phcaudle's blog

I thought that Pausch’s “last speech” was perfect. It touched all the right points and was executed perfect by him. He made me think about life in general and realize that there are plenty of oppertunities for your dreams. My first impressions of Alice are good. I have played around with it a good deal, and I am having alot more fun with Alice than any of the other assignments we have had thus far. I feel like im playing a game rather than stressing out about computer languages all the time. It is awesome making a little video game type deal. It is also crazy how you can take anything and make it do pretty much anything. I think me along with the rest of the class will enjoy working with Alice the next few weeks.

I will have to say that HTML is one of the toughest activities I have encountered on a computer yet. I do not know alot about computers as is so this assigment was a little tough. It was pretty interesting as far as getting to play around with making my own webpage, but when it came to coding it the right way and making everything flow well together it got a little more difficult. Believe it or not the hardest part I have encountered is turning the assignment in. I still to this minute cannot figure it out, but I think things are looking up tomorrow if it is not counted late. Overall it was a fun asssignment. I just need to fugure out the turning in process…

I have found this to be the most interesting assignment we have had. The last lab we had with minor computer programming was too confusing for me. The HTML is alot to take in, but it is also easier to understand. This has made it more interesting, and in return I have been learning alot more. Hand-coding HTML is important because you learn how to build an actual webpage. It helps with learning everything that you need to know about webpages; font size, color, underlining, bold, creating links, and alot more. It will take me at least another week to get a better idea about HTML, and by then I should be able to build my own webpage correctly.