Computer Science 20S

Project #1: Jeopardy

2006-04-23T16:38:00.000-07:00

COMPUTER SCIENCE 20S – PROJECT #1
“JEOPARDY”

Your job here is going to be to create the most REALISTIC AND CREATIVE game of jeopardy using all your knowledge of V.B. so far. Here are some things MUST to be included in your game:

- Your board must have at least THREE CATEGORIES.

- Your board must have winnings of $100, $200, $300, $400 and $500 for each category.

- You must also have a “DOUBLE JEOPARDY” section that is to commence once regular jeopardy is completed, with THREE NEW CATEGORIES and winnings of $200, $400, $600, $800 and $1000 for each category.

- In each of the two “parts” of jeopardy you must have a daily double, where the player gets to make a wager of part of all of their earnings so far before they attempt the question.

- There will also be a FINAL JEOPARDY where each contestant is asked to make a wager of their earnings and then have 30 SECONDS to come up with an answer. The winner will be declared after that.

- When each general question is being asked (ala Alex Trebec) there will be 8 SECONDS for any player to “try” and answer.

- Now, since there is only one mouse, there truly wont be any “competition” as who answers the question first, just come up with a way to differentiate which player answers first, and have that player get the money if they’re right.

- If that player is incorrect, then the other player still has an opportunity to answer, time pending.

- This game will be a TWO-PLAYER game only.

- For each new question to come up, you will have to find some way to manually “select” each question from your “board.”

- You can make up each of the questions yourself, just make sure they have ONE-WORD ANSWERS.

- Players should be referenced by their names through out the game.

- As a reminder, this project will most definitely require you to come in for extra time outside of regular class hours, either in the mornings or on your spares or at lunch.

RUBRIC:

> How user-friendly is your game? / 10
> Does it “look” and “feel” realistic? / 10
> Construction and look of the board. / 10
> Player reference throughout the game. / 5
> How questions are asked. / 5
> How questions are selected. / 5
> Transition between questions / 5
> Cumulative winnings are functioning properly for each player. / 10
> Transition to ‘Double Jeopardy”. / 5
> All “times” working accordingly. / 10
> How “visual” is everything? / 10
> Player names, cumulative winnings, …
> What happens to a question on the board, once its been asked? / 5
> Effort, neatness of code, constants, organization of form(s). / 10

TOTAL: / 100

DUE: TUESDAY, MAY. 23, 2006

Who's the scribe today???

2006-03-22T13:44:00.000-08:00

.... O.o
o.O

Long weekend post!

2006-03-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

Hope you guys had a productive class on Thursday while I was away sick. Just a reminder that "What's on the Menu?" is due next week and from what I saw on Wednesday, people are progressing quite nicely. I have to say that I think that you guys have come a long way since the beginning of the course. The "visual" part of VB is not too hard to learn, the labels, command buttons, list boxes, ...etc. It's the actual programming part that involves the difficult concepts of coding. Things like If-Then statements, For-Loops, Functions are the fundamental building blocks of programming. From what I can see in the past few weeks you guys seem to be grasping most of these basic building blocks.
So overall I just wanted to say that I'm proud of what I'm seeing so far and to keep working hard and stick with it. Programming is an art and you have, and will have more, many little tools to use along with basic fundamentals that you, the artist must decide which tool(s) to use given a task. Just like an artist is master of creating depth, fading, 3-D imaging, sharpness, and other features individually, he or she must use their knowledge about art to decide which one of their "tools" to use for each painting. For those of you who like sports, such as basketball, I played in highschool, here at DMCI and I still play organized basketball all the time. When I have the ball and I want to get past my check, I've got to decide, in a matter of 5 seconds or less, should I drive, make a jumpshot, post-up, fake a shot, pass the ball away or wait for a pick. The concept is still the same. The only difference is I have less than seconds to decide which "tool" is best for the job at hand.
Have a great weekend folks and see you on Monday!!

Nothing Really to Scribe About...

2006-03-15T17:51:00.000-08:00

Well... lets see.... today was a work period so there is nothing really new to tell... We have tomorrow and Monday then this is due... Well I hate to make a post this short but I really have nothing at all to say... Well I don't know what else, there isn't really a scribe list so I don't know who's done it this cycle already... So I guess the next scribe is Margaret... Well good luck everybody!

Sweet I'm Scribe XD

2006-03-14T16:11:00.000-08:00

Today we got our new assignment it is called ... "What's on the menu?" . Well , in this assignment we are give a couple tasks .

First we have to make it password protected . This part is probably The easiest part . I'm not exactly sure if I can type some code for this assignment so I'm not going to bother . For this part make sure that it is NOT case sensitive . Also make sure that the password is "MENU"

*hint hint * You have to use Ucase()

The second thing I is that We must use 4 different forms .One for the Math marks menu option.

For this option you must allow the user to enter three test marks and the prgram should find the AVERAGE , MEDIAN , and , the last on I forgot . This I find my be a problem when I start it . I thing for this one at home you should plan it out if you don't have Visual Basic just in so you can pass this one without much problems .

The second thing we must do in this assignment is the Easy as MNO ? This one should be the easier than the Test thing because we have done something like this . But this time we must stop the user from putting more than exatly five name in the list boxes . That is pretty easy.

The third is the "The Greeting" menu option . This one require you knowlegde of using the & function also our lesson from yesturday using loops . For information on that read the last post made but Mary Ann not Mr.Malandrakis . O.o For this one we have to make the user type how long their name is and an input box poping up asking for the letters in there name I'm guessing one by one . Then a msgbox saying , "Hello usersname ...". For this one suggest using what Mr.M told us about IsNumeric function . I would explain it but I still don't fully understand it .

Now for the the Introduction you have to make a nice form that will make the user think the program is cool I guess . So you have to make stuff move and use the right colors and make it like awesome .

The final thing is to end the program *cough cough* ( Use end on the select case for the menu . Just Type End there and that part is done ) .

Remember Use lots of menu for almost everything and you will be fine this project should be easy to finish but time consuming . You also have only 3 days to complete this so use your lunch times and Mornings to get this done . I mean waking up at 6:00 to make it to school isn't gonna kill anyone ... At least I hope so X( ... . That is all .

The next scribe I will choose is .. . I dont know maybe Graeme or someone XD

Is Michael today's scribe?

2006-03-13T16:53:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

Based on the last short scribe below I'm assuming Michael is tonight's scribe. Now the reason I'm posting today is because today's class is a VERY IMPORTANT one. If by chance Michael dosen't make a post by 8:00 pm at the latest, could someone please be the "fill-in" scribe for tonight and make a post covering today's class? That would be greatly appreciated.
Also don't forget to check out the "Built-in VB Functions" link in the "Links" section below. If you recall I mentioned on Friday that this was up. It includes all a lot of little conversion functions and so on. Very much worth checking out as you will end using most of these at some point. Have a great night folks!!

For...Loops

2006-03-13T16:06:00.000-08:00

Today Mr. Malandrakis introduced something new to us in class called For Loops. It's used when you know exactly how many times you want to do something.

Before we started working on the code, we were told to put a list box, a command button, and a menu on our form. Our menu had to be called For Loop, and we had to have 7 sub menus.

First step was to declare our variables.

Dim n, x As Integer 'DUMMY COUNTERS USED AS LOOP COUNTERS
Dim userNumber As Integer

We're using "n" and "x" as the variables since it's easier to type rather than using "counter".

Next we needed to bring up the click event for the command button, which we named "cmdClear" because that would clear what was in the listbox.

Private Sub cmdClear_Click()

lstClear.Clear

End Sub

Now next we had to bring up the event for the sub menu. I named mine "mnuLoop". Under that line of code we typed in the select case statement.

Private Sub mnuL_Click(Index As Integer)

Select Case Index

Case 0...

...Case 6

End Case

Now this is where the actual looping begins. For the first Case (Case 0) we had to make a message box pop up 5 times. To do this, you have to first type in "For", then your variable which is "n". when looping you want to put the number that you want to start off with, and the number you want to end at. In this case we want the loop to start at 1 and end at 5. To end the code you'll have to type in "Next n". This is what the code looks like..

Case 0

For n = 1 To 5 'LOOP WHICH EXECUTES 5 TIMES MESSAGE BOX SHOWS UP 5 TIMES

MsgBox "Hi"

Next n 'WHEN PUTTING n IT LETS YOU INCREASE BY ONE EACH TIME.

Oh..and you have to remember to indent..I can't really do that here on blogger..

For case 1 we want to add the loop counter into the list box. for this one, we were told to make the loop go from 1 to 7.

Case 2 'NUMBERS FROM 1 TO 7

For n = 1 To 7 'LOOP EXECUTING 7 TIMES

lstNumbers.AddItem n 'ADDING THE LOOP COUNTER TO THE LISTBOX EACH TIME THROUGH THE LOOP

Next n

Case 2, we had to make the loop count from 1 to 15, but by 2's. since it's starting at one it would be counting by odd numbers. (ex. 1-3-5-7-9...15). When going up by a certain number you have to add in the word "step" in your code. When you add "step" it means to increase by that much each time in the loop.

Case 2 'ODD NUMBERS

For n = 1 To 15 Step 2

lstClear.AddItem n

Next n

Case 3: We wanted the user to enter a number of their choice in an inputbox.

Case 3 'ASK ME

userNumber = InputBox("PLEASE ENTER A NUMBER", "NUMBERS")

'FOR LOOP SHOWING ALL EVEN NUMBERS STARTING AT ZERO
'AND STOPPING AT THE NUMBER ENTERED BY THE USER.

For n = 0 To userNumber Step 2

lstClear.AddItem n

Next n

Case 4: We had to put a loop inside another loop...

Case 4 'NESTED LOOPS

'IN NESTED FOR...LOOPS THE INSIDE LOOP EXECUTES
'COMPLETELY FOR EVERY "STEP" OF THE OUTSIDE LOOP.

For n = 1 To 3 'OUTSIDE LOOP EXECUTING 3 TIMES

For x = 1 To 4 'INSIDE LOOP EXECUTING 4 TIMES

lstClear.AddItem "HI"

Next x 'END OF INSIDE LOOP

Next n 'END OF OUTSIDE LOOP

'"HI" WILL SHOW UP 12 TIMES IN THE LISTBOX.

In case 5 were to start the loop from 100 to 1 and go down by one. Also, to make it divisible by 3. When counting down by 1 you would have to add a negative sign (-) in front of the number. In this loop we had to include an If statement.

Case 5 'multiples of

For n = 100 To 1 Step -1

If n Mod 3 = 0 Then

lstClear.AddItem n

End If

Next n

Last one. In Case 6 we had to make the loop go from 16000 to 1 and go by multiples of 27. Your basically doing the same thing that you did in Case 5, except your changing some bumbers.

Case 6 'multiples of 27 between 1 and 16000

For n = 16000 To 1 Step -1

If n Mod 27 = 0 Then

lstClear.AddItem n

End If

Next n

End Select

For the remainder of the class we looked at the solution for "Motion in the Ocean" We looked at Graeme's because he completed it and got his to work out. GOOD JOB GRAEME !

And that's what we learned and did today. I hope I explained things well and didn't leave out anything important..If I did, I'm real sorry >.<

Next scribe will be Micheal. Since he really wants to to be the next scribe. =D

XD Can I be Scribe Next ???

2006-03-11T08:54:00.000-08:00

Can I be scribe next after Mary Ann lol . =]

NEXT SCRIBE IS....

2006-03-10T19:43:00.000-08:00

Mary Ann..

SHORT POST.. SCRIBING WISH COMES TRUE

2006-03-10T15:49:00.000-08:00

MY WISH CAME TRUE.. I'M THE SCRIBE FOR TODAY ahaha..

well as for today's class, I believe that we got today's whole class to finish working on our Practice Program called MOTION IN THE OCEAN.. hope everyone has they're program running smoothly and perfectly.. well as for me.. I have some minor adjustments to do.. and for those who didn't get to finish.. don't you worry.. Mr. Malandrakis will go over the solution with us next class on MONDAY.. just to think spring break's coming up soon.. well that's pretty much it.. THE NEXT SCRIBE IS.......

YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT.. I'LL POST UP WHO THE NEXT SCRIBE IS WHEN I COME BACK!!!

SEE YOU ALL ON MONDAY.. HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.. TAKE CARE.. BYE

scribing again...

2006-03-09T14:33:00.000-08:00

Just worked on your practice program, "MOTION IN THE OCEAN"

My project didn't really get off the ground. I don't think that I will get it done. Harder than I thought it would be.

Nothing really to say....

the next scribe will be....
Scott

The M scribe

2006-03-08T14:02:00.000-08:00

As everyone know that i'm a lazy person and i can't remember much from our class, so i'll just write as much as i can remember.

Today we went into yesterdays class lesson, where MR. M gave me some time to get our code working. Then MR. M gave me a practice program to do called Motion to da ocean, where we need to make the image move, enlarge, reduce and in any spot in the form.

At the end of the class, MR. M talk to us about MC Donald foods, where the have bad burgers and take them 31 second to cook it. He said that if we have to order fast food, we should go to Burger King instead of MC Donald.

this is all i can remember, if i missed anything just give me a comment and i'll add it.

well guys, thats it for today bye bye.

The Next Scribe will be The one and only.................................................................................................. Masta "PAULO"

Opps

2006-03-07T17:29:00.000-08:00

opps

next scribe will be Joung

ERROR

2006-03-07T17:27:00.000-08:00

He has already did scribe yo. Pick someone else

ok

'Dim Jian as scribe 'can only find that in VB 2000.6 and the VB u using now is VB 6.0?

2006-03-07T16:15:00.001-08:00

Dim Sum as Chinese Food 'good to eat
Dim Thang, Indrew as string ' already did scribe this cycle
Dim NEXTSCRIBE as string
Const ERROR = "He has already did scribe yo. Pick someone else"

inputbox ("enter the name you wish to be next scribe")

inputbox = Next scribe + next scribe 'oh dear, i dont even know if that is 
    'how you store the name.

if NextScribe = Thang, Indrew then

msg ERROR
end if

Form Load

'Today was once again those days i feel out of place.
'I don't know if i should copy the codes or lesson to the teacher. I end up copying so i kind of have 'no idea what happen today.

'any ways today we learn about motion
'making a picture of our choice enlarge, reduce, move up move down. ' i think hahaha. like i 'said earlier i was too busy copying.
'also make it stop and go back to the starting point, and one more thing and is to make it go 'random places i anywhere in the form

'all those options are use in a menu
'heres something we did today yo!

Const IMAGEWIDTH = 1755
Const IMAGEHEIGHT = 1760

Const FORM_WIDTH = 7575     'WIDTH OF FORM
Const FORM_HEIGHT = 7560    'HEIGHT OF FORM

Const HOME = 0              'HOME POSITION FROM (0.0)

Const RANDOMPOINT = 3000

Dim xCoord As Double
Dim yCoord As Double

Dim H_and_V_CHANGE As Integer 'constant to represent how many twips vertically
                      'and horizontally it movies each interval of the timmer.
                  
Private Sub mnuOptionx_Click(Index As Integer)

Select Case Index

Case 0 'enlarge

 tmrEnlargeReduce.Enabled = True
 H_and_V_CHANGE = 120

Case 1  'reduce
 H_and_V_CHANGE = -120

Case 2  'move

 xCoord = InputBox("enter an x-coordinete", "Horiantal", Val("250"))
 yCoord = InputBox("enter a Y-coordinete", "vertical", Val("250"))

 imgX.Move xCoord, yCoord

Case 3 ' reset

 imgX.Move HOME, HOME

Case 4 ' let it move on it own

 tmrMove.Enabled = True
  H_and_V_CHANGE = 120

Case 5 ' random number

 imgX.Move FORM_WIDTH * Rnd, FORM_HEIGHT * Rnd

End Select

End Sub

Private Sub tmrEnlargeReduce_Timer()


If imgX.Width <= FORM_WIDTH And imgX.Height <= FORM_HEIGHT Then

imgX.Width = imgX.Width + H_and_V_CHANGE     'enlarge, reduce width
imgX.Height = imgX.Height + H_and_V_CHANGE   'enlarge, reduce width

End If

If imgX.Width < style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Then   ' this line of code is wrong 
tmrEnlargeReduce.Enabled = True
End If


End Sub

Private Sub tmrMove_Timer()

imgX.Left = imgX.Left + H_and_V_CHANGE

If imgX.Left <= RANDOMPOIT Then

imgX.Top = imgX.Top + H_and_V_CHANGE

Else

imgX.Top = imgX.Top - H_and_V_CHANGE

End If

End Sub

'okay guys and girls, that is it for today so just let me finish this form up.

ok people i will decide that the next scibe will be indrew for picking me.


end sub

To see what my form look like when is play click here.

2006-03-06T19:19:00.000-08:00

WE WERE ALLOWED TO LOOK THROUGH OUR CLASS LESSONS FOLDERS DURING THE PROGRAMMING TEST??!! WOW.. MAYBE NEXT TIME I SHOULD REALLY PAY MORE ATTENTION.. OR ASK....

iBLOG

2006-03-06T16:34:00.000-08:00

I am the scribe once again! I will procced to explain what happened today. Today we did nothing much but a TEST! The test was mainly on some basic concepts with the first few pages being exactly multiple choices followed by fill in the blanks with the last page of filling the required criteria.

THE TEST IS DIVIDED INTO 2 PARTS!

1) Written part ^
2) Programming part

(Prior to the programming part of the test you must hand in your test.)
After you have handed it in then you proceed onto opening the computer screen and start programming filling the required criteria out.

All programming test allows you to have access to class lessons / notes.

My POV: I believe the test was ok, the stuff was based on what we did, so it shouldnt have been that hard but then again the programming part of the test was frustrating, certain aspects of the code did not fall into play and it was pretty time consuming. Maybe Mr.M should give us a clue on what the test will be on to better prepare ourselves?

Meanwhile ... I will stick with pc sci and see what happens. Cited by Mr. M. " It's like learning a new language, give it some time."

As for class lessons maybe Mr. M. should tell us a day ahead prior to the lesson.

That's it for now. The next scribe is Jan because he didnt scribe yet .

Have fun!

Double Scribe

2006-03-04T14:19:00.000-08:00

Two days ago, Margaret will suppose to be scribe. She was sick so Mr. Malandrakis asked me to be scribe. But I was too busy. I hope I can make it up by doing the first ever double scribe. Here I go....

March 2nd

Today, we learned to use a new tool called "Select Case." Select Case it like an IF statement but more organized and used in different occasions.

Here is an example of how to use Select Case.

Select Case expression

Case value1
Block of one or more VB statements
Case value2
Block of one or more VB Statements
Case value3
Block of one or more VB statements

End Select

Another neat function, we learned was how to make menus. The ones you see in Windows programs that say file, edit, etc.
In order to make a menu, you go to tools then menu editor or Ctrl + E. To make an menu, you type a caption and a name. The name must begin with "mnu." To make a sub menu, you click on the -> arrow, then repeat the way to make a menu (all things in inside the menu within the sub menu make have the same name but different caption. To include a sarperator, just use - as your caption. Also, you can disable a menu option by clicking the check box next to the enabled.

Yesterday...

Yesterday, we learned to generate random numbers. Random numbers are just for a multide of thing. Example: the movement of a computer in a video game, the machines in casino, etc... The expession for random is rnd. When you use rnd it generates a number between 0 and 1.

Here is an example of one way random numbers are used.

Dim Value as Integer

Value = Value + (Rnd * 6) Generates random value between 1 and 6.

I think I am missing somethings. I am sorry for any forgotten information. Oh-ya. I know a lot of people want VB, and that Mr. Malandrakis is trying hard to get a copy for us. I am not sure if I should be saying this and I hope I don't get in trouble, but I was able to retrieve a version of Visual Basic 6.0. But it is not Enterpise Edition like the one we use in school, it is professional. Its exactly the same but with more tools. Maybe, if anyone wants it they can ask me. Though, I am not sure if I could. Well ya. One more thing, I have a suggestion. If Mr. M can make a scribe list. Showing all the previous scribe, so that when it time for the scribe to pick the next person they know who has already scribed.

The next scribe will be...."iNdrew."

Test #1

2006-03-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,

Your first test will be on Monday, March.6 and it will consist of two parts. A written part and a programming part. The written part will consist of mulitple choice, true-false questions, along with a small part where you might have to fill in some code.
The programming part will consist of a small program that you will have to complete during the remainder of the class. The form(s) will be pre-made for you and in your folders to begin and you will mainly have to write code to perform certain tasks.
The topics covered on the written portion are wide open to anything we've looked at so far this semester. You will have your monitors OFF during the written portion and once you're done the written portion you will hand that in and commence the programming portion.

Scribe

2006-02-28T17:15:00.000-08:00

Pretty much the entire class today was actually just a work period so not much new happened today. In the class the new practice program that we're working on is titled "Sort'Em Out" the whole point of the program is to have three list boxes and a command button. When pressed an input bow will appear for the user to enter any words which start with the letters a, b, or c. The letters are then entered into the boxes one for a's, another for b's and the last for c's, also like the last class where we learned how letters are organized, the lowercase letters should be before the uppercase letters. Lastly there should also be a password screen the is NOT case-sensitive. I think that's all there is but I could be wrong.

Next scribe for the class will be Margaret.

Whoops. The late scribe.

2006-02-27T20:22:00.000-08:00

Well, I forgot I had to do this. Whoops. Supposedly this is a really important class. Lucky me!
Well I have short-term memory so I'm probably going to miss something, or get something wrong. Just write a comment to correct me.

Today's Class was about:
Strings

First, we were taught that visual basic sorts through strings in alphabetical order. We started of with a new program where we made 2 text boxes. When you enter 2 words, you can "compare" them. With our compare button, we made it so that when you put two words. It can tell you which word is greater than the other. For example, if you entered "apple" and "banana" The program would say something like " Word 2 is greater than Word 1." During this part, we also learned a new code, ElseIf. It was used to continue adding more if statements.

Another thing we did was joining words. When we clicked the button, it is supposed to take the first word you wrote, and the second word you wrote, and put them together into a label. We have the experience to be able to put a variable into message boxes and labels, but we couldn't make it say for example, "Hello "(insert name here) The important thing we learned here is the use of the ampersand, or if you don't know what that is, the "&" symbol. Using the ampersand, you can join strings together. For example the code is "Hello " & (variable). So you can keep adding strings together with the ampersand. You also have to remember to add the correct spaces so that it doesn't look weird.

Alright, another thing we learned is how to find the length of a string. It's used to find out how many letters are inside of the string. It's not a very hard code, it's fairly simple. All you have to do is type Len() with the string you want to find the length to, inside the brackets. What it did was that when we clicked the button, the program would tell you how many letters are in the first word, and how many letters are in the second word. It was all done in one line, so we used the ampersand again.

We also learned about uppercase and lowercase letters. When a person types the 2 words, and presses the lower case button. It's supposed to make whatever they wrote, all lower case. If they click the uppercase button, it will put whatever they wrote in all capitals. All you have to do is use the code LCase() for lowercase, and UCase() , for uppercase.

We were given a few minutes, to make our DMCI projects password protected. We were supposed to make it so that even if they typed the password in lowercase, it would still be correct.

I think that's about it. It's late, I'm tired.
So the next Scribe is

Jason.

Hey I'm Just Scribing

2006-02-24T14:01:00.000-08:00

Today in our Computer Science class We first got work and finish our practice program . The Credit Card . That assignment I think was pretty hard for me since I'm not good at the making of Functions and thinking about how the balance + trans = blah to work 100% yet . This assignment did help me and I think others to be able to get used to using functions . Yeah thats about all I have to say .

I'm not exactly The best speller or anything so any mistakes I made is a opps in advance Lets see what the next scribe will say . I choose you ..........

Robeson I guess

The "Chosen 6" for Open House

2006-02-24T13:37:00.000-08:00

Hey folks, I'm sorry I forgot to mention the six who's assignents were chosen to be on a laptop at "Open House" last night. They are:

Graeme
Andrew
Scott
Jan
Thang
Jason

Good job you guys, and mostly everyone else on a job well done. Have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday.

Scribing

2006-02-23T16:19:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry if this is kinda late, but better late than never...

This class we did a class lesson. We used fuctions again in this program and constants again. The one thing we learned that was new Modulus. Modulus is a math function. It has something to do with the remainds you may get when you divide. This was used to find whether the number was odd or even. Even numbers have no remainders and odd numbers have a number of one.

Mr. M we should get use to using functions and constants becaues we will be using them in all our future programs

Half way throughout he class we were given an practice program to do with a partner. We are to make a program that simulates a credit card. The balance starts the at $0.00. When you put in a postitive number it adds the to the balance and a negative subtracts from the balance. When the balance gets over $5000.00 a message should appear saying what happened and close the program. This program is suppose to use functions and constansts a lot.

Mr. M told us that the the project woul be easy expect for one part. I didn't get what he said so im sorry about that.
Oh and we only have this half of tomorrows class to finish it.

I'm sorry if i messed anything up or missed anything.

The next scribe is.....

Michael

HELP!!!! Help me out here people! (nothing to do with CS)

2006-02-22T19:12:00.000-08:00

Classmates and help me by:
trying not to make the font too small to see.
try not to use italic, hurts the eyes.
try not to use a color that hurts the eyes.

that's all I can think of right now, just idea, don't need to do it if you don't want to.
I was checking on Mr M's PC blog and most of the post are killing me because the fonts are so small and the template is dark color!!. +++++ some post are italic + small (double trouble) LOL 8:(

or I think is just me, Later.
no offense about your blog Mr M just suggestion.

Cheers 8:)
Jan Hong

Blogging Returns!

2006-02-22T15:00:00.000-08:00

Wow, blogging returns. I can't say that this is my first time blogger, but I am not an expert either. So this is going to be my post.

Today, in class, We were taught how to make a password form to protect all your work for HACKERS. Inorder to make a password form, you need to have constants. Constants are like variables. They are for declearing things.

For the resting of the class, We worked on our projects. Ten minutes after the bell, Mr. Malandrakis stopped us. The project was finished. Then, we were given a challenge. A challenge to display a message after the wrong password was entered three times.

I hope every is satisfied with there projects. The next scribe is...... *Paulo* (Consumer Boy). J/K Pre-Cal is only recommended for Computer Science.

Special Scribe

2006-02-21T14:17:00.000-08:00

This is the first time i'm doing a post as scribe, and probably the hardest. If there's any grammer, spelling, errors! ( Don't laugh). I'm the kind of person that doesn't like to write alot, so i'll make my post as short as possible.

Today during the first half of the class, we did a lesson on motions and timers. We talked about how to make an image move by itself and stop by itself determine how long you wanted it to be. I would like to write the code down so that everyone can see it, but I forgot when i came home.

During the second half of the class, we get to work on the (advertisement of DMCI) which is for the open house. Today was the second last day we get to work on it. Tomorrow will be the last day we can work on the assignment.

I hope everyone finish their project by tomorrow.

Well I guess thats all i'm going to say.....

The next scribe will be.......................................

Thang Dawg

RECAP

2006-02-20T16:26:00.000-08:00

This is probablly the easiest post I'll ever have to write as the scribe. And maybe the shortest. I'll try and make this long.

Well today we just worked on our projects (Advertising DMCI) for the whole class which will be presented at the open house next thursday. That is, if our ads are good enough. We took a vote on which we prefered. If we wanted to have the lesson for half of the class today and work on our projects tomorrow all period, OR, have today's period to just work on our projects and do the lesson tomorrow. So we just worked today.

Our Computer Science class isn't going to be open tomorrow at lunch. So, if you were planning to work on it during lunch hour .. you can't.

Since that's the case, I just e-mailed my project to myself and plan on trying to finish it up using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. It's pretty different from the program we use at school. Quite confusing, with all the new things they added in this version. But I'll give it a shot.

So I guess that's all.

Next Scribe's going to be....

JOUNG

TIME FOR A POST!!

2006-02-17T20:34:00.000-08:00

This is the first ever post I've done as a scribe. Well to recap what we did in the last couple of weeks is that we had lessons or I should say INTRODUCTIONS to VISUAL BASIC learning some of the simple codes there is that we can learn. Examples of these introductions are message boxes, input boxes, variables, math & timers, labels, etc. etc. After all that we also were taught how to use a blog, well for others just a review. After all these introductions we worked on our Practice Personal Program (P.P.P.) which took 2-3.5 classes and then worked on our FIRST ASSIGNMENT which is being graded. The P.P.P. is just a program to advertise ourself and what our interests and profiles are about us, and the assignment is an advertisement for DANIEL McINTYRE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE for the open house next Thursday.

Today's lesson was about FUNCTIONS or PROCEDURES. Before learning about functions, we had a practice program which Mr. Malandrakis had us do. This program wanted us to have an input box show up asking us to insert an integer either positive or negative and a message box popping up indicating the type of number it is. This program was like a "review" for us, but I was practically lost because I mostly forgot some of the codes =/. Oh well.. In the next weeks coming up I'll probably remember most codes for VB. Well the program Mr. M. wanted us to work on first before learning about functions was the actual lesson about functions. What today's lesson on functions was telling us about was that Functions is a way of keeping our codes "organized" so it wouldn't looked so cluttered together, or crunched up like forms with no spaces indicating neatness. The point of the function is to take the block of code and using just a 3 word sentence for example "CheckForPos" will keep it organized in the click event instead of having the code there.. or is it the other way around.. I'm not so sure.. but if you understand what I'm trying to say then give yourself a pat on the back and remind me to bring cookies for you guys all right?? Mr. Malandrakis even said that Functions are not required to be used in the DMCI AD ASSIGNMENT, but it'll be good use for practice, and that it'll be required in the next coming assignments.

After the lesson we were given time to work on our assignment. Just a reminder to you guys that we will have time to work on it half the class after Mr. M teaches us a new lesson. There's also the lunch hours to work on them too. Well my assignment's all plain and simple pretty much. I'm still thinking on how to make it look a lot nicer than it looks now. I've already recapped what the assignment's about so there is no need to write it all again.

As for the VB that GraemeW. showed us on the link he gave us. The Microsoft VB 2005 is pretty much difficult to use than the one we use at school. It's like a complex version of it that I think personally professionals use in their spare time. But I'll probably get the hang of it after I use it a couple of more times.

This concludes my FIRST scribe, and to end it off, I would like to end it with a question.... How do you send your VB assignments/projects/programs to yourself? I tried and it didn't work.

Thank you for reading my POST. It's going to be difficult to find out who the next scribe is.. does it really have to be my choise?? and if it is.. I choose..............

Mary Ann

Scott Soriano thanks you guys for choosing me as the scribe for the weekend. =) I had fun.. Can I be the scribe again??

SORRY FOR THE LATE DELAY!!

2006-02-17T19:04:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the late delay, I was at church band practice and I just got home at 8:45. I won't be able to write a POST until later at midnight because I'll be heading to my mom's place soon. So don't you worry for those who are awaiting a post, I will be back soon. THANK YOU!

Just having fun blogging

2006-02-16T18:23:00.000-08:00

Today we got the First project and now I'm thinking I'll have to stay during lunch to work on it . For this assignment I'm still thinking about what I should do for it . This maybe a challenge but I still like this class . I just finished downloading that visual basic thing and after school is done during the summer . I will make a program on my free time because I find the programing part the fun part Thinking about ideas is the hard part . Until tommorow .

Info on VB

2006-02-16T17:56:00.000-08:00

I just got Visual Basic 2005 - Expression Edition (Visual Basic). Like Graham had said you can download it from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/default.aspx.

Personally, I think it's much more difficult to use than the older version, Visual Basic 6.0.

Scribes Scribbles

2006-02-16T14:32:00.000-08:00

Well once again scribing... Thought I would get a break for a semester from this... Alright, enough with my ranting, onto the topic of computer science. So today was the last day in class that we had time to work on our practice program. According to Mr. Malandrakis' praise of our programs during the class I think we all did fairly well. So halfway through the class he told us to stop whatever we're doing and pay attention, and our first assignment was assigned.

The program that we have to make is an ad for DMCI. Those teachers are always thinking, why pay a company to make your ads when you got 1000 slaves... I mean students.... at your disposal. I'm just joking... It seems like a fun assignment, lots of FREEDOM to do as you wish. For this assignment you have to make DMCI look as fabulous as humanly possible (not too hard a feat). One of the main points that Mr. Malandrakis stressed was that these programs should be heavily interactive. You always gotta give the person something to do. Something to click, watch play & all that jazz. Another thing is that you have to assume that the person using your program is fairly computer illiterate so that the program will be usable by any and everybody. A couple other tidbits is that you may want to employ a brilliant color scheme and/or use large legible fonts. The layout of all those attributes is completely up to you.

He then continued to give out the rubric for the assigment (well not give it out, you know what I mean.) You get five marks for naming every single little object in your form including your form with a proper name with the proper prefix.
eg. frm, img, tmr etc.
The next tidbit is to make the form organized, not cluttered otherwise that's fairly self explanatory, worth another 5 marks.
Next is neat code. Basically indent your if statements. 3 marks.
Next is variables. You gotta have atleast one in this program. But there should be more. 5 marks.
Then there is commenting.... think that might be the bane of me. YOU MUST COMMENT ON EVERY SINGLE THING THAT MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED EXPLAINING. But several lines of code can be explained by a single comment. Our pages should be flooded with green. This is worth another 5 marks.
Then there is the actual advertising of DMCI. This has to make the school look GOOD. Since that is the main essense of the project it is worth a hefty 10 marks.
After that is the use of all the topics we have covered so far. So use everything that we have in our repitoire of code. Worth 8 marks.
Then there is a couple of marks for the implementing of a game into your program somewhere.
Lastly there is the creativity and originality worth 7 marks. Make it interesting people. You don't want people thinking that DMCI is a boring school.
That all is for a grand total of 50 marks and is due WED, MAR.22 / 06 (end of class). He stressed that this is like any other assignment in any other class and will be marked at the time it is due... no time for some extra tweaking.

On another note... I have found a visual studio thing that is very similar to what we are using. It just looks like an updated version and it's FREE from Microsoft. It seems to need a fairly good computer because mine can't really handle it... but my computer can barely boot up so... It is a 70 something MB download without any extra stuff and with the extra stuff it's about 425 MB.
Unfortunately there is a small hitch... you have to register... It's not that bad a registration the only thing that i was hesitant to give out was my postal code (didn't see why they would need it, so I'm expecting so junk mail from Microsoft.) Well if you want it the site with all the info is http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx and the download is on the right side. So enjoy... use it well...

Lastly I have to say in the words of Mr. Kuropatwa "This room is not your only audience. The WORLD is your audience." Well it went on longer then that but the jist of it was make your posts understandable to every person that will come here and make it look neat and good because your posts are a reflection of yourself and our school online. So if there's any errors in this just tell me and I'll get them fixed. (Oh and one more last thing Mr.Malandrakis is there a way we can make applets out of our code so we can show the code then show what it does for real instead of just telling of what it does?)

The next scribe is.....

*Drumroll*

Scott! (made at www.graffiticreator.net)

This class fun ... at least for now

2006-02-15T17:34:00.000-08:00

The pratice program we are doing is pretty fun . I made my program a sort of game just because its fun . I think I will do the 11 and 12 thing next year . It's better than taking grade 11 and 12 french next year because I dislike taking french all year . ... I'm done.

iNdrew reporting for duty!

2006-02-15T13:56:00.000-08:00

Welcome ladies and gentlemen. I am honoured to be the very first scribe for this class (c! So lets' start this out with a bang (hopefully). This will seem boring to read so please bear with me. First we have spent the couple of days working on our projects which is our "personal profile program" (PPP). Our project is due shortly which is tomorrow, but we will have have .5 of the period to complete it, so dont panic. It really isnt due, due. I recommend if you dont posess a copy of visual basic at home to use the lunch period wisely.

Some options you have are:

1) You can go to the room (1) and work on it on your lunch periods so you can stay ahead of the game/ work on it.
2) Another alternative way is that you have Visual basic at home and send the form home and work on there.

The basic characteristics of the "personal profile program" is to take all of the things we learned in class and transform and model a program that is or similar to a profile of you. Today was a easy going class, the class sped and ended so fast that some people lost track of time, but all in all it was a pretty fast class maybe because we had little to no inturruptions and we were putting so much effort and so in to the program. Todays class felt that it was maybe half of the regular period since it went so fast. Anyway...

Mr. Malandrakis was supervising and giving everyone support and detailed hints on what they wanted to do. He almost helped everyone in the class which is great can we give him a thanks ? (Yeap!)

The radio was on in the background which also contributed to the speed of how fast things went, it sets the mood! Music has been proved to help some people work better and digest food better my listening to some sort of music while doing the specific action. Keep that in mind...

Some stuff we learned in the class we should integrate into our project are: Text boxes, labels, command buttons, list boxes, image boxes, picture boxes, input boxes, message boxes, timers.

Properties: Captions, text, tool tip text, visible, stretch, backcolor, if statements end statements, frames, option buttons, using multiple forms.

Basically the program advertises you and should be like your resume. Here is an idea make the program and print it out and use it as your resume :P.

Other info: Mr. Malandrakis also spoke of computer science in the class, he was saying how computer science will be this semester, next semester for grade 11, and the following semester will be grader 12, so by the time your in grade 12 you will be able to get the ap program done and if you get a good gpa on computer science you are elligible to get the university 1 credit done to! that saves alot approximately 500$ just as much as taking me out to a rich cuisine. Which option would you like to chose? That is most obvious :P. That is soon to come some fyi's for people staying in computer science.

So far my project is coming along slowly as i have not plan what to do, making an outline deems useful in many ways so you do not waste time comtemplating and wasting valuable time to think of what to do. A general outline is useful. I almost have finished integrating all the stuff we learned and might leave out some as it might not fit. So far i have included the basic buttons, images, options, labels.

This is a new language to many so remember if you get frustrated with it just go eat some ice creame and make yourself feel better but quitting is not an option it is reserved for those who do not want to learn. Visual basic does get pretty boring and frustrating to those who is going to still take it mad props to you. You're not the first to quit, and you won't be the last. Computer science seems more comprehendable than math!

Drop me a comment to say how boring this post was, i'll be looking forward to them!

Right now im testing other cool stuff on visual basic, can we include some other stuff that we did not learn in class onto the personal profile program?

That is the end of my story, nothing really else to elaborate on so i will conclude this by saying that the next scribe is GraemeW.

GL HF

What i think

2006-02-14T18:26:00.000-08:00

A week have gone passed in CS and this is the second course that drives me crazy. Number one and will always be number one is math, and now a new subject hads appear in second place and it is COMPUTER SCIENCE. This course is hard because is not like in web design and just put in whatever I want to put in dreamweaver and post it on the web and that it, will done or html 2, 3 pages of html tags to copy of from and put it in the note pad. CS is notthing like that, we have to think about it that we are the master or boss of that computer, and then whatever we want it to do we would just tell the computer and then he will do it unless you have a pink computer then she will do it. We have to also think of what kind of commands to give him or else he wont do it. Before i have this course, i always think that the computer is telling me what to do because like the research we do and the stuff we learn from it we will prabally do it, but really if we think about it we are telling the computer what to do, will just tell it to find us info like "Hey computer go find me some information for my school project" and he will go do it. Any way, lets just continou, i dont think you know what iam talking about anyways, so ya this course is hard. Also that guy Mr.M tell us that we would need to show are works in assinments and tests and i just though that he have a little too much math (crazy), how on earth are we going to show our work for Computer science like game designs? (dont answer it i already know the answer).
I hope that later on in this course I will have a better leadership over the computer.
Good bye for now,

HERE ARE MY OTHER HOPES:
I hope that I will be the last to scribe
I hope that my computer will lisson better
I hope that we get better computer for the CS room
I hope that I will never have to blog for school again
I hope that the final exams is easy

sry for the bad spelling and grammer, it is the computer that was making the errors, not me, no, never me. anything say about the teacher is also made by the computer.

Cheers
JIAN XIONG 堅雄

Thoughts and Question

2006-02-14T17:52:00.000-08:00

Well today we worked on our Practice Personality Program and I'm pretty much getting the hang of the codes, and visual basic, with a little bit of difficulties here and there. Regarding the PPP, I came up with a question that came up in my mind while I was chasing the bus at Polo Park today. My question is if it is possible to have like a wallpaper or background on the form instead of having a Solid Plain colour as a layout? Hopefully by tomorrow or Thursday I'll be able to finish my PPP and make it look cool, and that shows a little bit about my personality.

My thoughts

2006-02-13T17:48:00.000-08:00

Today in class we are now starting our first practice program . This one seems easy enough but I need to think of more ways to put more of what we learnt all last week into it .

Does anybody know how to fix the opition button problem ??

today's lesson math&timer

2006-02-10T20:37:00.000-08:00

Today's lesson about math and timer. It was going smoothly, but when Mr. Malandrakis started on the Enlarge picture thing, thats when i got lost. Could someone explain it to me?

Check out the "INTERESTING AND HELPFUL LINKS"

2006-02-10T19:38:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, great posts on your thoughts. Next week once everyone is more comfortable we'll get some really good stuff on all the topics up here. For now if you're having trouble check out the two links to tutorials on the side. They will probably answer some of your questions and hopefully help you out a bit.

My thoughts.

2006-02-10T17:22:00.000-08:00

I'm happy to say that I've gotten the hang of this computer science stuff, a little. I do have trouble remembering some things though, so I'd have to agree to what andrew said in the previous post. It would be nice to have some codes posted up just as a little reminder for all of us. Hopefully in my next post I'll be able to contribute some codes once I get a good understanding of it all.

Thoughts...

2006-02-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

So far in the class everything is going smoothly, except right after the class I forget some of the stuff that we did in the class. Sigh..., maybe if someone posted some of the stuff we did, no one would forget, even though we have the tut, if someone just put put the code up we can use the blog as a quick reference!

Early Thoughts

2006-02-07T14:48:00.000-08:00

Well after two days of sitting through the class it didn't seem too hard considering what other people say about it but I sure that is going to change shortly after about a week or two. Other then that I really don't have any other thoughts on Computer Science as we've only had about 3 days of it.

just a test

2006-02-07T12:03:00.000-08:00

blah blah blah

Intro to VB

2006-02-06T17:40:00.000-08:00

So today we got our first taste of Visual Basic and a small taste of some of the things that we can do with it. You got your first glimpse at some of the absolute basic building blocks of a program: labels, command buttons, text boxes, and of course your first look at some code. What do we think so far? Easy? Hard? Not sure? Remember look at the post below this one, "Mission POSSIBLE", your understanding of this will take some time and patience. Stick with it, work hard and you'll be able to reach the sky sooner than you think.

Make a POST, not a comment, on your thoughts on what you've seen so far.

Misson POSSIBLE

2005-12-23T23:31:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the computer science 20S blog for Mr.Malandrakis. If you have never programmed before the first 2 weeks or so of the course might seem like mission impossible. Trust me, if you stick with it and work hard, the possibilities are endless, you'll be doing things which you once thought were impossible, and more importantly there won't be any "ladder" too hight for you to climb.