10-20-07

It has been awhile, but I still remember what I have learned. I learned how to use program, TextWrangler. I learned many new, and old, things, I hope to become very good at it. But I just hope I can remember everything. I even learned some very helpful stuff that will help me with TextWangler.

10-20-07

This e-mail, as you requested, is about my experience in math and science. I am currently taking geometry and biology. I am rather good at math, and even my teacher said that I am ahead of my math class. I also took earth science last year in the 9th grade. I also took algebra last year. I also am very into anything that involves math and or science.

10-20-07

I was rather interested in HTML. I found it rather neat, and I'm looking forward to learning more. I hope that I can come again next Saturday. I also hope that I will be great friends with all of my mentors. I made my own web however, it is not one that someone would like to go to on a regular basis. I helped a bit with the HTML, and learned it. I also think that I got to a wonderful start for the first class. I also think that I am good friends with Ernie. I hope to learn more about HTML. I also would like to learn a bit more about my peers. I also hope that we will get into Agent Sheets. But I just can't wait for everything, Shodor is more fun rather than work, and I'm glad to be here! Well, the only thing that I can think of is that Ernie helped me the most. He helped me when my computer was acting up. He even helped me, and everyone else, to learn a bit of HTML. I hope that we will learn more of it. All I did was show a typo that Ernie made. I also helped Philip a bit, but other than that, I did not help at all.

11-3-07

I am excited about Inkscape and Gimpshop. I found it very neat, and I learned some neat tools, like the stamp in Gimpshop. I do hope that the assignments I need to do will be good. I'm happy about the fact that I learned Gimpshop and Inkscape without any problems. I also made some very good points during class.I do hope that my good work will continue. I hope to learn more about Gimpshop. I think that it could be useful later in my life, and it is something very neat to learn. I would say that all of my teachers helped me today. I think Ernie helped me the most. I guess I helped the entire class, I made the suggestion to open Gimpshop while we were on break, so it would have time to load.

11-10-07

I had no classes today, just extra hours. I did a total of three web page prototypes and I am very proud of them. I had to draw them out on paper first, or course. I learned more about Inkscape and Gimpshop by just using them, even though I used Inkscape the most today. I guess I would like to learn more about Inkscape and Gimpshop. I was helped by Simon today, he gave me an idea what my web page prototypes should look like. I would hope that he gets better, he lost his voice today. I helped Precious a lot, she asked me very many questions, more than I wished or hoped. But I'm glad she asked questions, a part of me anyway, because I would like everyone here to do their best.

11-17-07

Today I learned more about Gimpshop and Inkscape, and had a great time learning it. I would like to learn more about it, but the lessons need to move on. I hope that we learn more stuff like Gimpshop and Inkscape. I think I'm most proud of the fact that I now know how to use Inkscape and Gimpshop better. Now I can make better pictures and whatnot. I hope that I will get better over time. I'm hoping to learn more about Gimpshop and Inkscape, but I know that this can't happen. We need to move on to other stuff, I'm kinda disappointed, but maybe I will find something that I like more. I would say that Ernie helped me the most. I have a few problems when I was using Gimpshop and Inkscape, and he helped me out a lot. I would say that I did not help at all, everyone was doing their work and had no questions. I wish that I could have helped anyway.

12-1-07

I had tons of fun learning CSS. It would have been boring, but Monty made it lots of fun to learn. We did go over the basics of html a little bit, but it was still fun. Before today, CSS was like Greek to me, but then, like magic, it all made sense. I was so happy and proud of myself, I hope to learn more. I also learned something I needed for Inkscape, which was very helpful. I hope to learn more about CSS. It was lots of fun. I even hope to learn more about how to make a good logo and all other things like it, right now I need help. I hope to cover a bit more HTML some more. I would say Monty helped me the most. He helped me learn CSS, I also need to thank Ernie because he showed me something I needed to know in Inkscape. I would say that I was unable to help anyone today. I think, at the most, I helped to answer some questions. I hope to be more helpful next week.

12-15-07

I did more CSS, and it was so much less complicated than last time. I also heard that we might use Round Cube instead of Squirrel Mail, and it is, for me, so much easier to use. I think that I am most proud of the fact that I was able to do CSS without being very confused. I might have had a few questions, but they were for very minor things. I also did a bit of Java, it is so picky... I am not looking forward to learning more Java; however, it was very picky. Even a wrongly capitalized letter would not allow Java to work. I would like to learn more about CSS, it is starting to make more sense to me. I would say that Ismael helped me the most. He answered all of my questions to the best of his ability. I also think that we have made a friendship. Matt also helped me a bit as well. I would say that I helped Matt out a bit. I helped him when his website would not be validated, and I helped solve the problem so that it could be validated.

01-12-08

Today we went over Agent Sheets, which I already knew about. It was so much fun, and Ernie made me add on many things to it so that I would not bug him, I guess. I would say that I was proud that I already knew about Agent Sheets. I would also say that I'm very proud of myself because I was able to do that Agent Sheet's homework in only something like thirty minutes! I hope to learn more about AgentSheets because I used it before, and would like to know more about it. I also hope to become an expert at it. I would say that Ada helped me a bit, she told me what to do so I could help our group. I think that she is a wonderful group mate. Ada does her share of the work load. I hope to work with her in the near future! I think that I did not help anyone this week, it was mostly class, so I could not help at all.

1-26-08

A man, from Cisco, came today, and gave us a talk about presentation. We also did some more Agent Sheets, and I learned many new things. I hear that we will learn NetLogo next time. Last time I used NetLogo, I was horrible at it... I hope I do better next time. I learned more about Agent Sheets. I also helped my fellow classmate. I hope to learn more about Agent Sheets. I am rather good at it, but I hope to get better at it. I also hope that I will be able to use NetLogo without getting confused at all, like I usually do with it. I would say, hands down, that Patricia Jacobs helped me a bunch. I had an error with Agent Sheets, she helped me with it. I helped Mauricio today, his Agent Sheets project was not working the way it should. I was able to help get him through the error.

2-9-08

I guess I was happy to learn NetLogo. And for once, I was not confused! I hope to get better at NetLogo, but I still prefer Agent Sheets. Agent Sheets, to me, is a better program because it is more simple. I was happy with the fact that I was not confused with NetLogo. The last time I used NetLogo, I was lost, and had no clue what to do. I do hope to learn more about NetLogo, it kind of reminds me of Agent Sheets, but you have more control over it. Also, it tells you if you made an error, unlike Agent Sheets. Agent Sheets will not tell the user if they made an error, or even where it is. I would say that no one helped me, mostly because I was able to use NetLogo and not get confused by it, for once. I would also say that I helped no one, I guess everyone didn't have any trouble with NetLogo today.

2-23-08

I would say that I was excited to learn more NetLogo. I learned, by myself, how to create a new depiction in NetLogo. I tried to make a chicken, but it turned up looking like a deformed, hunchbacked, ugly duckling. We got new partners today, and we got a bit far in our Agent Sheets project. My new partners are Pablo and Isabelle. I hope to learn more NetLogo, because I'm still having some trouble with it. I also hope to learn more about Pablo and Isabelle, so we can function as a group better. I would say that my group members helped me the most, which were Pablo and Isabelle. I helped my group with the project, but I think I will do the PowerPoint instead. To me, it is rather confusing. The errors in Agent Sheets are many, and to make matters worse, Agent Sheets won't, unlike NetLogo, tell you where you made the error.

4-5-08

We did not do much today, we just worked on our presentation skills. I think that I'm proud of the fact that I have improved my presentation skills. I have not heard of anything that I'm exited about to learn. I think that Ernie helped me out the most. Isabel and Pablo also helped. I think that I helped Isabel and Pablo with our presentation skills.

4-19-08

Today we learned how to make a graph on Excel. I'm very excited about this because I'm trying to make a program on Excel at home, and this knowledge will help me greatly. I think that I'm proud of the fact that now I can update an Excel program at my home so it will work better! I hope to learn more about Excel's formulas, such as creating a random number, and to round numbers down or up. I would have to say that Valerie helped me the most, like when the numbers on Excel were not acting the way they were supposed to. I would say that I helped Peitong with Excel when she needed help putting sliders on.

5-03-08

Not anything in particular. Today, we used Vensim. I disliked it, and I think this is the only program I do not like. It always kept crashing. I would have to say that Vensim kept crashing more than a car. The program would usual just crash for no reason. I didn't like that because then I had to save every single time I made a change, and that really slowed down my work. I'm proud of the fact that I saved often, because Vensim kept crashing on me. I have not heard anything that I'm too exited about, except for the fact we will no longer use Vensim. I think that Patricia helped me the most with my Vensim and my Perl. I helped Mauricio a bit when he couldn't get his Vensim working.

5-17-08

I was the most excited that I learned new codes for Perl programing. I was able to make a simple calculator using Perl. The calculator was able to do a problem with only one input, like 2+2 on only one line. I hope to learn more about Perl. I would say that Sandy helped me the most. He gave the the challenge of making a calculator on Perl that needs only one line of input. I didn't help anyone that much.

6-20-08

On the first day we learned about basic programing concepts. I found this rather easy to understand because I'm already quite advanced in Perl. On Tuesday, we learned some PHP. I found it rather uncomfortable to use because I just wanted to put in Perl coding. Later, we did some modeling. We used AgentSheets, and we made a basic model of zombie invasion. I was able to make a complex program very easily, because I'm very familiar with AgentSheets. I was able to have the humans die of old age and hunger. I later added a house to spawn humans because if I didn't, they would die out. On Thursday, me and Thomas mostly worked on a NetLogo project. He was a great NetLogo programmer, he was about advanced in it as I am with AgentSheets. I'm exited to present it as I think we both did a great job. I'm also excited that we will never cover XML, as it really confused me. I was proud that I didn't put any Perl codes into PHP. I'm proud of this because I found it hard not to put any Perl codes in it. I also am proud to know that my Perl knowledge did come in handy. We did some array_push and array_pop commands, and I already knew a lot about it. My Perl knowledge didn't come in so handy for a few things though. When started PHP, our first tool was echo. I had no clue what it did, but I was able to find it out by context clues. I also made an infinite loop using PHP. I was proud because I was able to make it so the screen was filled with just the words "ERROR!" I'm also proud of the NetLogo project Thomas and I worked on. I do hope to learn more about PHP. I think with a bit of work, I could make a Perl to PHP program. If we do learn more about PHP, or any kind of program, I hope I could make a Perl converter with it. I also heard that we were going to learn more programming languages. I'm exited about that because there could be a new tool I will learn, and it could work with Perl. I also hope that the new programming languages are very close to Perl. I would love to be more fluent in another programming language other than Perl. I also hear that we are going to do more modeling. I would love that because I think it's neat, and it could come in useful some time. I do not hope to learn more Vensim. I would say that I got a lot of help from many people. Elizabeth did help with a lot of things. She did help with the SimpleXML programming, as I do not understand it. Thomas was also a great help. When doing the NetLogo project, I did know a lot of the code, but there were a few things I didn't know. For one thing, I didn't know how to get the turtles how to spawn in an area that can change size. He was a great help because he knew how to do that. There were some other small problems that I didn't know how to fix, but Thomas came through and found out the reason for the error. David was also a great help. With our SimpleXML project, he made the XML file, which looked quite hard to make. I think I helped a few people. While working with Thomas, I was able to find some small errors along the way. There were a few errors that dealt with the order of the commands. We also found a bug where the human population was very high, and kept reproducing. I suggested a population limit. I already knew what to do, but Thomas seemed to know what he was doing. That suggestion helped a lot. I also helped the group out. I did, with the PowerPoint presentation for the NetLogo project, put in quite some information. I think I gave a lot of help with the NetLogo project.