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.