Weekly Status Report #5

This week in class, we worked on three programs and learned new controls for Visual Basics. We also had a test on flowcharts and programming today and by the end of Friday, we have to hand in our memory key with case 3 and a flowchart for that program. This week we had lessons on debugging, we learned about compiler errors, run-time errors and logic errors.

This week I completed all the required work on the case worksheet and I handed in my key with case 3. The new skills I learned this week were involved with Visual Basics, for example I learned how to debug my program and how to use new controls like message box and radio buttons. I had a few problems when writing my program because there was a lot of code that had to be written for the case 3 program. I had to debug this program to avoid run-time errors because if the candidates became tied or the user did not enter a number, the program would hang and maybe even crash the computer. The flowchart for this program also took quite a bit of time to create because there were so many different options.

Next week is March break so there is no work assigned yet, however my future goals are like the weeks before; I want to be able to use Visual Basics fluently and be able to create a complex program using the maximum potential of myself and also of Visual Basics.