Guest Teacher Once Again! (2010-11-30)

Today we had a guest teacher again! From what I heard, Mr. Arkin is ill. I do genuinely hope that he gets better!

I worked more on my substring assignments, and I am currently on assignment twenty. It has been fun, but I do hope Mr. Arkin returns so we can start learning more concepts. I began reading the Turing manual and resources that I found online. I have been learning about graphics. Interesting, I must say. I am actually nervous about the culminating activity. I hope we get to complete it at home so that I get more time to complete it just in case I miss class again due to volleyball.

I always put some extra information about my life in and outside of school at the end of my blog. I try to keep it only about Computer Science class. However, I always end up ranting on and on about my life by the end of my blog post. So, today I am going to do the same. I just had a teleconference with the executives and president of the CCCYC (Chinese Cultural Center Youth Chapter) on Skype, and may I say that I am technologically deprived. I had a panic attack right before the meeting, because I didn't realize that my computer does not have a microphone attached. I must say, that was a facepalm worthy moment. Fortunately, I got it worked out and everything else when smoothly. Again, "Wow, Lisa."

That's all! Goodbye, Blogger!

rkWo riodPe! (2010-11-29)

Today we had a work period to work on the substring assignments. Not much happened today in class, actually. I just spent most of my time learning about substrings and testing out different things. I started on my substring assignements, and finished a few more at home tonight. I am currently on assignment twelve. When I look at how many assignments there are to complete, I get overwhelmed. However, when I actually read the instructions, they are actually not that hard. They are simply very time consuming to add a documentation sections, declare variables, and add the major sections (D.I.P.O.).

Speaking of something-completely-unrelated-to-computer-science, I had the first official league game for volleyball of the season! We won! I have a good feeling about this year's volleyball team. We are on a roll!

There will be a game on Wed, Friday, next Wed, and all day next Thursday for a tournament. Wow, I just realized that I miss a lot of class just for sporting events. First there is cross-country, and now volleyball comes along. It is definitely worth it, and I would be able to catch up. However, it is simply a lot of stress to have to worry about so much.

Lastly, the unit test is postponed to next week. As happy as I am, I just hope it will not be scheduled on one of the days I have to miss computer science class for volleyball... *fingers-crossed*

Tomorrow we will have a guest teacher once again! It will be a work period, I assume.

Ms. Underachiever (2010-11-26)

Today I felt like I just won an award for Ms. Underachiever. On Friday, Mr. Arkin showed us a game he created and as did Prashanth. Tasfia also had a creation of her own! Lastly, Zelin created a tag game as well as a remake of the classic mini game, Pong. As much as I feel happy and proud of my classmates' achievements, I realize that I barely know how to draw a circle in Turing. Sigh... There is so much to do, and there is so little time. I saw this "IB joke" on the Internet a while ago: "I noticed that sleep has been canceling on me lately. Maybe its cheating on me. I guess I have to make plans with homework now then." Anyways, enough complaining, I spent this weekend editing and printing any outstanding assignments. I also spent it starting a test study guide. I wonder when the test will be... I just hope Mr. Arkin won't suddenly announce that it will be on Monday- since he said that we should be prepared.

In addition, I played my band CD for Studio 218 today. Let's just say that the feedback was not so positive. :/ However, that is fine. I actually kind of expected it after I listened to it myself for the first time last month. 

Aside from this, I better start doing some Kumon math. I am really behind on my homework...

Goodbye!

..the most wonderful time of the year! (2010-11-25)

Today was one of the best days of this school year so far! I attended a volleyball tournament today at the school, and I played volleyball for the entire day. As the Staples commercial said, "It is the most... wonderful time.. of the year!" The team played a couple of games and between those games we had time to rest. I spent most of that time wandering around the school and doing my homework. It was beautiful.

We advanced to the finals and played against East York. Unfortunately, it was a very close game. We lost to them by 22-25 in the last set. If only we got those serves in...

Anyways, on the bright side, we received a silver medal that said, "Victoria Park Invitationals Finalist" My first medal of the season!

I had a break near the end of the second period, which was my computer science class. However, since it was already 11:29pm, I didn't feel that it would be suitable to disturb the class just for a few minutes of class.

I visited the daily log. Apparently, I missed a lot of material- or so it seems. The class learned about "the three skills of successful programmers," and the "logical alternatives for repetition assignment 8." I should really get the notes I missed for Tuesday (which I haven't taken the initiative to) and Thursday.

That's all for now! Goodbye!

Fun. (2010-11-24)

Today we learned about arrays. It is such a complex concept, but we only learned two new keywords: array and of. It just goes to show how much we learned over the course of this unit and how far we have come.

For homework, we have to modify repetition assignment twelve to incorporate what we learned today about arrays. We also have to catch up on all programming assignments -except substrings- to prepare for a test next week. Fun. I have a better feeling about this than the first unit test earlier this month. Hopefully I will be able to bump up my average before the Winter Break.

That's it for now. I just noticed that my blog posts are getting shorter and shorter. Whenever I write these posts nowadays, it is always so late at night. At that time the only thing I am thinking of is sleep.

Which reminds me. I need to go to bed. Goodbye.

Slowly Killing Me Inside (2010-11-23)

Today I missed class because of the G20 Summit at Leaside which I attended. Since this is a computer science class blog, I am not going to rant on about my experience there.

I heard from my classmates and read from the daily log and wikispace discussions that we had a printer assignment review. I received an email last night notifying us that the marks are posted in front of the rm 218 door in the morning. It is slowly killing me inside to know what I received.

Anyways for homework, all we have to do is assignment twelve. Aha! My prediction was correct! I am going to do assignment twelve for homework today!

Programming is Fun! (2010-11-22)

Today we had individual time to work on our repetition assignments. We have number nine to eleven assigned for homework. I finished up to ten on Saturday, so I only had assignment eleven to finish. It was quite a relaxing period. I finished the basic elements of the assignment in ten minutes, and I spent another twenty minutes "embelishing" it.

The rest of the period was just spent helping my classmates with their assignments, and I also had some time to play around with my code. I added a continue or exit option at the end. Then, when the user chose to exit, I added several delays. Then, the program outputted, "Sorry, did I annoy you? Okay, sorry about that. Go do your IB homework. Lisa did hers, and you just experienced an exemplar. Goodbye." Class was fun.

I should have spent the time to work on assignment twelve, but I thought to myself I can do that for homework.

However, it turns out that I had to go to a VPLAY meeting to work on a lip-dubber video project. Then, I returned home at 5pm and waited for my French teacher. I am not sure if it was mentioned in the previous blog posts, but I will be attending a G20 Summit at Leaside High School. I will be representing Argentina. As exciting as it sounds, I am truly not prepared for the conference, as I only did very minimal preparation and studying. Very unfortunately, I will not get time to work on assignment twelve tonight. I will probably do whatever is assigned tomorrow (I will be missing class) tomorrow night.

Looking forward to the G20 Summit tomorrow! Now.. about Argentina's economy and its political issues...

Individual work on repetition assignments. Homework: Repetition assignments 9–11. Daily blog posting.