Today I started and finished Assignment 6.7 on for loops.

reading stuff

Today during silent reading, I read about a father selling his son's Guitar hero 3 for nintendo wii for 9100 dollars on ebay, after catching his son smoking pot in the backyard. I also read an article on national geographic news listing the top ten photo galleries of 2007.

Question 1

1. What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome
them?/How did you overcome them?

While writing the madlibs program, one problem I encountered was that at first, after you have 10 of a word type, if you continued to try to add words the counter would eventually go out of bounds. To solve this, I combined two sets of If statements I had, so that it would only add the word and decrement the counter if there were less than 10 of that word type already.

Today I finished and turned in the Dice Game project. Tomorrow, I will start working on the Madlibs program.

Today I started and finished Step 7 of the Chapter 5 Exercises. I also started working on the dice game program. Tomorrow I should be able to finish the dice game.

I finished step 6 today, and started working on making up Step 7 of the Chapter 5 assignments.

Today I read a bunch of news on computer hardware, like where one site found a motherboard based on a chipset thats not being announced for a month, through Google translated sites. I also read a review of Zonaria's first release, Infamy and the Breed.

Scored thru 11/25 (20 pts possible) - see Edline for your score tomorrow evening.

reading stuff

Today I looked at concert listings for different venues in Maryland. I also read The Mist by Stephen King, one of his short stories that's going to be released as a movie soon.

Today I read some reviews of upcoming hardware regarding the Penryn and Phenom processors, as well as general technology news, especially regarding net neutrality and other broadband related topics.

I did stuff.

3. How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?
Today, to test my program, which was a random number guessing game, I ran the program, and played it several times in order to make sure that the number range was correct, and that the game would stop after 3 guesses were made.

6. What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?
I completed all of Step 4 today, including the questions on random number generation, and Exercise 10. Next class, I need to work on Step 5 for Chapter 5.

random numbers

• AI responses in games
• number guessing
• encryption keys
• randomly generated passwords
• seeds

Scored through 10/31. All blogs from this point forward are second marking period.
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The school was on fire yesterday.


6. What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?
I did the questions for step 3 today.

I Am America(And So Can You!)

Today I read in Stephen Colbert's new book, I Am America(And So Can You!). I read the chapter about religion, where Stephen Colbert basically fries every religion except Roman Catholocism. He also has a "letter" written by God.

Scored through 10/18. Check Edline for scores on Monday evening.

reading summaryzzzz

Today I read about the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program at UMBC, from a packet I got from the College Center this morning. I also read a review of the Dell XPS laptop comparing it to an Alienware laptop, since Alienware is now owned by Dell.

10-8-07

1. What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome
them?/How did you overcome them?

One problem I encountered while developing my solution was that some of the images were too large for the picture box, and most of the image would be cut off. In order to solve this problem, I edited each picture, resizing the image until it would completely fit in the picture box.

10-7-07

6. What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class? I started the Just Joking project, with the format of the design for buttons and labels, and also found the 5 jokes to use and coded them into the buttons. Next class I will add the pictures to the program and make any final formatting changes.

Readin Stuffz

I read some news articles about a new AMD enthusiast chipset coming out called the 790FX, which just had its official logo released. I also read about a Microsoft bug with the Windows Vista validation process for downloading updates and hotfixes. After that I looked at some products on Thinkgeek.com, such as a usb powered shaver, and swedish firesteel.

Scored through 10/5. Check edline for updated grades on Monday evening.

6. What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class? Today I completed Chapter 4 exercises 5-8, which are programs that work with variables and various operations on variables. Tomorrow I need to complete exercise 9, which is the last of the set.

stuff

5. Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.

Dim intPerimeter As Integer
This command is used to declare an integer variable named intPerimeter. Today, I used this command to declare variables which were used to store data, in order to perform operations on them later on and display the result.

readin stuffs

Today I read several news articles on the Reuters news service. One was on the overfishing of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean. Scientists warn that the tuna there may be close to a crash in the population. I also read an article about the launch of the world's first OLED tv by Sony.

Silent Reading Summary

I read reviews and benchmark results of the recently released Harpertown server processors from Intel, based on the Penryn core. The benchmarks were run at IDF 2007, the Intel Developer Forum. I also read reviews of a Nvidia Geforce 8600GT video card, as well as several articles on the Halo 3 release, and the results of the EU's antitrust case against Microsoft.

Scored on 9/23/07. Check edline for grade posting tomorrow evening.

stuff

1. What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome
them?/How did you overcome them?

Today in class, I started and finished the Smiley face project. One problem I encountered while writing this program was how to change the image in the picture box object through code. I solved it by using the code segment

Me.pbSmiley.Image = Image.FromFile("O:\Petr\Period3\smileyFaces\happy.jpg")

Silent Reading

Summary of Reading:
During silent reading today, I read hardware reviews of the Intel Xeon 3210 Processor. In the review, they overclocked it and compared benchmark results to other Intel processors based on the Core 2 Duo cores. I also read a news article about how Microsoft lost their appeal in the EU antitrust case.

Score thru 9/14 0/4

Scored through 9/10. (8/2 pts)

Reading Summary

During the silent reading, I read a couple articles on the new AMD processor core, Barcelona, and also read news on Reuters. Some articles were regarding mortgages in the US, and an article about an arctic station in Norway being able to detect carbon emissions from China in the air near the arctic circle.

Reflection 2

5. Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that
will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little
code as well as a written explanation with this one.

Today we made a demo form, with buttons and labels. One of the code segments we used was :
Private Sub BtnMessage_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnMessage.Click
Me.LblMessage.Text = "In Diabolus nos Fides"
which coded for the button BtnMessage. When clicked, this code would cause the button to change the text in the label LblMessage from black to "In Diabolus nos Fides". To make this code, I double clicked the button to start the code for the button, then added the Me.LblMessage.Text="In Diabolus nos Fides" segment to code the behavior which changed the label text.

STUFF WE DID

4. Are there any specific tips you would give to someone else tackling the same problem? How would
what you suggest benefit that person in solving the problem?

If someone else were doing this same assignment, I would suggest using copy and paste to duplicate the options that were the same or similar. This would cut down on the time required to do this assignment. This would also be a more efficient way to get things done, as each button's properties would take less time and effort to list.

9/4/07

6. What progrss did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?
Today I worked on listing the different types of objects in Visual Studio, and listing which properties changed what on the object. Such as backcolor changing the background color of the object, forecolor changing the color of the text in the object, and text changing what text whas displayed in the object. Tomorrow I need to continue to list objects and their properties.

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