Week Fifteen: Status Report

This week was a short week because of a holiday on Monday. Once the class arrived back at Computer Science, we continued working on our Lottery ticket record programs in the Visual Basic application. After taking a couple of days to edit my array and disfunctional buttons, my program finally became fully functional.

We had a quick lesson on Ergonomics which focussed on excecises we can do during our break intervals from working at the computer. These excercises focussed on breathing techniques, as well as neck and arm excercises. Also, we recieved a hand out that talked about adding an animation element to our programs. The different functions that this hand out covered were the expanding and shrinking of the object, as well as making an object mobile on our screens. On Friday, my Lottery ticket record program was finally marked.

Week Fourteen: Status Report

For the first two days of this week, I was absent from class. When I returned on Wednesday, we were introduced to the history and importance of Ergonomics. Ergonomics is the inter-disciplinary science of ergonomics explores human capabilties and limitations and uses this knowledge to improve the design of things that people use and the ways in which they work. Also, we were given an assignment which uses Arrays and is based on creating a record keeping program for the sale of Lottery Tickets.

On Thursday, we continued working on our Array assignment. Also, we recieved another short lesson on Ergonomics, and the certain problems that can occur from poor posture when using the computer. On Friday, we did not have another Ergonomics lesson like the past two classes. For the entire period we were given time to work on our "Lottery ticket record" assignmet in hopes of finishing it.

Week Thirteen: Status Report

On Monday, we completed an assignment which was based on inputting test results, and being able to see the highest mark, lowest mark, and average of the test results from clicking the appropiate buttons. On Tuesday, we had a lesson on using Arrays. An Array is a powerful data structure that stores variable data having the same data type. On Wednesday, we continued to work on our Array assignments; in hopes of completeing them. On Thursday and Friday, I did not attend my classes. This was for a reason I rather not discuss. Many other things are going through my mind right now.

Week Twelve: Status Report

On Monday, we worked on our project which is based on the validity of SIN numbers. Also, with 35 minutes left to go in the class, all of these Computer Science students went outside to clean up the forest to help with the saving of the environment. By the end of Tuesday's class, I completed the SIN numbers program; it was written and working.

On Wednesday, we had a quick lesson on using Drawing in Visual Basic. The first type of program we were taught to write for this was drawing lines coming out of a horizon point. On Thursday, our regular Computer Science teacher was absent; we had ended up having two supply teachers. We worked on a worksheet which had questions that incorporated the history of the calculator and computer. On Friday, we were given a project that askes the user to input test results. The user can then click the High, Low, or Average button to display the corresponding statistic.