Weekly Reflection

This week in computer science we worked more on using app inventor, but the functions became more and more complex. We got to the point where we were making apps that could go and find and record a persons current location, instead of just having a bunch of colors and painting on a cats face. I would be a lot more interested in app inventor if we were making things like brick breaker or something that has entertainment value.

Computers on our Wrists

Now this is an interesting idea I found on a design blog, and it combines the concepts of a wrist watch, a cell phone, and a computer all into one. I'm pretty sure this is a fictional thing, but the idea is still cool if it were feasible. It seems to combine touch technology with actual keyboard compnents. Check it out here.

Weekly Reflection

This week in computer science we started on app inventor. App inventor is a free tool developed by Google with a very simple interface similar to Scratch. You drag and drop components you want and then launch a blocks editor, which can then assign functions to the components. You can run your app on a virtual emulation of the Android OS, or you can run it on an actual Android phone if you want to. This software is available to everyone who has a Google account. I also like what Google did by coding the blocks editor in Java, making it compatible with every major operating system (Mac, PC, Linux).

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.