Thursday, April 26, 2007

weekly status

During this past week we have been working with loops which allow you to run a program continuously and we also learned about nested loops, which are loops that run within another loop.
We traced some programs and wrote down the output in pars. We also wrote a stopwatch program that we could reset. Although stopwatches can be quite useful they have many flaws. One of such flaw is that the timer does not go by exactly as it should, and can’t run for more than a minuet at a time.
Overall this past week has been quite interesting. We ended the week with a challenging test that tested our knowledge in loops, the different types of operators and also the variables used in visual basics.

Friday, April 6, 2007

weekly status

At the beginning of this week we were assigned into groups to work on the most interesting and complicated program so far. The program that we would have to create enabled the user to input their own custom pizza and do a variety of algorithms to find out the accurate price of the user's order.
We encountered multiple problems but with the help of fellow students, the teacher, and by communicating and cooperating with each other we were able to finish our project on time.
I found this project incredibly insightful and enjoyable compared to other projects, partly because we were able to work in pairs, and also because this program was a great challenge that tested our knowledge in computer programing.