Week 9 Term Test 2

A sierpinski triangle? what on earth is that ? well its the name of the guy Wacław Sierpiński who described it in the good old days of 1950s. First when I looked at the program and saw the word, I naively tried to find what the sierpinski function does on the Dr Racket manuals found online but to my dismay, there was no sierpinski function... well then what was it ? it was one of those functions  you "create" and tell it what to do and not a predefined racket function. Well anyway it basically just puts triangles on top of each other to get the distinct sierpinski triangle  as you see on the left here. Its kind of like the inception movie because the code adds layer on top of a layer each time to make  sierpinski triangle deeper and deeper or just larger and more complex. It was pretty cool I would say.


Now onto a less cheerful subject, the Term Test. dun dun DUN!!! I wrote all the number and hardware notes on my cheat sheet, examples of check expect statements, binary conversions and everything else we needed to know and I was on a pretty good roll during the test or that was what I thought.  I had all the answers right in front of me and I was filling them all in but then unfortunately we ran out of time which was really unfair because I had the answers but no time to write them down. Maybe next time we should get maybe an hour and a half to write it, and maybe in another lecture room so we do not have to rush to get out so the next class could get in. So it is my humble suggestion to the authorities reading this to consider more test writing time ! please !

Week 8

This whole week was spent stressing out about Project one .

The biggest problem was getting it to bounce back once it reached the end like it was originally programmed to do!! After much frustration and head scratching and on the day of... we, meaning me and my brilliant partner figured out that we were entering the wrong x and y values this whole time and we never told the program what to do once it reached the bottom of the window. Well that was stupid ! and the fox and mice program .... that was a whole other catastrophic !  But when you have a relentless partner like mine, shes going to make sure the job gets done !

Week 7

This week was all about the number ! binary , integer. integer, binary. at first it was a lot to take in all the zeros and all the conversions but in the end , it was pretty simple once you get the concept of it. To be honest, I actually did not understand when Mr.Heap taught it but eventually i got the hang out it when I watched this you tube video ! Oh and the part two of the wikipedia assignment. Just like the several other times i first started freaking out reading the instructions the part two ( i seriously think it the very official restrict sort of font its written in. They should consider a more friendly font like comic sans or something) but it was just basically reading the Help section of the community portal and writing a plan about how I am going to use that information to do the actual edits. One last thing, the quiz , on struts... well that too took me a while to get a hang of ( maybe im just slow o.O) but the whole concept was that one variable is pretty but like  a library that holds a bunch of characters - words, numbers, pictures, and then a list function pulls these characters out of the "library" and displays them when the user asks for it.