League of Legends

As people already know, I like to play games in my spare time. Recently I picked up a game called League of Legends, which is a free game which is a mix between real time strategy games and action games, where you control a character who moves around the map and has damaging abilities, and the point of the game is to kill the other teams nexus and protect yours, but each of them is protected by lanes of towers that you have to go by to get to the nexus. You can also kill enemy champions to make it easier. But overall for a free game this game is amazing.

Weekly Reflection

This week in computer science, we worked in an application called app inventor, which was a fairly basic programming layout, similar to scratch. The layout was all drag and drop, and when you actually needed components to do things, you would open a blocks editor, which would allow you to create functions for buttons and such. I thought that it was a lot like scratch, but with this we were actually making things that were worthwhile. We were able to make apps and test them on an on onscreen emulator or on an actual Android phone, and I also think that this might be what dethrones the iPhone from its reign of awful (Just because it's Apple doesn't mean you look cool if you buy it)...

FL Studio

As many of my friends do, I also enjoy listening to certain genres of music featuring computer made sounds. Usually called "techno" or "electronic" music, there are many subgenres such as dubstep and house, so I decided to try my hand at making some of this music. Using Fruity Loops Studio, I was able to create my own tracks that were incredibly crude (sound, not content), but I learned how to do this, and I hope to develop my skills a bit more until I can make decent original content.

Weekly Reflection

This week in python we worked on files labs, which I didn't actually get done, as I was finishing up nested loops. Thank god though, we had a challenge to complete Lightbot 2.0 to replace one assignment, which was very useful for me. It is a programming type concept of a game, and was really fun to play. It had a similar layout as Scratch. It was fairly simple, and I actually showed my dad who is an electrical engineer, and he thought it was really cool.