Doo-wop!

Today we spent the class learning about if statements and loops. It was actually not that much of a jump from turing syntax. The note was clear and understandable, and I learned a lot.

Thanks for the input

We learned how to get input from users in a note today! I've been waiting for that quite some time.
Though it's a bit tricky, and I don't know all of it, I'm still pretty happy.
It seemed so much easier to do all of this stuff in Turing.

Fatal Error

Today we discovered a really major error we made in our tester. (Well, we didn't really even have to make a tester, but anyways) We accidentally created variables in the wrong classes, and it diverted our program from the start. Luckily we found it out and are now on the right track.
And apparently Mr. Arkin has a bone to pick with me.

Boolean!

Today we discovered how hard it was dealing with boolean methods. We discovered that the original boolean question, which was if someone was a minor or major, was very hard to do so we changed it into a string. Then came the trouble with strings that we're still getting through.

Trial and error

We have started trying our class out with the tester. We got a lot of problems which were corrected as we basically taught ourselves how to program it.
I also got a detention today that I don't deserve at all.

Class tester

Today we wrapped up our student class to the best of our abilities and tried to make a tester. This was all extremely difficult to us due to lack of knowledge of Java. My group and I were amazed and awed at how Elias and his group could get their code done seemingly without confusion.

Code-off

Mr. Arkin set us up on a java code off to make our own class. It was kind of exhilerating because I expected to not know how to do anything, but I was actually able to do many things. We didn't completely finish the class, but we did a lot more than I expected, due to our lack of java knowledge.

MARCH BREAKKKKKKK :D

Today was the final day before March break. Besides my excitement and joy, I managed to clear up most of the problems I had with the enhanced calculator thanks to Mr. Arkin. I hope to finish the enhanced calculator very soon.

Upgrade

Today we finally finished off everyone's calculator class. I was kind of surprised to see that people still weren't done the calculator because I finished it a day or two ago and I thought I had a lot of trouble. Enhanced calculator doesn't seem too hard, though. A few methods really confused me.

First Absence

Today was the first time Mr. Arkin has been absent so far. We worked for half the period, then gave ourselves some free time to relax.

Calculator Class

Today we completed a class that the grade 12 class finished just a couple of days ago! I was pretty impressed with how close our work is with theirs, though it is a bit tough keeping behind them when they have so much more knowledge than us.

Purse is done!

Today I finally finished the Purse code. I had a little trouble with it in the beggining because I was confused at if the string was an object or a class.
We also took a note informing us about datatypes and other things which made Java a lot clearer.

Purse

Today we almost wrapped up the purse assignment. Mr. Arkin showed us a way to test if our Purse class works with another tester class. I still haven't gotten my code compiled properly, but hopefully by tomorrow I'll be done.

Alright, getting lost again

I'm losing my confidence in this Java stuff again. It seems so complicated! I wonder how much of a grip on it I'll have by mid semester.

Also, I hope we have sufficient time to work on our other assignment.

Video killed the computer science star

We finally got our first group project! Okay, I'm not usually excited for projects, but I LOVE projects that require us to make a video. Right off the bat we got started and laid down the plot and got really good ideas going. We gave everyone their assigned roles and got down to business pretty fast. I hope this project will be as fun as I'm imagining it to be right now.