Lights, Camera, WRAP UP!

Gotcha there, didn't I? By the way, my blog post title goes hand in hand with Mr.Arkin's blog post title. Cool eh?

Class today was a very interesting affair. We continued to work in our groups and become a 4. But instead of working in my group today, I worked with Grace to understand some of the concepts I didn't get in my group. I have to say, Grace really helped me so if you're reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Anyways, I will be leaving and going to India tomorrow. My flight is at 5.45 and I'm so excited. I promise to blog whenever I will get the chance - (I doubt I will be free enough but still.....there is some hope.) And when I come back, I will definetely post some pictures of my trip.

Mr. Arkin said to 'eat good food' in India and I plan to take his advice. I think that I will get the opportunity to closer and more familiar with my home country and its customs.

My schedule is packed from the moment I get off the plane; I will only get 2 days in the end to relax. I sincerely hope I will be able to recover from the jet-lag.

I am almost done packing and like the responsible kid I am (haha), I have packed my computer notes so I can review them while on the plane and during my stops in Amsterdam (4 hours when I'm going, and 8 when I come back.)

Anyways, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Sincerely,
Natasha who has been smothered in hugs :-)

P.S I think that I will really miss you guys while I'm away! :'-(

Peer Tutoring Benefits!

Hello readers,

Before I start my actual ICS related blog, I need to take the time to say that tomorrow will be my last day in school before I go off for holidays.

*back-to-work sort of attitude* Anyhow, getting back to the topic, today in class we continued to 'become a 4' in our groups. It was a great help as both of my group members were very strong and understood the concepts well. It was a good learning experience for me. Thank you Jerry and Andres! (By the way, Jerry, if you're reading this, I put your name first as you said - LOL :P)

Our homeowrk for today is our daily blog (check) and to continue becoming a 4; which I think I am on my way to becoming.

Cheers,
Natasha

P.S That holidays are getting extremely close!

I've Caught a Dandelion and I'm on My Way Back to Earth!

The title of my post is related to my yesterday's blog post title http://www.natashajain.blogspot.com/. Yesterday, I recall that I had told you my brain had "Gone with the Explosion". Today it seems as if my brain had hitched a ride with a passing by dandelion and is on it's way back to the surface.

What I mean by that is I am slowly beginning to understand the concept that only yesterday sounded like an alien language to me! Mr.Arkin, Andres and Jerry were a huge help to me today! Mr.Arkin patiently took all of my questions (which were very muddled up I must admit) and clearly clarified the concepts.

Yesterday we learnt about functions, and today Mr.Arkin introduced us to programmer-defined procedures. A procedure is a subprogram which performs a defined task. We learnt a new keyword today 'procedure'.

The second major thing that we did in ICS today was rate our understanding of programming on a scale of 0-4, with 4 being 'I perfectly get the concepts and can ace any test you throw my way!'. I rated myself as a 2, partly due to my not understanding substrings, arrays, function, and procedure clearly. We then got into a group of three in which all people were a different level. Our job for the rest of the week is to become a '4'. We'll accomplish that by going through all of our notes. If we aren't 100% clear with the concept, our group has the task of explaining it to us. Mt group consists of Jerry and Andres; both who are very strong in Turing. I think we make a great group. I ask the "What if.." "But how..." and "So whats..." and they answer them.

Our homework is to create a function under the name of 'nextConstant' and to type our daily blog as usual.

BTW, 2 more days left.

Cheers,
Natasha Jain 

Gone With the Explosion!

You readers are so predictable; I know exactly what you're thinking. You're thinking isn't it 'Gone with the Wind'?

The name of the movie is actually Gone with the Wind, but Gone with the Explosion best describes my state right now. Explanation to title as follows :

We had ICS today first period and boy, o, boy was it very busy. Today Mr.Arkin introduced to us a variety of different things. The first thing that we did was write an algorithms. Algorithms are specific instructions that explain the program. Mr.Arkin told us that it is best to write algorithms out and then make your program (on Turing in our case.) We wrote our algorithms in pseudocode. Pseudocode is a mix of both English and Turing language. It is a great help and very beneficial I noticed!

Next, we were introduced to programmer defined functions. Programmer defined functions are subprograms. One instance subprograms can be created in is when you are creating multiple program each with a simmilarity. In this case, all you need to do after you write the program is to simply "call" it wherever needed!

Two important keywords we learnt today were "result" and "function"; both extremely important in creating a function.

Our homework for today is to check the assignments 10 - 24 and make a function (subprogram) for them is needed (which in my case is a YES!)

BTW, 3 more days left before I leave for India. (I haven't started packing yet, though)

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

1/2 Day Today!

Hey readers! Today was a half day which meant that school ended at 12:00 on the dot. (Well, maybe not on the dot, but you get what I mean right???) Anyways, this also meants that all of our periods were cut down. We had all 4 classes in the morning but for 40 minutes each. Cool eh?

Anways, since we had a shorter class, the teachers had less time to finish what they had planned for us today. In ICS, we took some notes on counter loops and then Mr.Arkin showed us some of his programs with encompassed counter loops. It was very interesting to see how efficient the counter loops are.

We also learned a few more important key words. The rest of the period was spent asking questions and familiarizing ourselves with the counter loops.

All in all, a very good day. Oops...I mean half day. :P

Our homework is to complete our daily blog and to modify substrings assignment number 9 so that in the run window the program put the next consonant. That wasn't so good of an explanation was it??
Ok, here's an example.
If I put in table as my word, I should see ----- uacme ----- in the run window.

I must go finish that assignment.

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

P.S IT"S SNOWING LIKE CRAZY OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.P.S 4 more days until I go to India!

One Week of Substrings Complete!

What do I mean by one week of substrings done? I mean that most of us have learned and almost completed all the substring assignments without Mr.Arkin's assistance.

All of us went on the substrings page and understood the concept. Then we used our knowledge of substrings and other useful stuff we have learned to complete the questions 1 by 1.

I have to say that there were times when I was stumped, but I'm lucky that I had my friends and peers to help me out in those sticky situations.

In class, Mr.Arkin wasn't here again; soinstead of having our substrigs quiz, we spent the period woring on the rest of the substring assignments if we had any left. (BTW, it really helps when you do the question and think it out on paper and pencil first.)

I am currently on #18, which means that I after this one, I have 6 more to work on. Mr.Arkin would like us to have all of the assignments done by Monday.

This is a bit off-topic, but I must say that I have a lot of work. You're probably thinking, what's new - we all have a lot of work!

Aah, that's where you are wrong, I have a lot more work than your average IB kid. Next Friday (as in a week from today) will be my last day in school before I go to India for the holidays. Cool eh?

Not so much when you have a load of homework, test and essays that teachers expect you to complete before you go.

Anyways, I have confidence that I can finish all of my work on time.

Sincerely,
Natasha Jain who is struggling to keep her head above all the homework she has.

Substring Continued Part 2

How do you like the title guys?
*audience with raised eyebrows*
Ok, I know it isn't exactly original but it'll have to do because the title explains exactly what we have to do in class today. 

We continued on our substrings assignments. I like a fool, used built-in functions in my program when Mr. Arkin told us not to. So, I spent the entire period working on editing the assignments. I integrated ASCII codes like we were supposed. Luckily, in class I have time to finish 2 more substrings assignments after I was done editing my incorrect program. That now brings me up to assignment # 11.

Mr.Arkin told us in the wikispaces message that he expects us to have a minimum of 15 assignements and a maximum of all (24) assignments. It is close to impossible for me to finish all assignments by tomorrow so I'm going to aim for 15.

Eleven down, 4 more to go!

Anyways, after that I'll going to look over my notes in preperation for our substrings quiz tomorrow adn maybe if I have time I'll study for the programming test next week.

Adios,
Natasha Jain

Substrings Continued!

Don't mind me today guys; I'm just not feeling up to par which concludes why my blog entry today will be very basic.

We had computer science class Period A today. We also had a spirit assembly today which is why we missed about 25-30 minutes of class. The assembly was very interesting by the way. (Don't ask me what I mean by interesting.)

When we came back to class we set straight to work on our substrings assignments. I have to say that I am not the only one having trouble with substrings assignments #5. Note to readers : I spent more than half the period working on substrings assignment 5 and I still haven't finished it. How on earth does that happen? *incredulous look*

Mr.Arkin wasn't in class today and unfortunately won't be here tomorrow as well. He sent us a wiki message saying that there will be a substrings quiz on Friday. I suppose that is a good wake-up call for those people who have been misusing their class time - MYSELF NOT INCLUDED!
Ha ha!

I didn't understand index in class but Grace kindly explained to me the concepts. (She confused me a bit but called to clear up the confusion !)

Anyways, our homework is to continue working on the substrings assignments and make good progress.

Signing off,
a blue Natasha (by blue, I mean not feeling well)

Hi, I'd like my Sub with a String of Cheese! Part 2

Don't worry, I'm not really hungry; so you can get rid of your fear of a wrath of hungry person.
You readers can probably tell from my personality (and if you read my blog yesterday) that I'm not really talking about getting a sub - but in reality, our new Turing topic substrings.

Unfortunately, Mr. Arkin here today either and nor will he be tomorrow. So, we spent the entire period working on our substrings assignments. I have to say it really pays off if you read the instructions and the substrings page properly. I spent nearly 30 minutes on a question and it took Grace less than 1 minute to help me.

I, of course, was gaping at her like an open-mouthed idiot. (In response to my look, she simply said I read the substrings page.)

I read the page, but I suppose not properly. It was sort of like reading the owrds from one part of my brain and then throwing it out from the other side before actually processing it.

I think that I learned a very valuable lesson today. (BTW, another thing I learned is that it's better if you spend 1 hour on a question and actually understand the concept.)

Our homework for today is our daily blog posting and good progress towards out substring assignments.

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

Hi, I'd like my Sub with a String of Cheese !

*audience giving me a dissaproving look*
*totally innocent look* What! You didn't like it? I thought that it was pure genius. Anyways....the clue to what we did today was sort of in the title.
BTW Ada, if you're read the title ... MLIA. Ha ha!

Anyways, today Mr.Arkin wasn't here but he left specific instructions that we were to work on the substring assignments.

I used the period to get familiar with the whole concept of substrings and then I made progress working on the assignments.

Overall, it was a pretty good day.

(Sorry, I kow that it is an extremely short blog pot, but nothing worth mentioning happened)

Sincerely,
Natasha Jain

Is it Friday Already???///???

Isn't is amazing how fast the week is over? *don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question - and if you don't know what 'rhetorical' means then look it up in the dictionary*

Anyways, I don't know what you guys are doing on your Friday night, but I'm staying at school.

(audience in sarcastic voice) Oooh! Staying over at the school, that's gonna be fun.

Hey, chill out guys. I'm not staying over at school for work purposes; it Girls about Girls tonight.
I'm really looking forward to Girls about Girls; specially since a lot of my close friends are going to be there. I  really think that it'll be a good experience.

Anyways, getting over my exitement (or not....I know....I don't sound tooooooooo exicted, but I actually am), class today was a catch-up period. As soon as we got in, (BTW no Studio 218) Mr.Arkin annouced that we were going to have a Turing Show-Off! This was basically an opportunity to show-off our work to our classmates and get some feedback and suggestion. Only Andres was brave enough to share his program; so kudos to him.

One main thing that we all learned out of this lesson (short talk is more like it) was a brief idea of what we would be doing for our culminating activities.

The rest of the period was spent,  scratch that, is being spent working on completing all our other assignments and other work we need to complete.

I, as you can all see, am spending my time extremely well by FINISHING MY BLOG.
Ha, ha!

I really cut the load off, didn't I? *sarcastic tone*

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

P.S It's getting awfullt close to Christmas, isn't it? It's certainly going to be a winter wonderland.

P.P.S :@ Unfortunately, I WILL NOT be here to witness this winter wonderland since I will be in India (I don't know if I should be happy about this fact or sad) Maybe both?

What are the Three Important Skills of Successful Programmers?

If you readers are good at picking up hints, you may have already caught on that this blog entry is totally serious; as in no jokes, no sarcasm, no idiocity.

Today Mr.Arkin explained to us the 3 most important things associated with becoming a successful programmer. ( My advice to you guys :  Don't ask questions. Jus follow the rules. - just kidding.....partially ...)

After that, Mr.Arkin went over to three logical solution to repetition assignment number 8. One of them, Mr. Arkin had previously told me. (I felt special. Ha! )

BTW, just some cool info; Mr.Arkin's favourite datatype is boolean. Cool eh?

The rest of the period was spent continuing to work on our assignments. For most of us. While everyone else was working on their repetition assignments, I went to Mr.Arkin to ask for some well-needed help. (Seriously, arrays are so NOT my field of expertise - technically speaking I'm still an amateur at EVERYTHING....but still)

Thankfully, I was able to somewhat grasp the concept of arrays...not quite.

Anyways, I've made up my mind to talk to you guys (ONLY for today) about my other classes.... I've noticed that I've never done that. I'll go in order.

Period A : Computers - 'As described above'

Period B : Geography - We got back our test which I'm surprised to see that I did really good on. (Don't give me that look, I honestly studied hard for that)

Period C : English - We got back 3 pieces of marks out of which I didn't do so great on 1 of them. (Oh, I passed alright..... - it's sort of an Indian fail though)

Period D : Art - I spent 2 days working on a masterpiece (according to me), just to have my art teacher say that it was a load of rubbish. (The name of the teacher remains classified information. )

As you guys (and girls) can plainly see, my day has been an up and down roller coaster.

One piece of advice to you; YOU GUYS ARE IN IB. YOU ARE EXPECTED TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE EXPECTATIONS.

That was sort of an inspiration from my english teacher....who by the way had my entire english class in a frenzy from her "little speech".

Anyways, each day is important and can't be re-lived.

Signing off,
Natasha Jain

Would like to chose from this ARRAY of chocolates?

*sarcastic and disbelieving look* Pssh! Did you guys honestly beleive that I, out of all people, was gicing our free chocolate. Natasha never, ever, ever, EVER gives out chocolate for free.

By the way, I hope that you guys understood the relevance of the word 'array'.
But since I'm sure that you guys didn't, I explain anyways. Today in ICS, we moved on to array's, which makes writing huge programs with many values waaaaaaaaaaayy easier. *Notice the long 'a' sound*
Two more impotant keyword we were introduced to were 'array' and 'of'. And array means a collection or set. Throughout class, we took many notes. I have to say, I'm back to square 1 with the whole 'grasping information' situtation. *sigh*

I'm trying to get the hang of it, but my mind is just a teensy tiny bit preoccupied...if you know what I mean......

I have 3 announcements to make before I forget.

# 1 - Happy Birthday to you Mr.ARkin. (I'd say that in Jewish, but unfortunately I have forgotten it..:'( )
# 2 - Interim Reports! .....Lets just leave it at, that my parents weren't happy nor dissapointed. (Personally they should be happy considering the transition to high school, and more importantly IB  - all conversations come back to the whole 'Ib' concept - )
# 3 - Upcoming Test - don't think I'm weird but I am very happy that we are having another test. My computer mark was the lowest out of all my marks .

*audience giving knowing and dissapointed looks*
*the reason behind dissapointed looks finally sinking in* Hey...wha-...no way..if you're thinking that I got like a 15% or something like that, YOU ARE WRONG! I recognize that look when I see it.

When I say that my computer mark was the lowest, I didn't think I was applying that I got a 50% or less.

What would you thin of my computer mark if I said that all my other marks were 100's. (An impossible feat but still......)

Ahaha! I thought so, so zip it! *attitude*

Anyhow, Mr.Arkin has generously given us the rest of the week to finish up all our assignments (any of the ones we haven't completed from before as well), and to brush up on our concepts.

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

HTML Revisted!

As you readers may know by reading my blog (if you do), is that over the weekend Mr.Arkin gave us a printer cmparison assignment to complete. We were to compare two or more printers of different types and then display our finding in a table using an HTML page.

Well, I must comment that Mr.Arkin marks extremely quick. I mean, within a one to one and a half day period, Mr.Arkin marked all of our printer comparison assignments. And by all, I mean all three classes which total up to approximately 60 kids.

Mr. Arkin posted up our marks today and I have to say, I did amazingly good.

Anyways, on to more iportant topics. In class today, Mr.Arkin went over a few HTML basics again. For example, (perhaps the most important lesson of the day), NEVER USE SPACES WHEN NAMING A FILE OR A DIRECTORY. >3

Haha! We also took a many notes on very crucial things to remember.

The rest of the period was spent working on repitition assignment number 12, which by the way wasn't as challenging as some people said it to be.

*by the way I am extremely grumpy today for reasons best left unmentioned*

Signing off,
:'( Natasha Jan

Da Da Da Daaan "I've Got My Powers Back! " Tra la laaaaaa!

You readers are probably thinking what does she mean by she has her powers back?!?
*audience nodding head*

Ha ha! I gotcha there, didn't I? In reality though,  I actually did get my powers back - my Turing powers.
* stunned disgusted silence - suddenly audience starts to disperse*
Hey, wait! Where are you guys going? I promise it'll be a worthwhile story for all you reporters out there. Anyone?

Fine, be like that! See if I care. Hmmppphh! I'll just pour out my woes to my good ol' computer, (oops, I mean Mr.Arkin's computer.)

Anyways, I'll just continue!

It may just be a stroke of luck, but I think I've got my powers back. You still don't get it? ok, I'll explain. I whizzed through all the character graphics, input, output and selection assignemnts. But when we started repitition, that's when I got stuck. I mean, 2 hours per question? That's insane! That was me!

Now though, I think that I'm whizzing through all the assignments again. I know, I'm good!

* audience: Uh, no your not! *

Ha, I see you decided to come back. I know; you guys just couldn't get enough of me!

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Moving on.

Today was a good work period for us. We were able to get a huge head start on our homework. I, being the good time-manager that I am (*cough* *cough*), was able to finish my Turing homewor (repitition 9-11) in class with about 25 minutes to spare.

I used the rest of the time to work on my blog. (FYI, everything types above the dotted line, I typed in class :P)

All in all, ICS was very productive today.

Yours until the ink flows (umm....scratch that)

Yours until the computer keys work, (that's better)
Natasha Jain

Hey ho, Away we go ....

Guess what readers? I get to research printers. *stunned sort of a silence*

Ok then! That obviously didn't have the effect that I expected from you guys but whatever; you guys are too slow. *thinking to herself* Or maybe I just didn't explain properly.

Nevertheless, I will take the great pains and time to explain to you WHY I must research printers.

*telling a story voice *
It all started back in class. We were allowed to use the period to work on our repitition assignments, specifically question 8 modified. Suddenly, we were called to he desks to take a note. We took a few notes on IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and some features on Turing. We learned that the computer has a great desk checking option. Clicking on the Debugger menu, checking the "Trace Execution" button and then clicking run (or step) should do the trick. The computer literally 'steps' inside the program to desk-check. It is really helpful. *putting scary voice on * Then came the horror. Our homework for the weekend was to create an HTML page that compares 2 or more printers based on our needs. Our story ends here! *matter of fact tone*

OH NO! When I heard that I thought to myself, 'there goes my weekend'. Even though it was already first period, I had a load of homewrok already. On top of that, I have a geography poster/presentation due on Monday. Oh well, it's IB. I can deal with it....I think (slightly panicky and hysterical voice).

Yours truly,
Crushed under the load, Natasha Jain

Checking, Checking and Re-checking

The title of this blog should probably explain to you what we did in computer sceince class. WE CHECKED! Ok, that was extremely vague I'll admit. To put what we did in better words, we analyzed and desk-'checked' (Ha ha) our peers repitition # 6 assignment. This basically took up half the period.

I must say that desk-checking is a very good talent to possess. It is very benificial in order to find out where we went wrong in the program. At least I think so!

The other part of the program was designated to corrected our assignment and getting started on our other assignments. Overall, a very melancholy day. *Note to self: start inserting more humour back into blog*
Ha ha!

Over and out,
Natasha

Back to Work!

I know, I know, my title isn't exactly the best and what you readers want to read but still.... it is the truth. Is is possible for your day to be very slow and relaxing but when you go home, you are loaded with work? Well that's exactly how ICS went today. Saying that I have a lot of homework from computers would be an exaggeration, but I still had my fair share. I just have to say that I currently in the process of sinking.....the reason; my homework.

Anyhow, we took a couple of notes and Mr. Arkin introduced us to the new procedures and functions abs, getch, play, whatcol and whatrow. You may think that I'm really weird, but my favourite keyword is 'play'. Why? Because when used appropriately, you can play music on Turing. Cool eh?

Anyways, Mr. Arkin gave us our homework early: Selection assignments 3-5 and our daily blog. In abour 3-4 sentences I will be 3/4 done my computer homework. I have to say that tracing the program can now be considered a great gift in my opinion. When using loop statements, you must be careful of where you place your statements. I got a bit confused, but a little (lot) help from Ada, I was able to get backon track.

Overall, today was quite a day!

Signing off,
Natasha Jain

P.S I find it very weird/cool that Turing has a music option. :P

DO NOT REPEAT, I REPEAT, DO NOT REPEAT!

Ha, Ha! Just a bit of ill humour there from me. Repitition. Our new topic for Friday. Some people in our class were already ahead and were done all the repitition assignments before the rest of the class even understood the concept. Some important keywords we learned in class were exit, loop and when. The exit and when keyowrds are extremely important in the program. Together they instruct the program when tom stop/exit. For example:

exit when -variable- [binary operator] - variable/constant -

The loop keyword instructs the computer to continue executing the program over and over again [or until the exit statement is true].
I think that class on Friday was extremely productive; I grasped alot about repitition and learned that the program executes the statements in "sequence". Mr. Arkin showed us the concept of repitition on his program of repitition. Our homework for the weekend was ou daily blog posting, repitition assignments 1 and 2, modification of assignment 2 [the user should specify when they should start and stop],  and a modification of a program Mr. Arkin showed us in class. Overall, compared to some other topics that we have covered, I find repitition quite easy and simple.

Yours until the ice melts,
Natasha Jain

Rememberance Day

As we all know, today was remeberance day. Today we remebered all the soldiers who fought for us in World War 1 and World War 2. The assembly that we had really moved me. It was very well planned out and got the message across to the student body.

Anyways, on to ICs today. Let's just say that after I got home, my neighbourhood was practiclly drowning in a tsunami ..... courtesy of my tears. We got back our tests today, (I know, Mr.ARkin marks tres fast), and I didn't do so well. I managed to pass, but I know I could hav done better. It turns out that I stidied for all of the wrong things. In class, we reviewed the test with a partner and then Mr.Arkin took it up with us as a class. Our homework today was to review the mean mark program, write our blog and sign our tests.

To dejected to talk,
Natash Jain

P.S This is going to sound really weird coming from me, but I am actually hoping for more tests, (mainly to average out my mark).

MISSION: Test OUTCOME : Uh...Do I really have to anwer that?

By my blog title, you are probably infering that I did horribly on the test. That may be true ... or not. :S
I'll cut to the chase. I personally think that I did quite well. There were a question or two that me and my friends *cough* Andres *cough* Grace had an animated discussion about. Right now, I am leaving everything up to fate (I learned that from a  movie :D). Whats done is done, and I can't change that!

The test in general was quite easy if you studied. I'm going to make this extremely short because I am exhausted (not from studying late, but becuase I haven't been able to sleep well).

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

(To Beethoven's Symphony No. 9) Da Da Da Daaan "THE TEST"

*muttering to self* Put is the short form of output, get is a keyword, a decared constant has can't be changed once initialied, IDE is integrated development environment, lowercase A in ASCII/binary code is 97, upp--
Ohh! I didn't see you there.

I was just studying for our programming test that is tomorrow.
*my brother in a matter of fact voice* No, she isn't studying she is cramming.
 *me, slightly panicky* NO! I wasn't cramming! *in guilty kid voice* Ok, maybe I was...sort of....a little. Oops!

Ok guys jokes apart, I personally think that I really time managed. I started studyng and flipping through our notes when we first got the message from Mr.Arkin.

In class today, Mr.Arkin introduced to us counters, accumulators and touched base on the initialiation section. Additionally, at the beginning of class we had a huge and very informative and helpful question and answer period.

I'm going to sign of and continue with my test preperation. Actually make that two tests - geo AND programming. (My geo test is actually next Wednesday, but why not study earlier.)

Your's until my head melts(or explodes, whatever happens first *noncommital shrug*)
 Natasha Jain :D

* singing * It is Monday, going on Tuesday!

Hey everyone! As you can tell, I am very cheerful today! Class today was very relaxing and I think that I had a very good weekend. It was extremely refreshing!
In class today all the groups presented their posters of the code analysis to the class. It is amazing how much everyone came up! There were al lot of attributed and guidelines in such a simple program.


The second part of the period was devoted to analyzing a peer's program. We were to analyze our peer's program and then find a few errors. Then we were then to go fix the mistakes in our program.

Overall, a very mellow day. Since Ia m done early I am writing this blog and then will study a bit for my test by analyzing some of my other programs.

Sincerely,
Natasha Jain

Happy Diwali!

First of all before I get tell you about ICS today, I am going to take the time (and space) to say Happy Diwali to everyone. I celebrate Diwali and it is a very religious festival that my family and I look forward to every year.

Enough about me. Today in ICS we continued to analyze the code Mr.Arkin gave us yesterday. My groups paper is a little messy and unorganized...but hey, at least all the information is there!

Anyhow, our only homework for the week was to write our blog.

Cheers,
Natasha Jain

Desk Checking Dilemma

You guys must think that I sound like a heck of a downer right now. But when your day hasn't been going to well and your tired, you begin having negative thoughts about everything.

On to more important topics of interest...computer science. When we got to class today, Mr.Arkin instructed to get into groups 4. Our task individually was to desk check a model answer of selection assignmetn # 6, and then as a group create a poster that states the programming guidelines, the format, the amount of keywords used etc.

I think that it was a nice change and a new way of learning.
Our homework today was to chose 3 of our best and most sophisticated programs and desk check along with writing our daily.
Overall, a it was a good change that I enjoyed.

Tune in for more tomorrow.
Natasha Jain

*Yawn* Take You-*Yawn* -r Kids to *Yawn* Work Day!

I don't think that *yawn* I will be *yawn able to *yawn * get through this entry *yawn* without yawning every second. I am exhausted right now!
*5 minutes later*
Whew! That was so much more better. A cup of coffee really does the trick.
Anyhow, today topic of interest.....Take Your Kids to Work Day.
By the way, brace yourselves; this entry is going to be huge (reflection of my excitement.)
Today I went with my dad to his place of work- TD Bank.  He is a lead architect. I woke up at regular time and was there by 8:30. I learned so many cool and interesting things about his building.  His building (close to STC), is called SOC (Scarborough Operating Centre), is the heart of TD. It is only 1 of 2. It is so important that the building isn't even labelled - that is for the safety of the data.
When I got there and went to my dad's area, I got to see where he is at work and what people he associates with. Then at 9:00 on the dot, my dad dropped me off at the conference room. TD was offering a half-day workshop for grade 9 students. There were about 12 kids seated around the oval table. I got a name tag and then we started with an icebreaker which covered our names, who our host was, our school, our hobbies, what we want to be when we grow up and if we have any pets. It was very interesting to see all the multicultural people and faces.
We then started on our tour. I actually felt very special because we were granted special permission to see places that even our parents weren't allowed to see. :)
Today was basiclly like computer studies. We saw many hardware, software and CPU's. There were also many big machines, devices and wires. Each hardware box alone costs about 5 million dollars. Wow, isn't that a lot. We learned that if someone in Vancouver makes a transaction, the information from their card to a branch in downtown and then gets updated at SOC.All of this happens in anout a second.

We then came back to the conference room for snacks and trivia game of Jeopardy. I wasn't so good at it, but learned a lot about TD and the value that education holds in our world. We also learned public speaking, writing resumes and interview tips. After that, we resumed our tour and this time explored and saw different people at their jobs. That was the last part of the tour, after which we went back and got certificates, lunch vouchers and gifts.
I personally thought that the gifts were very cool - we got a TD gym bag filled with dollar shaped pencils, mints, chocolates, pretty little stickies, stainless steel water bottles, pens, highlighter and more cool and nifty things.
This ended at about 12:00. After a good lunch of salad and cold macaroni, my dad and I went to downtown for a meeting. When we got their, it turned out that there was a miscommunication and the meeting was scheduled for an hour later. tTo kill time, we roamed around the underground shops -it was an underground mall. When the meeting started, my joy quickly faded away. They were all talking about things I didn't understand and I was on the verge of sleeping. When the meeting was finally finished at 4:00, my dad and me rushed back home, but unfortunately we were caught in traffic.
Now I really understand the importance of education and what my dad does to make money for my family. This has also given me some thought to what I would like to do when I grow up.
Overall, I don't think that I have ever felt this tired before in my life.
I hope that you all learned something today as well.
Cheers,
Natasha Jain
P.S A useless fact: The architect who designed the Eaton Centre was the same who designed my dad's build. Cool eh?
P.P.S I sincerely hope I didn't bore you with my 10 page essay.

Blow out the Candles George Boole!

* Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to George Boole, Happy Birthday to you. How old are you now? How old are you now? How old are you now? Hoooow ooold aaare yooouuu nooooowww? *
Oops! I guess I can't ask George Boole that question considering that he has been dead for almost 150 years.
Just a bit of background information on George Boole : He was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is noted and remembered for his ideas on boolean algebra. In fact, we even have a datatype named after him : boolean. Isn't that amzing? Considering that he has been dead for a long time, it is amazing how his works of computer and algebra are still recognized.

Anyways, getting passed the happy mood, lets focus more on class today. Today we went over case statements. This was connected to our homeowrk yesterday which was to read "Selection 2". We learned that when you have more than 3 or 4 alternatives, it is easier, cleaner and more efficient to case statements.

We took good notes on that and got to use an ATM program. It was very interesting and gave us a some thought to how machines run in our daily life.
Our task for the period was to alter and work on the ATM program, while our homework was to guard it against negative values.
Anyways, I am going to end this now, because I need my beauty sleep.
* skeptical look from audience *
Ok..I lied. My dad goes to work a little early, so I am going to sleep early to get enough rest.
Stay tuned for more readers!
Natasha Jain

Mistakes, Mistakes and more Mistakes!

You must think that I sound like such a downer right?
But truth be told, I actually am not.
I am simply stating the truth....well, partially at least.
You see, for homework we were to complete all of our selection assignments - from # 1 all the way to 13. I was fine until I came up to the last question. That was when I was crying tears of frustration, my ears were red, my mind was expereincing a brain freeze and.... *audience : WE GET IT! *
All right, all right, what good is a blog entry without exaggeration and drama.
Anyways, getting back to the point, I managed to complete it, with a lot of difficulty if I might add, but today in computer guess what happened? It was wrong. I have to say though, I wasn't too surprised. I mean, it was expected. Luckily, Ada, Grace and Andres were a big help. We had an animated discussion and tryed to figure out the answer to the question. Thankfully, I am on the right track now...I think. With luck, I should be able to fix question 13 today.

Next, in class today Mr.Arkin clarifed any questions that we had about the homework which a huge help to many of us. :)

The next task at hand was to get a small group of 2 -4 people and compare all of our selection programs. We were to get the best parts in each of the programs to come up with the neatest, short, and best program. It was a a cinch; exept the horrible #13.
I think that we should give it an award - Topsy Turvy Question of the Year. Whadya think?

Anyhow, I am now going to feast on my mound of candy!
Natasha
P.S By the way guys, Happy Late Halloween.

Sweep, Sweep, Sweep Away!

Once again, all you readers don't know what I am talking about. Am I right?
*nods all around the room*
Ha, I thought so!
Being the nice person I am, I will indefinetely clear up the confusion.
I am actually talking about, clearing up out HTML, fixing them, validating them, and then uploading them live.
Mr. Arkin wasn't here on Friday and had previously told us that Friday would be designated to this task. He wants everything perfect and validated on our website. Well, that wasn't so hard for me, considering that most if not all of my pages were validated. I checked again and only one of my pages had mistakes. After that, I continued to work on my selection assignments.
Overall, a very relaxing and mellow Friday.
Signing out,
Natasha Jain

MISSION: Parent - Teacher Interviews OUTCOME: Success!

Hey guys! This isn't really related to computers but since I tell you guys everything, I thought why not share what happened tonight at interviews.
So, today I had interviews with my geography teacher and art teacher. Both of them said that I was doing very good in their classes and was beginning to learn time management. I gues IB really teaches you time management. :) Being the angel I am, my parents were pleased with my progress.

Now, next on the agenda..... Computer Studies!
Today was extremely relaxed and I enjoyed myself. Since more than half of our class was afraid on a science trip to Rouge Valley (Aahh! What a relief!), we spent today as an independent work period. Mr. Arkin was available for assistance! Needless to say, he was a big help and answered my idiotic questions! Thank you for that, Mr. Arkin!

By the way, We also got back our Turing quizes today. I actually did better than I thought. The mark I got is extremely classified and will only be shown to the FBI. (That to on special request) *sugary sweet smile*

Some people in our class were ahead, and went on to the next set of assignments. There were a dew concepts that they didn't understand, so Mr. Arkin gave us a little special lesson on "loops". I have the gist, but I am still not perfectly clear about the concepts. Oh well, I have time to learn it. Overall, today was a very enjoyable day. If I were to rate today from 1 to 10 (10 being the best ang 1 being the worst), I would say that today was somewhere between an 8.5 and 9.25.
I know, I am very precise!

I hear chocolate muffins calling my name.
I must go.
Cheers,
Natasha Jain

On Your Marks...Get Set...QUIZ!

Haha! Fooled you there for a minute didn't I? I know, I would have been fooled to if I were in your place. Anyhow, my words (of wisdom) are true. We did indeed have a quiz today. As soon as we entered, Mr. Arkin started by asking us if we had any questions about the selections questions and concepts. Since none of had any questions he surprised us by telling us that we were having a pop quiz. Well.....I suppose it wasn't so unexpected. Some people from the other class (who had already had their test) let it slip yesterday that we would be having a quiz. I guess Mr.Arkin found out which is why we didn't get the test yesterday.
I also knew that we would be getting a quiz sometime soon, so I was prepared......sort of.

I think that I did quite good on the test, but only time (and fate) can tell.

Anyways, today Mr. Arkin took up selection questions 1 - 3 with us brushed over number 5. He also introduced to us a new keyword. Presenting to you the New Keyword - elsif
It is used for more than 2 options.

We also made charts today based on the binary operators.
In conclusion, today was a very constructive day and I learned loads.

Signing off for today,
Natasha Jain

Red, Green, Pink, Yellow, Purple ......... BLUE

When I say blue, I am describing two things; my mood and a selection assignment I completed today. I am feeling very emotional (not emo; I am NOT cutting myself) and moody. I don't know why! So, my point is, don't be surprised if you find no sarcasm in my short entry.

Anyhow, turning to class, today Mr. Arkin taught us "selection." Okay, I know that was very vague description of what we learned ... so I will be generous and eleaborate. We took many notes today; most, if not all were sample programs that Mr.Arkin used to teach us the concepts. It is all very clear to me now. If you recall, in my entry yesterday I wrote that I was going to start the selection assignments. Well, I never actually got around to that ! *sheepish grin* You see, there were some parts of the program that wasn't working for me. As a matter of fact, I actually lost quite a fw strands (more like chunks) of hair. It was actually just me pulling my hair out from all the frustration. Uuurgghh! (The side effects still remain.)

We started the lesson by Mr. Arkin asking us if we had a lot of questions. Since there weren't many question, we were able to move on to the lesson about selection. (Which I explained in the first paragrah. Sorry, everything is out of order - it is called being frazzled! ) To practice our newly accquired skills (just kidding) Mr. Arkin assigned us Selection questions 1 and 2. After the lesson, they were quite simple and straightforward which is how I was able to complete up until question 4.

Our homework is quite basic. Finishing selection questions 1 and 2. Check. And our blog. Amost Check.
Anyways, I am going to go drown my sorrows in ice cream. (Ok, I lied, I don't have any sorrows!)

Stay tuned,
Natasha

P.S I guess I used a bit of sarcasm in my blog.
P.P.S It wasn't exactly short either.

Managing 4 at a time!

audience reaction *HUH? Managing 4 what? 4 apples? 4 computers? 4 continents? *
Ok, the last one is kind of impossible! Four continents; I may not be a fortune teller, but I know enough to say that I will never be able to manage 4 continents at once.

However what I can do, is managing 4 papers at a time.
*audience with perplexed looks on their faces*
You see, today in class we used a very simple and easy way of learning. We had one page to write down some basic and general notes. The other threee pages we used to execute or trace the program. It was very interesting and benifitted me a great deal. One page was titles "Code", the other "Memory(RAM)" while the last one was "Run Window." We imitated or acted as the computer for a day. Mr. Arkin wrote a sample program, from which we worked on. We picked apart the code one line by one line. On our memory page, we put the data that we stored under the variable. We saw where the data was stored and how it was used in the program when needed. On the code page, we wrote the sample program, while on the run window page, we wrote down what we would see if we actually ran the program. It was a good learning experience.

We also learned two new keywords today: true and false. It's true, I'm not lying. Ok that was cheesy....incorporating the keyword into a sentence. They come under the datatype called boolean, named after the famous Dr. George Boole. I suppose it took a lot of time, hard-work and effort for him to be famous. We also learned about arithmetic and relational operators. Our homework today is to, as usual, complete our daily blog (which I am doing like a responsible person), and make two programs that incorporate arithmetic and relational operators. I am also going to start a few of my selection questions to get over with them (not in a bad way of course!)

Overall, today was a very good day, although I felt blue and melancholy all day long, and I learned a lot.
Cheers,
Natasha Jain

Divisor, Divedend, Quotient? Huh? !

Hey y'all it is a Friday and so far my day has been great....until now...when math comes into the picture. I'll admit I'm not Super Math Woman, but you have to give me some credit for trying. *angry huff and storms off*
10 seconds later
*okay I'm back; I couldn't stay away - I love telling you guys what I do in class*
Anyhow, class today was very slow and relaxing; it was basically a review and work period. We all got to work according to how much we understand. The people who didn't understand were given the choice or getting extra help which Mr. Arkin gratefully provided. Others who were a bit ahead of the class and understood programming better were able to continue working on the rest of their Input assignments. Since many of us were already finished the Imput assignments, we were granted the permission to start the Selection assignments - which I can tell you are a lot harder than the input assignments. Anyhow, I'm going to sign off now because I am trying to figure out how to do question number 1, which by the way is making me pull my hair out.

Have a great weekend  everyone,
Natasha

Suicide Really isn't an Option in my Case!

You have no clue what I'm talking about right? *audience nods their head* I knew it, ... but that's all right, I (being a good blogger) will tell you. *thunbs up and grin on her face* Actually, during computer science I was seriously considering about suicide, you know; and I have an extremely good reason for it as well. You see, I have finished all 10 of my input assignments but after class today, I learned that I hadn't done it correctly. *grins quickly fades away* I know, what a bummer. I felt very stupid in class today! Oh well, at least I can fix my mistakes!

Anyways, in class today we took up assignments number one to four (I am already following the rule about putting numbers less than 10 in words; see how obedient I am - just kidding) as a class. I actually beniffited a lot from the lesson today that I haven't applied to my work before. For example; aligning the colon, making a variable for practically everything (don't worry Mr. Arkin, I have finally gotten over it *sniff sniff*), and also breaking down the equation into smaller parts that are morre conveniet. After thinking it through, I think that Mr. Arkins way was easier to comprehend. It is also benificial to create variables because if by chance you value changes, you won't have to go through the entire program to find it. You can just change the variable in the declaration section. That is very cool, I have to admit. And to think I wasted about 1 1/2 hours on question number 4. *anger bubbling inside me*

Our homework for today to continue working on our input assignments and write in our daily blog. I am going to fix my assignments since they are not perfect. I am going to sign off now because I have a ballad due tomorow for English! *huge smile* Here is an example of a ballad for computer science.... (I know..2 in 1 - English and computers)

"What is part of computer science?", asked the youth.
"HTML, CSS, programming and more",
replied the old man with a missing tooth
"With computers and Mr. Arkin, you will find so much in store!"

Ok, I'll admit that was very bad, but it is proof that I need time to go work on my ballad. By the way, that was only the first verse out of a total of eight. Bye for now and remembe to check my blog tomorrow.
(I'm advertising!)
Natasha

??? out of 50.

The question mark obviously stands for my mark which we by the way got today. I wasn't exactly pleased with my mark but it wasn't so low and down there as well. Compared to the statistics Mr. Arkin told us, I am quite happy with my mark. The range between the highest and lowest mark was huge. It was crazy, but I suppose I fall into the same category. You probably have no idea what I mean right now....I'll elaborate. Looking back at the marking scheme and my own assignment, I am truly dissapointed in my reading skills(selective, by the way) and the way I handled this assigment. I guess I have a gift, NOT, to turn simple things way more complicated. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha. Oh well! What's done is done. The onlt thing that I can do now is learn for my mistakes and make sure I don't repeat them the next time.

Anyhow, getting back to the topic of class. Before I start, I must say that I was sweating beyond belief in class today. This is due to the fact that everyone was excited and milling around and asking what everyone else got. You know the science right......energy equals heat! Or maybe it was just cold, but I highly doubt it. Anyways, before I came into computer science I heard from some of my friends that we would be getting back our marks today. That was something to look forward to and be scared of. I actually didn't think too much about it until the time I entered the computer room. When I checked my mark, (which I am not discolsing in public; I mean if your birth date and address in too personal, marks should count in the same category right?) I admit I was dissapointed. After all that hard work, it was a killer. Anyways, I wasn't too fazed by my mark and after about 10 minutes or so of oggling at the site, I went to work on my tenth and last input assignment, which by the way I am getting really, really, really good at. I guess spending half your Saturday studying over input and output really helped my case. I know when I need a boost, guys! Anyways, when we had about 40 minutes of class left Mr. Arkin reviewed all the comments that he put on our pdf file. Anyways, now I now the mistakesI made and can work on them the next time that I do something like this.
Bye guys!
Natasha Jain
P.S I am feeling quite melancholy right now!

Input, Output or Both??

You probably are confused by my title. I am actually referring to our Input assignments which require both imput and output. I know eh? Cool!
Class today was fun and interesting. Ok, I may be a little biased based on the fact that I actually understand what we are doing for once. Today we started off by taking up our homework from the day before in groups of four...in my sorry case; three. :P We then compared our work and finally settled down to attempt question number 4 of the Input Assignments. I had already finished that question for homework which is why I was able to contribute to my group greatly. All of the groups then put their answers up on the board which is where we compared them to see which programs were correct. After this little activity, we were then allowed to go off to the computers to get our work done. Overall, a very mellow and slow period.
Signing off
Captain Natasha
P.S I still haven't started my programming glossary. Oops! I'm gonna' go start on that right now. *nervous laugh*

Intense Q&A

Today in class we had an intense question and answer period with Mr. Arkin.
Today's class was really fun as well. I enjoyed myself....partially because I actually understood what we were doing for a change.
Anyways, we were taught the input system today.
We learned the equation and how where and in what file the information is stored.
Inputing the information in the run window will display the results. I never knew that the computer was so smart. It's like the computer has a brain. Oops!
I guess the CPU is the brain of the computer. My bad!
Anyhow, we got a few more terms, one actually - assignment operator, to add to our programming glossary which by the way is getting huge.
Anyways, I am going to cut this short because I am now exactly 7 minuted late for my show.
Ciao.
Natasha

Give it Up For the Best of Them All!

That would be me.... Natasha Jain. Okay, fine I fibbed. I may not be the best, but I am getting there. Before I share what we did in class on Friday, I have to share something else. I HAVE FINALLY LEARNED TO TIME MANAGE!!!! *round of applause* Ok, stop looking at the screen like that; it is a big deal to me. HARUMPHH! *nose upturned in the air* I think that I finally learned my lesson when I procrastinated on my super power autobiography and English project on "Great Expectations." That was the last straw for me...not to mention my parents who were red in the face for a week.
HAHA!
Ok, moving on. Next on the agenda.... what we did on Friday. Gosh, where 'o' where do I start! Just kidding, I'll cut the act. Well, Friday was quite eventful and fast-paced. We covered a lot. When we took up our homework, Mr. Arkin taught us a faster and shorter way of creating a border using the asterisk symbol. Most of us had about 25-30 lines of close to that. Compared to Mr. Arkin's way of about 10 lines, man, I felt like an idiot. I think I have to start working on expanding my horizons. That is a definite must. On Friday, we also learned a cool way to get the definition andmore information on keywords. Pressing F9 does the trick! On top of that we took many notes along with adding numerous more terms to our programming glossary, which I regret saying I haven't started yet. I know, I know! Curse ye! Ok, that was half Shakespeare just for the record.
If you are Mr. Arkin, you will be pleased to learn that yes, I have learned the importance of working from our development and home directories and not our USB keys. If you are not Mr.Arkin, this sentence was just useless blabbering to you.
For homework, our job was to review documentation template, operators and programming guidelines. Aside from that, I have given myself another off the record job of organizing my binder, re-writing my messy notes, getting my papers inorder and using my binder dividers if neccessary.
Anyhow, I am giving you an invitation now; you are all invited to my ceromony when I recieved Bect Programmer of the Year Award.
Bye.
Natasha Jain (Future) Programmer of the Year signing off.
P.S If you decide to bring a gift for my accomplishment, I take cash and cash only.

Ready.. Set... Hike!

Today, we went to Niagara Falls as partof our Geography trip Mr. Van Bemmel and Ms. Chan's class. Due to this, I unfortunately miss my classes including computer science.
That's the bad part. The good part is that I really enjoyed the trip, even though I slipped quite a few times, got soaked, and was shivering like there was no tomorrow. It was a great learning expereince. And... since I had to wake up a 5: 30 in the morning, I'm going to go cath up un my sleep!

Cheers,
Natasha

RUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUN!

Not literally! Stay in your chairs, don't fly off into space. Yeeessh! Sorry, I had to give the warning. I've had people who actually run off in no particular direction when I tell then to RUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUN! Ok! You caught me! I'm trying to fill up space.

Anyways getting back to the real reason I must write this blog, class, and in specific, computer programming. Oh and by the way, before I lauch into my 10-page essay, I just have to inform you that I will be away at Niagara Falls tomorrow and therefore be missing computers :( I know, it's a bummer. Just when I was started to get fond of my computer friend..........

In class, we took down some notes and definitions related to computer programming. As I mentioned yesterday, we are supposed to create anothe glossary for our programming unit. I keep on adding to it. :D
I'm so cool like that. I know! Lets take a minute to give me a standing ovation!
Oh! I have som work for you readers. Don't worry, it only involves some basic grade 1 math. COUNTING!!!!
How many letters are in the words concatenation operator?
Exactly 21 letters!
This word is huge is it not??!??
Anyhow, we learned the meaning of this word alsong with many others. We also went over how to put comment in Turing and the equivalents of it in HTML and CSS. We learned what specific characters like a comma, plus sign, double quote etc. mean. We also learned about ouput field-width. By the way I apologize to Mr.Arkin for biting his head and bombarding him with questions all period. Oops! *nervous laugh*
Anyhow, I find computer programming highly interesting and fun.
Our homework was to add the word sequence to our glossary, read over the subprograms section and go finish the character graphics section.
Anyways, I am now going to go waste my time!
Bye guys!

Chug-a-chuga Chug-a-chuga Choo Choo! Full Steam Ahead!

Hey guys? What's poppin'?
The long weekend was very relaxing and I had a good time catching up my sleep. I was extremely cranky in the morning and that's saying something becuase 9 times out of 10, I'm not. Well, I guess today was the 1 out of 10. Anyhow, full steam ahead today in computers. We launched right into our programming leassons. I have to say though, I really learned loads today. We took some notes related on our programming unit and also noted down some vocabulary for our new programming glossary. Cool eh??!!??

So, I never knew that there were so many ways to post our information through computer programming. It is so cool. Mr.Arkin must have showed us at least 10 today. We used some basic examples to work with and explored a lot of functions and different features that we can use while programming. Our homework today is to create four mini assignment for homewrok. It seems like a lot but actually isn't. The only problem......I can't manage to download Turing into my computer. I wonder why?? I'm not to clear on the concept of computer programming yet. I am not sure what exactly we do when we program, but I figure I'll learn soon enough.  I personally also have a ton of homework today. Even an elepahnt could break under the pressure........not that I'm comparing of course.. but still. Anyways, this entry is super-short. I promise I'll make up for it tomorrow.
Cheers,
Nat

MISSION: PARTY OUTCOME: SUCCESSFUL

Hey y'all!
Party today equals mission succesful!
Today I had a blast in computer science class. No work! (Not that I don't like computer, I DO). But still; a change and no work for a day was cool.
Boy 'o' boy do people bring a lot of food. We had an aoortment of food and had a great time in general going on the computer and socializing. There were organics chips and salsa, a variety of chips, candy, timbits, cookies, pretzels. Someone even thought to balance out and bring cantaloupe bals and pineapple slices! Thanks to Carol today, I discovered a new band today - U-Kiss. THANKS KAYROLL!!! :D
(I love Caps lock, btw)
Anyhow, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there and have a great long weekend!
Cheers,
Natasha Jain

All hail Natasha Jain, winner (or the "about to be" winner) of the 2010 Turing award. That's right! I have my sights set high. I plan to win the the Turing Award. Oh and by the way, you guys do know that the Turing award was named after Allen Turing; *everyone in a chorus*the famous British mathmetician and computer whiz. Sorry about that. Mr.Arkin must have said that about 10 times in computer science class today. It is a very contagious sentence and kind of caught on if you know what I mean (which I dearly hope that you do). :D Well..... I have to confess thatI am not an expert at computer programming. I mean, we just started the unit today. But, and I mean this, I plan to become the best computer programmer that the world has ever seen (after Allen Turing of course). I'm already in Natasha's Computer World thinking about Natasha's Computer Enterprise and having an award named after me: Natasha's Computer Award. *ahem* Oh...right! sorry about that. I got lost in my own little world AGAIN! Gotta stop doin' that!
Anyways, something that I HAVE accomplished is passing exactly a month of computer science and boy was it tough. Mr.Arkin has kindly decided to throw us a partyy to reward us for all of our efforts. THANK YOU MR. ARKIN! I have already posted on the wiki that I will be bringing assorted cookies. I all set to go for the party tomorrw which I by the way can't wait for.
Anyhow, class today was very interesting. We started a new unit today - webpage and program development! We made a very intricate flow chart that descibes both webpage and program development. We also worked on Turing. It is a software that has text editor, compiler and executor. WOW! I know - 3 in 1. But that's sort of the point. It's supposed to make work easier, faster and more efficient. We went over some new vocabulary related to this unit a well. The words are keyword, character string, arithmetic expression and delimeters. Anyways our work is simple; we have to write our daily blog(as usual), read over the programming section on http://www.touque.ca/EC/programming/index.html , download Turing and fix up our autopbiography and glossaries if we need to.
Cheers! (I read that in a book and thought that it would be cool to add over here)
Natasha Jain

0110 0010 0110 1001 0110 1110 0110 0001 0111 0010 0111 1001 0110 0101 0111 1000 0111 0001 0110 0101 0111 0010 0111 0100 0010 0001

Did you manage to decode that at all or no?
Anyways, if you didn't, I'll tell you. It says Binary Expert!
I'm not lying, I honestly am one! No lies! Cross my heart and hope to die.
Well...
Ok maybe I am destined for death!
Today was really interesting! I learned to write with numbers. ^_^ Shocked! It is true! Binary coding is way coooooooool! I can't belive that I was writing with letters all this time when I could have used numbers instead. I know, I am really freaky right! That's just how I am! :D
In class today we went over the binary code and took few notes on ASCII Redux! Once again I wonder if time has wings??? *deep in thought*
Ok! I have come at the conclusion; YES! Time does have wings.
Otherwise it wouldn't be able to fly! *nodding wisely*
The rest of our period was spent decoding Mr.Arkin's blog and typing our blog - which I unfortunately didn't have time to do in class. I have a confession to make! Today in class I was daydreaming about being the new Agent 007. Well...
Since this code(*hint* *hint*) is already taken by James Bond, I guess that I can settle with Agent 008; or something of that sort.
I am totally all for spting, codes and action! Just Kidding!
Anyways, I absolutely LOVE computer science class!
I've learned so much from it that I have never even thought about in my wildest dreams!
OMG! Would you look at the time! (It is actually 6:37p.m.) 
I have a huge english assignment on Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" due next Wednesday and I am not even remotely cose to being finished. Arrgghh!
So, this is Natasha Jain the awesome, the great, the excellent , the beautiful, the smart, the athletic, the perfect (OK! You get the point right......)signing off for today!
Stay tuned for more gossip on your neighbourhood celebrity Natasha Jain!
Ta-Ta y'all!

Up, Up and Away We Go...

By reading my title, how do you think that I feel right now? Happy, sad, mad, frustrated, joyful???
If you guessed victorious, then you are absolutely 100% correct.
Alrighty then; on to the second question.
Why on this evergreen Earth do I feel victorious?
Because we are almost done with our Basic Computer Glossary and are finally going to be finished the basic learning so that we can move on to more important things.
I will now stop with the Q&A because I know how annoying it can get.
Today's class was very interesting and mellow at the same. When we got to class, we started off by copying down the definition of one word and then we discussed the meaning of it. The interesting aspect of class revolved around binary digits. Bnary digits are charcters that the computer recognizes. Today we went over base 2 ASCII binary code. I learned that the computer only recognizes 0 and 1. The many combinations of 0 and 1 then symbolize all the different character codes that we have. It is quite intriguing and simple at the same. It is simple because the only digits that are part of this code are 0 and 1; and these two digits have the power to control practically all of the computer. I don't think that I have ever thought about where a website comes from, or how characters are made, and even how the computer boots up. It is about amazing how a computer works! Cool!:D
Anyways, our homework once again is to update and then upload our validated glossary. We are also to find pictures to represent our vocabulary. I am going to post you now blog, because of the massive amount of homework that has been piled on me today.
Sincerely,
Natasha Jain

Does time fly by or what?

Hello to you all once again on a beautiful Monday evening!
Ok, I think that I'm being over enthusiatic. I guess that it's time to switch to the blues.
Hello to you all on a dready cold Monday evening!
The truth hurts doesn't it.
I can'tbeleive we are already a month into school!
Anyways, I was wondering, does time really have wings?
Anyhow, getting back to the real reason that I must write my blog, class today was a bit mellow and slow. We worked on wrapping up our glossary. Unfortunately we didn't manage to finish it today, but we did add many new vocabulary tems to our list. I can't get over the fact that there are so many formal definitions and words that I have not been introduced to yet. It's quite a shame, don't you think. Our homework was quite simple. Update and upload our validated glossary page. Additionally, we had to find more pictures that went with our glossary. Quite easy! Today was actually kind of a double-feature or two-in-one kind of class. We had math and computer roled into one. We learned a lot about "to the power of" and bytes. We learned the various stages and types of bytes (megabyte, gigabyte, kilobyte, terabyte etc.)
I also learned that the calculator runs out of space when trying to give you big numbers. Just joking!
HaHa!
I'm going to keep this very short.
I'll update more tomorrow!
Natasha

No Muzik, no Studio 218!

Hey y'all!!
Unfortunately we didn't have studio 218 on friday because we were doing a lot of constructive work. I was really looking forward to it! Anyways, there will always be many more Fridays; it's not like we have a shortage for them! Hee Hee! Ok, I know that was not funny, so I'll stop.
So, in class on Friday, we basically worked on coming up with more definitions for our glossary list. It was very interesting to learn about vocabulary and what role they play in our computer and home softwares. Up till the beginning of September, I couldn't even differ a monitor from a computer and mouse, nut knoe not only can I diffrentiate them, I can also create a website with my eyes closed!!! Ok, so I exaggerated a lot, but you know what I mean, right?
Another helpful thing that Mr.Arkin taught us to do was to alter our validation options. Usually when we validate our HTML of CSS, it tells us the line in which the error is in. But, who has the time to count the lines??? Which is why, Mr.Arkin showed us which options to click in order to display the line number next to the content. Believe me, it was way easier than having to count each line, losing count, starting again and so on so forth. Whew! *wipes bead of sweat off forehead*
Anyways, our homework for the weekend was to add out glossary terms to the list, and validate and upload it live on the web. Thank the lord that their was no time limit for this assignment, otherwise it would have been 12 a.m. by the time, I'd have finished. I know that my study habits go totally against Mr.Arkin's important sleep instructions. Oops! *nervous grin* Gotta' add that to the list of things to work on! That now brings me up to 167 thngs to work on. Just kidding! We also had to find pictures of our glossary words which were 100 by 100.
The only question,which is very stupid, I had, was regarding the pixels size of the pictures which p_leung cleared up for me. Thank you again!
Bye for now!
Natasha

After a Week of Hard Work....

Hello everyone who is reading my blog.
As you may or may not have sensed from my first line, I am in a tremendously good mood. Why? Because I finally managed to finish uploading my super power autobiography and my glossary page. Doesn't it feel great when you have no pending work upon you? It feels great! :D My basic glossary page is well on it's way to completion. I have filled out all of the words that we went over in class today and have left the others blank.
So, getting back to the real reason that I must write my blog. Class. Unfortunately I missed more than half of the period due to the fact that I was having my pictures taken. (I think I looked great by the way! Blue is really my color, don't you think?) Anyhow, when I did get back to class (which was pretty empty I have to say), our class was working on getting the definitions for the basic glossary page we are to start today. We were given a handout with all of the important words on. Based on the words that Mr.Arkin gave us, we were first to come up with a definition with our group, and then if our name was called, share our definition with the class. Needless to say, my definition was perfect and flawless. Just kidding!
After we finished that, Mr.Arkin wrote the real definition on the board which we were to copy. Whew! I think I broke my hand copying all that down. Ha Ha Ha! I'm just fooling! The last 10 minutes of the period were designated to the people who were unable to upload their glossary and super power autobiography live. I finally learned why my files weren't posting online and now have fixed the error. By the way, note to all, I have a new record of mistakes for my html validation: wait for it..... 168 errors. If this keeps going on, I think that I could possibly make my own Natasha's World Book of Record with my own personal section labelling Top Scorer of Validation Errors. (*thunderous applause and cheering*)
Anyways, I finally managed to upload every single thing that I need and am going to proceed onto my basic glossary.
Watch for my next entry tomorrow!
Natasha Jain

Glossary Update!

Today was a very hectic day. In class today we were working on finishing up our glossary pages. We only got 2 days to complete it, by the way. We took a few notes in class and while looking over my list I realized that I was short a few words which I instantly jotted down. Time mangement is actually a great tip that get's me working fast and helps me prioritize. Of course, I wasn't always like this. I guess I learned my lesson from the super-power autobiography incident which I still haven't erased from my memory.I have to admit that we have come a long way since the first day of school. Unfortunately, Filezilla isn't working for me right now which is why I am going to post my gloassary page up tomorrow. I'm exhausted and famished(I skipped dinner)!
I'll sign off now.
Natasha

Vocab Woman!

For me, I guess the mistake I made with my super power autobiography is really helping me pick up speed in all of my classes. I am completing on my homework and tasks on time and I find that it is better for me that way. Just take my glossary page for example. I am finished my informal definitions, have a validated HTML and CSS and am on my way to get my formal dfinitions. It's amazing what fear of low marks can make a person do. Every time I receive a big project/assignment I think to myself that I will time manage and try not to procrastinate. Ironically, it's amazing how my actions also oppose my thoughts.
This time however I plan to finish everytime on time. Today in class we basically continued working on our computer glossary. More than 3/4 of the class was finished the informal definitions with validated pages. We spent time continuing to look for formal definitions, adding our CSS and other little things. I'm goining to sign off righ now because I am extremely tired.
Good-night!
Natasha
(P.s It's really 9:40)

The Dictionary of Computing!!!

Today was a very slow but interesting class as well. Would you believe that over time people have made a dictionary for computing? Well, okay, maybe not a dictionary, but definetely a glossary and special computer terms. That is exactly what we went over today. The glossary that we have been adding to throughout the three weeks was what we went over and reviewed. In class, we were to pair up in groups and come up with informal, or in "our words" definitions of our 28 glossary terms. At first all I could think of was, Oh great! Now how am I going to do this? But thankfully my group (Yu Chen, Laura, Monica, and Samiha), which was a little more than 2 people, was great and it wasn't so hard to come up with the definitions. I guess what they say is true, two heads are better than one. Cool eh?
So, our homework for today was quite simple and straight-forward. We were to create a skeleton (speaking of skeletons, Halloween is fast approaching) on a Dropbox account. Speaking of which, we are also supposed to create  a dropbox account. Dropbox is a very organized method ororganizing all out files, documents, pictures, music and all. Goodness knows how much organization I could use! Last but not least, we were to write in our daily blog as usual! Nothing new there!
Anyways, I'm gonna sign out now!
Over and out!
Natasha! :D

Hello everyone! *dejected mood*
Sorry I'm writing so late. Anyways, boy have I got bad news for you. My website was perfect and I posted it live online. But unfortunately I didn't post the page with my link to the marking page. Unfortunately, when I went to post it, it was past 10:00 and Mr.Arkin had locked the FTP Code. And as Mr.Arkin said, no link to marking scheme, no mark.
Anyhow, on Friday we spent the period marking our peer's work and then we worked on our super-power autobiography. I've gotta say, Friday just wasn't my day. I even forgot to save my peers marking sheet as a plain-text file. So, I hope that Mr.Arkin will let me re-post my work.
More later'
Nat

A Fingernail away from a Fruitful Victory!

Hello y'all!
I am very happy to tell you that I am on the brink of finishing my autopbiography assignment, and let me tell you, it hasn't been easy so far. When I started this project, I was so close to ripping my hair out; that's how stuck I felt. I don't know how I ever go through this project, but I do know that I owe Mr.Arkin big time for guiding me throughout me entire assignemnt. This project required hard-work (and good listening skills) but it was also extremely fun. I really liked how I could come up with any type of super power andelaborate on it. I kind of thought of it as a creative writing piece; minus all the revisions and rough drafts *wink* *wink* I also liked experimenting with all the different colour combination and making my website more intricate. I have to admit, making a webpage is a teensy bit harder than you might actually think.
But, what I absolutely hated was having a brain freeze and being momentarily - or hourarily (if there is such a word) - stuck. There were times when I could just scream in frustration - right now is actually one of those times since I'm not actually done my autobiography. Sometimes I didn't know the right codes, while other times things got really confusing and messed up because I have 3 pages in my autobiography.
Anyhow, today class was dedicated for the sole purpose of completing our website - no notes, nothing. Only our assignment.
I have a little more work to do that will take me an hour or so, which is why I am going to sign of right now.
I wouldn't want my procrastinating to get in the way of my sleep now would I??? :P
Over and Out
Captain Natasha

Almost to the Finish Line!

During the first day of high school, I would have never beleived that I would be able to create a full-fledged website on my own! Okay maybe not a full-fledged website-but close to one. I personally think that I have come a long way from the first day of school and learned a lot.
So, today in class we went over the heirarchical file structure and reviewed small things necessary in order to complete our file. We also made a few notes and then the rest of the period was simply dedicated to finishing up our website.
For homework, I am completing my website and all I have left to do is touch-up my pages by formatting them all. It has been quite an adventure!I have a question regarding the assignment though! When it says 2 internal links on the marking scheme, does it mean a link that leads somewhere on my website or a link that leads somewhere on the same page?
Anyways, I am going to keep this entry really short because I have a bucket load of homework to complete!
Byeas! :D
Nat

The Client Server Paradign!

Sorry guys, I'm going to have to keep this entry very short, because I have a lot of homeowork. It's funny how I end up completing all my assignments the day before they are due. I guess I do procrastinate a lot.
Anyways, enough about me and onto class. Today we went over the client-server paradign. It was basically information on how the client and server work together to bring the page you request. It was very interesting because I didn't really know how the procedure worked before. I didn't realize that there was a big procedure to bring up a single page. Wow! Talk about a lot o work in less time!
We also reviewed the character entities and were once again told to use the correct form in our work. We then spent class going over other important facts and vocabulary like protocols, diffrentiating development and production directories. We also learned about color contrast. It was like an art lesson and computer lesson mixed into one. It is very important to have the right colour contrast or else it will be very hard to read the content on the pages. It is also just as important to have spacing in your work; that also helps the eyes to follow along and read the information provided on the page.

My super power autobiography is going all right. I'm just lagging a bit behind. I am complete my main page and am working on creating my 2 internal links and the layout of the page. I really have to go now, so I will sign off.
Natasha

DJ Who?

I apologize that I couldn't write on Friday. The reason for that is because I was out of town and came back Saturday night.
Anyhow, on Friday we were in Studio 218. Mr. Arkin explained to us that every Friday we get to play music in class. Quite a treat isn't it? The only thing that we have to worry about is the music being clean and legal. So this Friday, DJ Arkin was in the house. He played a music from a group called Ra Ra Riot and the album was The Orchard. I have to say that the music was very good. I am beginning to feel that I haven't been exposed to good music yet!
Mr. Arkin also recommended 2 good softwares to download which will help a great deal. The first is Firefox and the second is NoteTab. We also learned character entity coded. This was a great help because I was wondering how to insert these into my super power autobiography. There is a helpful external link on the website that provides the codes for these charcter entities. It is very simple actually! A lot of the keys that are on our keyboard aren't the proper keys for the character entities that we want; quotation marks in specific. Another great thing that Mr. Arkin told us was that we can use our directories on the http://www.touque.ca/EC/ICS2O/students/index.html for all of our other classes. I think that is very helpful and a great way to keep me organized for all of my classes at Victoria Park.
Additionally, Mr. Arkin told us to read the book 1984 by George Orwell. I checked in my library but unfortunately it isn't available. So I've placed a hold on the book and hopefully will be able to read it in a short while.
My super power autobiography is going great and I think that it will be excellent. I have made a few external links and my story is almost finished. All I am missing is a few internal links and a few more finishing touches including the formatting. I'll update more tomorrow!
Natasha

Back into the World of Fantasy, Fiction and Super Powers!!!

Quite a day today!
Oh, and hello!
So, today was very relaxed and simple compared to all the other vigorous and confusing computer classes from these past two weeks. We started off by taking some notes and definitions from the board. The notes that we took mainly revolved around basic time-saving commands that we could use the keys to perform for us instead of the mouse. I've roughly calculated the time that I have wasted on using the mouse and the total came up to 6 months. Yikes! Think of all the zzzz time I could have had. Snoozing is definetely part of my top 3 things to do when I have free time. I'll be more specific:
1) Snoozing
2)Sleeping
3)Taking a nap
(:PJust kidding)
Here's the real list
1)Reading
2)Playing Sports
3)Watching movies + sleeping tie for third place
Anyways, apart from a few people who unfortunately couldn't validate their index. html. we were all free to go work on our super power autobiography. So I spent the entire period adding more information to my project, which by the way is coming along beautifully. I'm in a bit of a jam(strawberry - Mmmm!) though. I'm not sure if I should use my power for good or bad. Any ideas??? I'm telepathetic by the way which means that I can read other people thoughts and see visions of the future.
For homework we were required to read the typography section on http://www.touque.ca/EC/typography/index.html .
As it turned out it was quite useful information considering that I never really gave a second thought to the way I used quotation, spacing and emphasis. (My idea of emphasis is simply turning on the Caps Lock button. Needless to say, Mr.Arkin wasn't impressed when he saw my entire index.html in Caps the other day.)In addition to that, was the usual homework; writing in our blog (which I am doing currently) and continue to work on our super power autobiographies.
I have other homeowrk to complete so I'm gong to leave it at this. (Anyways, most of you are probably half-asleep now beacuse of the "story" I've just written)
I don't want to irritate you to death so I'm gonna sign off.

Hoping for some help,
Natasha
P.S Honestly though, I wasn't joking when I said I needed help deciding whether to use my power for good or bad. Any suggestions are welcome.

Validating my Index.html

Hello to you all!
Quite a turn of events, I've got to say.
When I started this course I was very confused and I'm not sure if I understood anything at all much less be able to create my own website. Yesterday I felt as if I understood what to do, then today during class I was right back to square 1. And now that I've successfully completed my homework, I bleive that I am back on track again. Whew, quite a story isn't it?!?
Anyways, in class today Mr.Arkin learned that not a lot of people in our class had validated our websites and put them up live on the web. We we were way behind people from the other classes. So, our entire period was designated to validating our index.html and then getting it live for the people who hadn't done so. Quite a pattern, don't ya think?
 Now, on to myself! Where 'o' where do I begin!
Ok, ok I'll cut the dramatic act!
There are some people out there who pick up things extremely quickly and then get the hang of it as easily as well.
Well, that is definetely more than I can say for myself. I guess I am a type of learner who needs time to familiarize herself with concepts she's just learned. I really enjoy watching the final peice of the websites I create. It's funt o know that I can create something that is actually live on the web (after I validate and use Filezilla, of course)
For homework, I worked on playing around and fiddling on my index.html.
I think I might have a record for the number of errors I had on my site - 17.
(?!?! Wait! Do I really want to go down in history for something like that?!?!) NOT likely!!
Anyhow,  after a few touch-ups I succeeded in validating my website and then put the new file up in my directory.
Don't worry, blog, I didn't forget about you! (although I wish I had, considering the load of homework I had today - just joking!!!!!! :D)
I am finally ending my day by recapping the events of my day to all of you readers out there.
YAWN *yawn* *yawn* YAWN
Would you look at that?? I'm tired already.
Nighty-night
Natasha

Hallelujah!!! I'm Telepathetic!

HELLO, EVERYONE WHO IS READING MY BLOG RIGHT NOW!!!!
I am very pleased to say that I, Natasha Jain, have gotten the hang of making a website and making it live (applause). Thank you, thank you! Really, it was nothing.
Ha Ha! I bet you fell for that eh? To tell you the truth it creating a website using html and css and making it live is a lot harder than you might think. It is definetely not a piece of cake. I was very confused when we started out this. I couldn't distinguish an html to a css. Thankfully, I can now tell the difference without a doubt : D.
Unfortunately today Mr. Arkin wasn't here due to the fact that he had to attend a funeral, so we had a supply teacher instead. We spend the period working on our super power autopbiographies and getting our index.html up live. Cool eh? You know, when I first started this course, I was exteremely overwhelmed with all the information that I was taught. Within the first week of school I was 100% sure that I was going to fail this course. I know this sounds cheesy, but at the moment I can relate myself to a sponge because everything is sinking in! Get it! Ha ha! (Ok, I'll stop with the corny jokes)
Yesterday, I had successfully created an index.html file and got it running live on the web. I am now very familiar with the basic and putting up a simple web page. I am now trying to familiarize myself with graphics, designs and other things (good luck with that Natasha *sarcastic tone*)
For homework, I am working more on my auobiography and am well on my way to finishing it.
It's amazing what you will find when you put in the teensiest bit of effort. I was exploring "Blogger" and I found an array of settings and design to change my blog page. I can now say with pride that I have accomplished something on my own without help from anybody.
Wait for it....
I HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING ON MY OWN WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF ANY FREIND OR FOE!
I also find it amazing how comfortable I'm getting with typing down the events of my day. I guess you get more familiar and comfortable as time progresses on.
Oh! That reminds me, speaking of familiarization, I need to get back to the hard labour(just kidding) of  my autobiography assignment.
Natasha
P.S I am a certified telepathetic.
P.P.S I know what your thinking right now as well; depending on who you are you are either thinking "Hmm. I sympathize with this kid" or "What an idiot!"

INDEX.HTML

Phew!!! What a day! All I can say is that today in computer class I was extremely confused and went home a bit unsure of what to do. When I tried to make my index.html file live on the web, it failed. My file did transfer, but it had no information in it. I was in a big dilemma all right! I then explored around a bit and asked a few of my frineds and finally managed to post it online.
Today in class, Mr.Arkin demonstrated how to download Filezilla and make our html file live on the web. We took a few notes and added to our glossary. The rest of the period was designated to work on uploading our files. I am still a bit confused and unsure of this whole process, but I think that I am now understanding it all bit by bit. I hope this will be clearer to me as class progresses on.
Natasha

My Assignment!!!

I am progressing very well on my super power autobiography. The only part that I seem to be stuck on is the internal website. I know how to get the link on my site, but I am not sure how to add information on that link.
Other than that, my website is half-way done.
I am also still stuck on the formatiing and am not sure whether the code goes before or after the content.
Natasha

Project Update!!!

My super power autobiography is wellon its way to progress. I am stuck on some areas, but other than that everything is clear.
I DO NOT understand the font, size and formatting of the website. Additionally, is it possible to add a border to my webstite. If it is, what command do I type into the program.
Natasha

My Super-Power Autobiography!!!

Today during class I worked on my super power autobiography assignment. Class was an excellent work period and I utilized my time extremely well.
I was able to figure out all the details of my super power and also get started on creating my website. I am now very familiar with creating a website and the commands and tags to type into notepad.
My website is well on its way to progress.
The only question I have is related to what to type in when altering the font and size.
Natasha

Getting the Hang of it!!!

At first when I started practicing on Notepad, I was stuck. I didn't understand anything. But as class went on, it got a bit easier and I was easily able to create a practice website along with colour and background as well.
It was very interesting experimenting with all the different fonts, features and colours there were.
I'm still a bit unsure, but I think I've got the hang of it.
Right now for homework, I am experimenting a bit more on my practice template before I start my actual project tomorrow.
Natasha

HUH! I'M LOST!!!

Today was very confusing and i'm not sure that I understood alot. :(
I am definetely going to need a lot of clarification and help. Today we were introduced to tags and more vocab related to computers :^O
All I got the hang of today was tags, body, heading, html and css. That's about it! We are going to create our own website and I'm very excited about that!!!I think it is very cool that a simple command can change the entire site :D
I'm just reviewing the notes I took in class and trying to understand this a bit better. :)

Natasha

First Day!!!

Today was a bit overwheleming and all, but really cool and exciting as well. I think that it's awesome that we get to have our own blog and can add posts and comment. :D

I got familiar with the computer studies course today and what we'll be doing throughout the entire semester. So far, I've accomplished to create my own wikispace and blogger acount. And right now I'm on the way to post my first blog on my account!!!

I think that this computer studies class will be really good for me and that I will enjoy it.
Later,
Nat