March4
This week we started working with finches, a little computer creature that does actions based on our input through coding in JGrasp. During the sample program what happened was that the finch would do certain things based on how you manuvered the creature. For example, when you tilted the nose of the finch upwards, the program would continue to run, where the color of the nose would change and finish the program until it hit the end and then the nose of the finch would just constantly change colors (default mode). My partner and I attempted to get the Finch to do things to our bidding and we managed to scrap togetehr a program that got it to do what we wanted it to do before spring break. Earlier in the week we also went over sorting labs and the different types of sorting methods like bobo sort, switch sort, and other types of sorts. WE were shown different examples of the different sort methods and it helped get the concept of how all of the sortsr worked. This didn't really help with the code though because although I'm a visual learner, the code doesn't do anything to help me with my visual needs.
March 11
Over spring break I went to Italy with the school band. We went to Florence, Rome, Pisa, and a few other tourist attractions. Seeing the Colosseum Leaning Tower of Pisa, and a few of Michelangelo's art pieces, it was a great experience. Europe is so much different from America where people are much closer to each other and they seem a lot more closely knit than in America where you have to use a vehicle to get anywhere.
