Weekly Status Report #15

This week in our computer programming class, we continued our lessons on ergonomics and continued working on our lottery ticket programs that we had marked. We also started to learn about visual basics animation and our computer science exam has been scheduled.

This week with ergonomics, we learned some stretches that we can do for a break from the computer and to make sure that we aren't harming ourselves while working on the computer. I finished my lottery ticket program and had it marked on Wednesday. I didn't have a lot of trouble with this program, it was just long and I had to comment the whole project. There was one problem when I had my program marked, it was that when the arrays reached -1, my loop kept going through all of the arrays. The way I could fix this problem is by having an 'If' statement saying that if the array is -1 then Exit For (this creates a more efficient program).

When we started with animations, I didn't understand how to do it, however after practicing a bit more I think I understand. I found the Zoom In assignment to be easier, it made more sense to me. I hope that next week I will be able to write a program with animation very easily.

Weekly Status Report #14

This week in computer programming we had two lessons on ergonomics and started a new assignment using arrays and while and for loops. This assignment was a program for the calculation of lottery tickets, so that the vendor could calculate the number of days he recorded, the number of days it took to sell over 200 tickets or the highest ticket sales in a day.

The things that we learned concerning ergonomics were how to sit properly at a desk and typing on the keyboard and using your mouse. We also learned about CPS (carpel tunnel syndrome) and didn't affects from the workplaces. I learned a lot from this because now I know that I should take breaks if I spend a long time in front of the computer. I also learned the types of pains that you could get from using the computer for too long. For the program, it didn't seem to complicated at first; I find that it was just the matter of choosing the proper loops and method. For each of the buttons, I found that For loops was the best option.

Next week I hope to finish commenting on the whole program and to finish debugging the program. The class still has three more lessons on ergonomics, since I took business last year I already learned about ergonomics and so learning this again is good to refresh my memory. I hope that next week we will learn more things and I will receive a good mark on my lottery tickets program.

Weekly Status Report #12

This week we spent Monday and Tuesday finishing our SIN project and we had them marked on Wednesday. This project was a SIN validating project that asks the user to input their SIN number and this program would see if it was valid and display the results. We also learned about drawing in visual basics and had to fill out a sheet about origins and computer terms. Finally by the end of the week, (Friday), we started to work on a test statistics program that calculated the average of marks and found the highest mark and lowest mark as well.

This week I had a few minor problems. In regards to the SIN validation project, I just had problems writing out the code. However, once I had done that, I didn’t have any problems debugging it. I haven’t finished the program with the marks, however right now I have ideas of how to do it and how to write the code, which is pretty straightforward. However, I wont know for sure until I actually finish the program. A few potential problems that I see are with adding up the marks for the average and at the same time finding the highest and lowest number without any problems.

This week we also received our tests back; I found that I did all right, maybe not as good as I hoped but pretty decent as well. I hope that next week I will be able to finish the program with no problems and be successful.