute an event if it is true, and else to tell if something isn't, then execute something if it isn't. We also learned how to do Elifs, which are nested else/if statements, where if a condition is true, and if another condition is true, then something will result, else something else will happen.