Well this is it guys and gals we made it. Personally I have really enjoyed this class, it was my funniest, and probably the easiest of all my classes. I know it may be a shock to anyone reading this but the first blog we wrote in this class was my first blog ever. I have done many things in this class that I would have never done with this class, one example I would have never started to blog unless it was for a grade. A few more examples are the Alice project, creating my own web page, and getting to build and program a robot. For any one who has not taken this class you should read through my class blogs and think about it because it was a great class.
Ok back to day one when I was a scared little freshmen. The first week wasn’t bad mostly we covered the syllabuses, and we also had to write a blog about ourselves. Week two got more interesting when we covered binary. Which was really cool I was proud to say if you wrote a whole bunch of random zeros and one I could give you a number from it. During the third week we discussed the inside and out of a computer and for our lab we had to build won with parts we found on the internet which was fun. I don’t think I will ever forget the pseudo computer aka “The Pseudo Beast”. For those of you who don’t know a pseudo computer is a really simple computer. This was one of the most difficult things I’ve done in a while. I remember sitting at computer at home and playing with it and when it work and jumped up and started to dance, that’s right dance. All of this stuff is just the a third of the class.
Week five we talked about HTML and how to write a web page. This was really cool but was also a little time consuming but, it was fun anyways. The next week we talked about Alice and Randy Pausch and watched the last lecture which was really good by the way, if you haven’t seen it I recommend you look it up on Youtube Now don’t wait, NOW. Programming in Alice was very fun but frustrating and time consuming. Although when mine was done it wasn’t very long although it did what I wanted it to and I enjoyed seeing the final product. Week seven we talked about programming and all the different languages although Ive heard once you’ve learned one the next comes easier I am currently taking Java and it is pretty difficult as a first time programmer. During the next week we talked about security and hacking. I acted like I could hack when I was little I would hit as many key as fast as possible and say ” there you we’re in”. I always been interested in hacking and thought the videos we watched were very cool. And that raps up the two thirds of the class.
Finally the home stretch, the Ninth week we talked about robots, which was really cool getting to see all the different kinds of robots. I loved watch the greatest robot race, it was really cool and I was hoping Stanley would win and he did Ho-ray!!!! We also got to program the Lego Mindstorm robots which was fun. Week ten we talked about A.I. and for those of you who don’t know what A.I. is look it up. Every time I think of A.I. I think of Terminator, and robots taking over the world. Talking about the conscientiousness of a computer most of the talks went over my head although I got the jest of most of it. I hope computer never become self aware like sky net. I just now got the best part virtual reality and Video games I am gamer and this was cool to talk about in a classroom as a topic. Dr. Brown also asked us to others blogs and I found an interesting one. Some was talking about the cons in video games. They said that video games were to complicated and to hard to follow. If you give time and look there are video games out there for you, ranging from simple to complex. Any of you who haven’t played any video games just give them a chance and don’t completely write them off. And now for the Final week of class we wrapped up about all we talked about. I just wanna say Thanks Dr. Brown for an interest and very Fun semester hopefully I can have a different class you teach.
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