Weekly Reflection

Jeroo is done, because we took the final quiz. I liked it, it's more fun than Alice (in case you can't tell at this point, I didn't like Alice, I know it taught fundamentals of Java like methods and loops, but the syntax was most of the time confusing and was hard to find stuff), and I liked it. This week, Mr. Stephens noticed that me and my friends tend to play a lot of games once done with the labs, and so he gave us an interesting (and mandatory) challenge for next semester. He told us that if we wanted to play a game in his class after the Christmas break, we would have to make it ourselves, which got me thinking about how would I incorporate multiplayer into a Java game besides sharing a computer...? Like for instance if I wanted to play Pong with Gus, but didn't wanna have to share a keyboard? Hmm. Anyways, this week was fun as usual.

Grooveshark

When I am on my computer and I hear a thing of music, but I don't want to bike all the way to Waterloo Records to buy a CD, I go to Grooveshark, a website dedicated giving you free music to stream. The way it works is that Grooveshark hosts their servers, and you can upload your own music libraries to Grooveshark. You and other people can then search for music, and listen to each others copyrighted material, but don't worry, it's 100% legal. It doesn't include downloads, just streaming. Check it out! http://listen.grooveshark.com/#

Weekly Reflection

This week in Computer Science, we finished up Jeroo. Jeroo actually got hard for me when I tried to make compound conditionals work, and it failed horribly. Ifs was very easy for me, and I kind of went through those labs really fast. I had a fun time with Jeroo overall, and using it kind of got me warmed up to Java which we will be using next semester. Trying to use the methods in Jeroo was a bit unorganized, because they were all kept in this one little method (tab). But I like Jeroo, and am ready to move on to Java.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Release

This week on the 10th, a new addition to the Call of Duty first person shooter series was released. Dubbed "Black Ops", it combines many of the game series' previous titles with aspects from other game series. Being a huge addition to the series seeing that the previous game was a glitchy mess, in which every single gun in the game was over powered, being an owner of Black Ops myself, I can say for sure that I like Black Ops much better than Modern Warfare 2. I also play the game with friends such as Calvin and Michael, and others from Kealing.

Weekly Reflection

This week was more of Jeroo, which I thought to be a very nifty program now. At first, it seemed a bit repetitive and inefficient, but as we got into methods and loops, the challenges actually became easier and easier for me. Instead of having to type up 20 lines of code to do a very simple task, it took me 5 lines of code to call a method a certain number of times, and using while loops to detect conditions. I am enjoying Jeroo much more than Alice so far, because it gives you more freedom than Alice, and also because you don't have to search around forever for a certain function, you just type it.

Urban Terror

When I am done with all my labs during computer science, I like to play a free First Person Shooter game with my friends. The game is called Urban Terror, and it's a (now) free and very old Quake III mod, which the developers developed into its own individual game. It's loads of fun, as the the slogan suggests (Fun over realism.) and I primarily like it because it's relatively small (900 mb) with low system requirements, and it's free for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh.

Weekly Reflection

This week in Jeroo, we went over methods and I thought I had a way easier time with methods in Jeroo than I did with methods in Alice. Alice methods were all premade and stuff and I had no clue what to do with them because I was used to just making my own methods and then doing stuff that way. It was also alot nicer having a UI like Eclipse where you can just say "Run" and the program will run and you can see what you did wrong, and in Alice it went all fullscreen and annoyed me alot. So so far I am liking Jeroo the most.