The New Series

My new plan will to be to finish all of the next gen assignments to help practice my python before I get into the harder stuff with it again. Today I worked on the "Rock, paper, Scissors" assignment and I'm almost finished with it, all I have to do now for it is to compare the two computer choices and decide a winner from the results.

The Reboot Trilogy

Today I did a lot more codeacademy than I've been doing over the past few days. Rightnow is more of a review section and where I'm combining what I've been learning over the past few chapters and applying them. Right now I'm having an issue with lists and loops. I don't really know what codeacademy is asking me to do and a lot of the time when I get an error it's just something small. I'm 52% done the course now and it's getting a lot harder

The Day Reboot Part Two

Today I did a lot of codeacademy for python. The lessons have gotten a little harder than yesterday but I'm still breezing right through it. I hope to finish the entire course by early next week; I'm doing the whole course with even the parts that I already know because it'll improve my understanding of all of it and help me learn how to apply it better. Today for the most part I've been learning about lists and dictionaries and all of their associated functions and methods that they have. I'm now done about 38% of the python course.

The Day Reboot

Today I started out with trying to finish Mr. Wongs new returners assignment, but then I realized that I forgot how to do python from the month or so that I was learning about and doing Java instead. So I went on codeacademy on the python section from the start and I finished 25% of that course. It's been a long time since I've worked that hard in class and I'm proud of what I accomplished today.

The Day The Quadogy

Today I started working on my strategy game. It took me a little bit to get started with the title menu because I haven't coded for a little bit in Java. I keep on getting an error for a scanner function which is a variable that takes user input and I';m not really sure why that's happening because the online java console tha I'm using doesn't really give me an idea of why specifically it isn't working.

The Day The Quadogy

Today I watched a video tutorial on linked lists for java. They seem kind of useless and I'm not really sure what their purpose is and how they're different from arrays or arraylists. They seem a little bit specific and I don't think I'll need to use them in my strategy game. About that strategy game that I wanted to create , I googled some examples of java text-based strategy games that I could base my code on. I watched a guys youtube video on him making one of those. I'm about halfway through the video and now I have a better idea of how to start off making my game.

The Day The Trilogy

Today instead of learning about arrays and multi-dimensional arrays, I learned about arraylists. I don't know the whole reason on why these are two separate things, but I know now that these have a lot of built in functions in them that would be useful to implement in the strategy game that I'm going to make soon. They seem very useful with creating a character name and manipulating stats. I'm definetley going to be using array lists in my strategy game.

The Day The Sequel

Today I rewatched Derek Bananas array tutorial and payed a lot more attention to it this time around. He would prin t them out using for and while loops and that was a little bit confusing but I have a lot better understanding of how arays and multi-dimensional arrays work now.

The Day

Today I started out with the idea of creating a game like the avalanche game on the internet using python. In this game the player is a block and other blocks fall down all around and stack on top of each other. Then the player has to jump on those blocs while trying not to be squished. I started out trying to recreate that but then I realized that I completely forgot  everything about drawing objects in python. I then watched another java video tutorial about multi-dimensional arrays wwhich will help me if I want to make a tile based movement game.

Seventeenth Day

Today I watched a you tube tutorial of a guy making a game in Java using arrays, I still don't really understand what was going on but I think I'm going to watch it again tomorrow with headphones and I'll understand it better. I think I'm going to try to make the same txt-based game that he did sometime later in the week.

Sixteenth Day

Over the break I watched a few java video tutorials and worked on a rock paper scissors java project and I still need to finish it a little bit so I'm working on a few bugs. Today I didn't really know what to do so I watched two java video tutorials on exception handling which is going to help me out a lot. Tommorow I'm going to go on a java console website and try to make a program because java eclipse hasn't been set up on my computer yet.

Fourteenth Day

I haven't been making many blogs for the past few days mostly because I've been working on my api to the end of every class and the last day I worked on it Mr. Wong was helping me out with an issue I've had until the block ended. The issue that I've had was with the icon for Hong Kong always showing the clear symbol no matter what condition it was. It turns out that I was using my or comoporators wrong because I was outputting the same symbol for all of the cloudy's, so to fix that I had to do if x in(wather_icon). Today I was finishing it up and I sent it into Mr. Wong's google classroom.

Thirteenth Day

Today I worked on my API weather app. I used Mr. Wong's code as an example. For my weather app I reset the coordinates to the location of Hong Koong and the app tells you that. I think for next day if we have no new assignments I'll try to change it so that the user can enter in their own coordinates for any location that they want/.

Twelfth Day

Today I tried to start understanding and working on my weather API. I already have my code from yesterday and I started googling what all of the keywords meant from Mr. Wong's test code. When I needed extra help on why Mr. Wongs test code wasn't working, I saw thaat he had a lot of students to help so I started working on downloading eclipse for my Java personal project. I was having a lot of difficulties with that so I went on an online java console. I tried to start on my card game using that but I was having a hard time figuring out how I was going to start on that.  I got frustrated  and asked to go for a walk, but by this time Mr. Wong was done helping other students, he helped me out and I got his test code to run. I got that worked out and started to work on my API again. Codeacademy Java does not work on the school computors for some reason so I will just work on that at home tonight.

Eleventh Day

Today I started on encryption. I  looked oover Mr. WWongs code a few times and tried to understand what was going on. Whenever I saw a method or function that I didn't know I would google it to see how it works. Now I'm starting to copy his code for the first time around because it helps me learn better, after that I'll start my own.

10th Day

Today I started working on my final mastery assignment. I was doing pretty good up until the end when I was getting this weird error where no matter what number I would put in there it would tell me that the deck of cards doesn't have that many. I'm going to ask for Mr.. Wong's help on that tomorrow because today I was trying to get some help on that issue but they could't see why that was happening.

Ninth Day

Today I finished the "sTUDENT bECOMES The Teacher Lesson" of python codeacademy today. I didn''t have really any big problems with it at all. Some parts I had to go on the FAQ forum to help me out. I'm going to try to do some codeacademy and finish my final mastery assignment on the weekend so I can get started on my project for Monday.

Eighth Day

Today I worked on python on lists functions and dictionaries alltogether. It was a little bit hard at first but then Mr. Wong came over  and helped me out with it. The ocddeacademy tutoruials are getting a lot harder and more interconnected than the earlier lessons and I'm probably going to spend some time at home trying to learn it better.

Seventh Day

Today I din''t even try to work on the final assignment, instead I was working on my codeacademy for python so that when I do work on my final assignment it will be less of a pain. I was doing pretty good until the last few minutes where i was getting a syntax error and I wasn't sure what the problem was. It took me a few minutes then I asked Mr. Wong what was wrong and he fixed i t for me. I think it'll take me two or three more days on codeacademy to get all the information I need to start my final assingment.

Sixth Day

Yesterday I forgot to make a blog post, to sum it all up I was learning a little bit of javascript off of codeacademy and with the help of alex. I finished my javascript mastery assignments today. They were a lot easier to do now that I learned a little bit of it from yesterday. I've now finished all of the mastery assignments except for the final one. I heard that I should try to learn to do classes in python first before I try it, so that is what I'm learning from codeacdemy now. I'm also relearning how to do functions, it's pretty easy.

Fourth Day

I finished all of my python mastery projects today and I sent them in. The second part of it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Last year I didn't really understand how frames worked along with seconds but I get it now. I started and I'm about halfway done the html assignment now. I forgot how to do the base of the webpage so I had to go on code academy to refresh how to do that. I'm doing my first webpage about lions.

Third Day

I finished my python mastery assignment one and am now almost done the second one.  I got jared to help me with drawing rectangles and getting the pygame base loops all set up. So far this year I know more about python than I ever did last year. Last year I Mostly just did Java. What I need to finish now on my second assignment is colors touchng borders.

Second Day

Today I spent most of my time on code academy relearning about the  basics of python. I also tried to download and install eclipse neon and jdk to do java, I didn't do it right though so I'll probably have to do it another time.  I also started the first python assignment and am almost done it, it'll take about two more minutes to finish the whole thing.

First Day

Today in web we talked a lot about what we are going to be doing this semester. I want to work harder than last time on my projects. I'm glad I took this class again and am looking forward to working on my new projects. Last year I didn't finish any of them, but this year I hope to finish at least one.