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.

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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.