Tuesday, February 26, 2008

27th Lesson... Takin' advantage of Python

Today's lecture covered making use of Python's default replies to our input codes. Using them we can shorten our programming lines, and create a more efficient and easy to understand programs. Ahhh so many terms and technicalities to memorize~~

Sunday, February 24, 2008

26th... Lesson: I DREW A HOUSE

And not just a house... 5 GRAND HOUSES! woot! Anyhoo, today I dealt with the usage of multiple parameters and understood most of it. I was a bit slow at creating the multiple houses and it took me a while to figure it out... but I did it! Ah, good lesson: not too hard and not too easy.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

25th Lesson... Got me sum' work done!

Unlike last lesson, this time I actually covered what we needed to do. The quiz was brief and unexpected, but I managed to pass it. Today we got to see the logic python uses, and it really reminds me of sumthin' we did in geometry... Oh, and I have detention after this class. Bummer.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

24th Lesson... FRICKIN' PROGRAMS NOT RESPONDING!!!

Today I could hardly get any work done because each time I Tried out my gasp program Python froze and a bajillion other gasps popped up... That's why I'm going to do it on my mac today and post the results in my blog. Hopefully, i will not be lost doing other things on the computer and actually do this assignment. ZZZ Task Manager is probably the biggest reason I chose MAC OS X over XP.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

23rd Lesson... ZOMAGOSH! ART IN PYTHON!

After finishing up my number program, I was introduced to basic shape and line art in Python. I was quite surprised they to see the gasp plug in draw up the figures I wrote in. It makes me sick to think what professional programmers had to write up to even run a proper script for Paint. ~~ hard art

Sunday, February 17, 2008

21st Lesson... The joy of duplicating text and empty lines!

This lesson I learned how to manipulate the escape keys in order to print a specific number of lines. I didn't get most of the technical explanations and required a lot of help from neighbors. But I now I understand how it works and why, so its all good. Today was a good lesson, it left me thirsty for more programming.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

20th Lesson... Much Ado About Python

Err... today we covered a lot of chapter 3 in class. The functions are now making more sense, but the Bruce Bruce bit is still really confusing. I still don't get parameters and what they are, but I am confident with basic functions. The whole concept is now making more sense to me... yeah.