Wednesday's Question

6). Today I finished everything with step three and turned it in. I had exercise three done and completed exercise four in class today. The solutions has worked out well. For next class, I need to move on to step four and complete that.

Tuesday's Question

2). When developing my solution, I had a choice between choosing to use 2 types of code. One was select case else statement and another was select case Is statement. I decided to use the select case Is statement because it is more similar to the if...then...esle statement and I felt more comfortable using that one because I had a better idea of how to use it.

Firday's Question

6). Today I got about half way throught step three. I will be able to finish it next class and move on to step 4, even though step 3 is due a day after next class.

Wednesdy's Question

4) A problem I faced was getting a long equation to work out properly. Making the equation fit in one line with many signs (+,-,*,/) is a shorter way but its easy to make a mistake and hard to catch them. My advise would be to just take small parts at a time and write the equation piece by piece.

Reading Summary

A forty four year old man named Francisco Santiago killed his wife and himself while letting his kids witness it. He shot his wife and himself in the head with a small-caliber handgun. He had three kids. He sent his 10 year old boy to his aunt’s room but his teenage son and eight year old daughter stayed and saw the killing. Four or five shots and children’s screaming were heard by neighbors. In 2005, the man was arrested for assaulting his wife and the wife ordered a restraining order but she let it expire.

Scored through 10/18. Check Edline for scores on Monday evening.

Thursday's Question

6). Today I completed step one that was assigned today. On monday, the due date for step one, I need to turn it in and start on step two even though its not due anytime soon.

Reading Summary

Three students, two males and one female, from the University of Texas were lost in the Airman's Cave. They were stuck there for three days until rescuers found them and brought them out without any injuries. Before the three students left for the cave, they told a friend to call 911 if they had not returned after midnight. The friend ended up calling at 5:00am. The cave is known to be very complex and any inexperienced person can get lost.

Thursday's Question

3). Today I finished the Joke project and tested it. The codes worked well; the joke, picture and the punch-line all worked properly. However, sometimes I have to close the program and reopen it and click "play" again to get it to work because an error message comes.

wednesday's Question

1). A problem I kept encountering while developing my soultion was that i could not test out my project. Every time I clicked on play, an error message appears. I changed the security option but it still didn't work. After trying several ways to get it to work, I noticed that it works sometimes and doesn't work sometimes. When the teacher came to help, it worked but I am still having trouble with it. Next class I will ask the teacher to help again.

Question 2

2). I had many choices on how to set up the Joke Project. The instructions didn't say how to set it up so I had to make up my own. I tired a few ways of organizing the lables, buttons, etc. and chose the one that looked the best.

Reading Summary

A 36 year old man was charged with two counts of murder, robbery and other similar offenses after shooting at 3 guards at a bank and killing 2 of the guards. The third guard injured but lived. The two guards that were killed were former police officers. The third guard got injured from flying pieces of glass. Police found an empty black duffel bag that may have been left by the criminal. Schools and malls around the area were locked in and shut down. Police are now looking for a man with a black shirt, blue jeans and an yellow hat with an Acura TL with tinted windows and a sunroof and continue to review the video tapes.

Scored through 10/5. Check edline for updated grades on Monday evening.

Wednesday's Questions

6). Today i got to finish all but the last three exercises. I got started on exercise seven but did not finish it but I got an idea of how to do it. Next class I plan to finish exercise seven and eight and also nine if I dont have too much trouble with them.

Tuesday's Question

4). If someone is having trouble not getting the right answer when testing the problem, I would advise them to check if they have 15 numbers and if they do, then they did the program correctly. The book wirtes the answer in a shorter form when you type .01 so its fine if you get something different.

Reading Summary

The article I read was about the problem of dry eyes. New research has been done by Tom Millar, a professor at University of Western Sydney and he has found that there is a thin layer of protein keeping the tears together and stopping it from evaporating. Before this, it was thought to be lipids that was the thin layer protecting the tears. The new discovery will help create better eye drops that will keep the eye from becoming dry for a longer period of time.