Thursday, December 20, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #54

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced developing my solution are to choose between showing the amount of money the player in every question or just have have it increase everytime the question changed. We chose to keep it in every question because it's more simple that way.

Monday, December 17, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #53

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: South Korean scientist have cloned Turkish Agnora cats with a red fluorescent protein produced by manipulation their genes, which makes thme give off an eerie glow when hit by certain ultraviolet light. The cloned cat were giving of a red glow when hit with the ultraviolet light from their ears, noses and other places where fur cover is minimal. Although they do not glow in the dark.

Friday, December 14, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #52

Q: What you have done in your project today?

A: We have coded most of the function that we think we need plus the function for each questions. We have also planned a little bit more detail on how the game will come out look like.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #51

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced during figuring what game should I do for the next project are to choose between a game "who wants to be a millionaire?" and sudoku. We chose the first one because if we going to do sudoku we need to learn how to create a grid first but we haven't yet so we decide to go with the first one which only require the knowledge that we already have.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #50

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter while coding my program is that the outcome number of dice roll is too high and so the player never gets the guess right. I overcame the problem by change the equation and it fixs the problem.

Monday, December 10, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #49

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: IBM has made a breakthrough in coverting electrical signals into light pulses which allow them to connect hundreds or thousand of procession cores on a tiny chip because there's no more need of wires required to connect them. This technology can be as much as 100 times faster and use 10 times less power than wires. And one pf the most advanced ships there is today is IBM's Cell processor that is in the Sony PS3, which has nine cores, or "brains." IBM said that in the future tiny supercomputers on a chip could expend as little energy as a light bulb, compared with today's supercomputers, which can use as much energy as powering hundreds of homes.

Friday, December 7, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #48

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced while coding in the more-function program are to choose between using for loop or while loop when I have to repeat something. I choose among them by trying out which one will works or work betters.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #47

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encountered while coding my program is that I was unable to run my program. I overcome that by found out that I can't use the same word that I used to call the sub function in main function, and so I changed it and then my problem was solved.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #46

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my program is that I've done coded half of the second program that I need to turn in tommorow. The things that are needed to be completed in next class for me is just to completed the rest of the program and turn it in.

Monday, December 3, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #45

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: A high school student discoverd and extremly rare mummified disnosaur in North Dakota that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin musles. Although it is described as "mummified," this 65 million year old dinosaur doesn't have the leather-skinned human mummies like those from ancient tombs in Egypt. Instead long ago, this disnosaur's soft tissue transformed into mineralized rock, which preserving it for the ages.

Friday, November 30, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #44

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I face during coding my program are to choose between using || or && in the condition statement in loop. I chose to choose || because by using && it's make the statement either always true or always false which is not what I want and so || would be a better choice.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #43

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter while coding my program is that I couldn't make the program correctly follow the case where if the user get the answer wrong it will trigger the if/then statement. I planned to overcome this problem by changing the sign in control statement.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #42

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my program is that I almost complete my first mini program, Attacking a target, I only have to change something on the code and I'll be done. The thing that I need to complete in the next class is the second mini program project, or at least get start on it and get through more than half.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #41

Q: Provide yourself an example (not one from your instructor) of how you use a particular command that will help jog your memory in the future when you need that command again. You must provide a little code as well as a written explanation with this one.

A: void getInfo(double &f, double &l)
{
count<<"Enter your first name"<<>
cin>>f;
count<<"Enter your last name"<<>
cin>>l;
}
This code is a function code, it's allow me to separate task into little subsections of code that I then can call them from main. It help me separate the codes into sections which make it easier to work with.

Monday, November 26, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #40

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology whose theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale. One nanometer is one billionth of a metter. Example of the nanotechnology is Buckminsterfullerene C60, also known as the buckyball, is the simplest of the carbon structures known as fullerenes. The first use of the distinguishing concpepts in 'nanotechnology' was in an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Scored thru 11/25 (20 pts possible) - see Edline for your score tomorrow evening.

Monday, November 19, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #39

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: Comcast corporation has been accused of blocking or at least throttling traffic from subscrubers trying to share files through peer-to-peer network for some time now. It has claimed that peer-to-peer traffic comprises a significant portion of total internet traffic so Comcast has limited bandwidth available for its millions of customers and has reportedly cut off service for some users who used more than their share of bandwidth. And so it was recently sued by a California man for interfering in file sharing.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #38

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my solution is added 5% tax sale calculation in to my code, put in the heading, and improved some codes and visual in my program. The things that are need to be completed in the next class are to put comments through out my program and to turn it in.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #37

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that faced in developing my solution is to either choose between using the switch/case or if/then. I chose switch/case because the codes have to deal with both upper and lower cases so switch/case would be a better choice and better suite for my choice.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #36

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter while developing my solution is that I could not add the amount entered to the total amount. I planned to overcome this problem by instead of using while loop, I'm going to use for loop instead, then changes some codes and maybe I'll fix this problem.

Monday, November 12, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #35

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: Intel releases it first 45nm processor for desktop as a part of Penryn family, the Intel® Core ™2 Extreme Processor QX9650 (today 11/12/07). In this newly chip there is 820 million transistors, which is their biggest breakthrough yet. With this new Hi-k silicon technology the chip will be 20% to 50% faster than Intel's previous chip releases in general purpose applications and 10% to 40% faster in technical applications, multimedia and games. It also enable a 50% higher larger L2 cache and improve the level of Energy-Efficient Performance to the next levels.

Friday, November 9, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #34

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my solution is that I completed the second loop problem on the practice work sheet. The thing that I need to be completed in the next class is the last problem or the third problem on the practice work sheet.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #33

Q: How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

A: I tested my program by run it. The results were the program opened up but nothing is shown so the results were bad. But I went back to the code and found out what's wrong and fixed it and run it again and this time the program ran perfectly as I wanted it to.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #32

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I had to face during developing my solution are to choose between using for loop or while loop. I choose among them by asking myself if I know the number of repetition I want in advance or not, I knew the number so I chose for loop because it's used when I know the number of repetition.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #31

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter while developing my solution is I was unable to figure out what will appear in the console window by given codes. I planned to overcome this problem by try the code on the computer and run it but the direction said that I can't do that so I guess the answer instead.

Friday, November 2, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #30

Q: What do you plan to study for quiz?

A: I planed to study the notes that I took in class about if - then statement and swtich and cases. I also planed to study the review sheet and maybe look at some sample codes.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Scored through 10/31. All blogs from this point forward are second marking period.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #29

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progresses that I made today on my program are I completed codding my selection program on level 3 and I have also did parts of level4. In the next class I will need to complete the whole level4 and find some ASCII graphics put them in, create a heading, and capture the out put.

REFLECTION QUESTION #28

Q: How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

A: I tested my program by first look the codes over to see that I have every thing correctly in it's places and add anything that I think it should be in there. The results of that testing was good and my program ran smoothly fine.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #27

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter whiled developing my solution is that I was unable to run the program because I have used the same integer for the case more than once. I planed to find a way to fix it but for now I just use another number for that case instead.

Monday, October 22, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #26

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: IBM and Mediatek confirm that they are jointly launching a research and development project to develop ultra-fast chipsets. This project will use IBM's new millimeter wave radio chips and package technology with Mediatek's expertise in digital baseband and video processing chips. They said that this chip will allow consumbers to wirelessly transfer large multimedia data files around their home and offices in seconds. They planned to join together in the length of three years. IBM planned to commercialize products resulting from the joint development, and Mediatek will decide on the brand name.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

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

Saturday, October 20, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #25

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced during developing my solution are to choose between using switch/case or using if then statement. I choose to use switch/case because they are less complicate and easier to for me to work with. I also think that they allow me to arrange my codes in a better structure for easy to understand.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #24

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my solution is almost completely write out the layout or how and what will show up on the story of the final program on a paper. In the next class the thing that needed to be complete is just for me to put my final thought on it and then start coding it.

Monday, October 15, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #23

Q: Summary of what you read.


A: Hitachi today announed that they are wroking on packing more data into the same sized hard disks with what is now the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disks. While others are starting to turn to solid state drives or hybrid drives with advantages of moving parts, faster reponse times and less power consumption, Hitachi continues to make advances on the HDD front stating it continues to provide a better capcity to cost ratio than other technologies. Hitachi have been able to reduce the size of the recording heads to be down in the 30-50 nanometter range with their new technology. Hitachi said that they maybe able to actually ship this 4TB HDD produts in 2009. And reach its full potential of 4TB HDD in a desktop in 2011.

Friday, October 12, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #22

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today on my Selection Project was the ideas of how the story might be and the plan plus the choices for the story. The things that I need to complete in the next class are to write the actual code and further more plan about my intro and more choices and try to put the use those ideas to the program.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #21

Q: How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

A: I tested my program by completed all the coding first then run the program and if it doesn't work then I will go back and fix it. The results of that testing was great, my program and all the coding inside it work perfectly as I wanted them to.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #20

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced during developing my solution are to choose between using ';' or ':' when using the switch and case. At first I thought I was suppose to use ';' but then I realized when my program didn't run because I wasn't suppose to use ';' and so knew it was wrong and it was suppose to be ':' and by knowing that mistake I was able to choose to right choice.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #19

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?


A: The problems that I encounted while developing my solution was that on the work sheet, I didn't know a solution to one of the questions. I overcame it by asking my friend and go back to review my notes for the solution.

Monday, October 8, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #18

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: McDonald is planned to launch free Wi-Fi service across its 1200 outles in the U.K. They said that his will make the company the largest provider of free wireless Internet access in the country. They will also upgrade their outlets interiors with designer furnishings. At the same time, they will inculde more menu for healthier options. They hopes this service will attrack more businesspeople into it outlets. They estimates that a regular hot spot user who pays to log on for an hour per week will save as much as $530 per year on premium Wi-Fi charges.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

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

Friday, October 5, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #17

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that faced during developing my solutin are to choose between using the word 'letter' or just 'a' to be use for char. I realized that it would be easier to use the word 'letter' instead of 'a' because by using 'a' it could easily get mixed up with the output in that program, which deals with a-z and numbers.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #16

Q: How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

A: I tested my program completed all the coding first then I clicked the debug button to test it. The results were great, usually the first time I tested each program it pretty much have everything that I need on it and then there's usually some visual or output's look that I didn't like, so I just when back to my code and fix and add some stuff into it so it would be perfect.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #15

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: The progress that I made today was I completed the mini program project up until number seven. In the next class, I will need to finish up the last two or three parts that I have left.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #14

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encountered while developing my solution is I could not get two numbers to square or square root. I overcame the problem by using the double instead of int because when square or square root numbers, it will not work with int.

Monday, October 1, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #13

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: Australia has invested some time and money into creaing a free online game that aims to tackle youth mental health issues. This is the world-first mental health game that is also free. The game allows the players to relive instances in their life so they'd turn out differently. According to the site, there are 15 story lines with 10 different characters, with no right or wrong answers and the experience ends when you want it to.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #12

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choice that I faced during developing my solution was to choose between using int or double. I chose to use double instead of int because it would be allow the user to input decimal numbers and output decimal numbers, which is a better choice rather than int.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #11

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encountered whil developing my solution was I was unable to multiply to number together. I overcame my problem my using double or int instead of using string because first I did not realize that I couldn't use string in calculation, but after I went back into my note I remembered.

Monday, September 24, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #10

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: The One Laptop Per Child project had planned to build over 100 million laptops per year and give them away for free to those poor countries. There was also a "Give 1 Get 1" program, which each time an American buy a laptop, another laptop will be donated to a child in another country. The cost per laptop is now $200 but they hope by the end of 2009 they could reduce the price to $100. This green laptop was designed to withstand a drop from 5 feet, frozen in refrigerators, and heated in ovens at 140 degrees in high humidity. This laptop also can powered by solar powers.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Scored on 9/23/07. Check edline for grade posting tomorrow evening.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #9

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?


A: The choices that I faced in developing my solution are to either answer the question the in form of structure chart or in sentences. I chose to do a structure chart because I thought it would be easy to understand.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #8

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them?/ How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encounter while developing my solution is I didn't understand one of the vocabulary words that I have to define because the word given didn't match what it has in the book. I overcomed my problem by asking the teacher if the word that I think it is of the book mean the same as the word on the work sheet.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #7

Q: Are there any specific tips you would give to someone else tackling the same problem? How would what you suggest benefit that person in solving the problem?

A: Yes there is a tips that I would like to give someone else, which is instead of using setfill to make spaces between each information, use the tab command instead. This will benefit that person because setfill is taking to long to do because each line doesn't have the same number of letters. Also, using tab will automatically align that word to the column above so you won't have to count how much spaces to put in setfill in order to put a word in the same alignment.

Monday, September 17, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #6

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: AMD announced that they will sell the first Tri-Core Processor. They said that they will be breaking into a market into which Intel cannot follow with its current architecture. The benefit of Tri-Core is that being able to hit higher clock speeds because of the removed heat from the disabled or missing core. Also the benefit of being a reasonable price between dual and quad-core. They said that three core makes more sense because two cores can be set to work on the dual-core optimised program, while the third runs all the other background software and operating system out of the way of the main task. They think that this will be a great option for gamers as long as the price is right.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Score thru 9/14 6/4

Friday, September 14, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #5

Q: What progress did you make today on your solution? What needs to be completed next class?

A: Today I finished up my first project and have everything done and saved it in my document. In the next class, there's nothing needed to be complete beside to turn in my project into the hand in folder.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #4

Q: How did you go about testing your program? What were the results of that testing?

A: I tested my program by click the debug button and at first it didn't work so I went back to check my codes and found out that I left a endl in cin line which caused to not work properly. After I fixed that I tested it again and the result was perfect, the program worked as I wanted it to.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #3

Q: What choices did you face in developing your solution, and how did you choose among them?

A: The choices that I faced in developing my solution were to choose what name would I use for each string because if it too long it's going to be too complicated but if it's too short it's going to be confusing and all mixed up. So I decided to use only the initials of unimportant or easy to remember word and combined with the whole word that hard or easy to get mixed up together. Ex. grade of first period = gfirstpd is easier to understand than = gstpd.
Scored through 9/10 (4/2 pts).

Monday, September 10, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #2

Q: Summary of what you read

A: Valve's Counter-Strike made in number one in the top five most popular game communities with just over 174,665 active servers and 276,552 gamers playing online at the research was conducted. More than 9.423 billion minutes of play time per month.
Came in second was RunScape with about 673 minutes per week of play time.
Third is the World of Warcraft with players spent time about 2.1 million hours online each day.
Came in forth is the Sim with millions of copy sold.
And lastly the fifth place is Halo with about 12,706 players online at the time the reserach was conducted.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #1

Q: What problems did you encounter while developing your solution? How do you plan to overcome them? How did you overcome them?

A: The problem that I encountered was that I could not make a new line to show while I was making the letter. I planned to find a code which create a new line. And so I overcome it by went back into my note and found that code, then my problem was sloved.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Thanks - you're all linked up and ready to go.