CTE Expo

This past Monday was the CTE expo. We as a class spoke to several freshmen and inspired them to join the Web Design Academy. I, personally, addressed concerns about Spanish and other electives that were not needed once enrolled in this academy. Others were talking about these as well but not as in depth as I was, surely. I also spoke about the amount of work and the intensity of this class. Overall, I believe that I convinced at least 5 freshman to join.

Project 1: Calculator

  This project was developing a fully functional JavaScript calculator. At first it was hard because I thought it was more complicated than it actually was. At first I thought it took arrays and loops when I didn’t have to use them. I looked up a tutorial and it really educated me. It recommended using the form tag that I never used before. The rest of the code was making buttons and the display section of the calculator. The inputs appeared in the display because of functions that already existed. There was no need to define my own functions. The main code I used was “<input type=button value="#" OnClick="calculator.view.value+='#'">”  to show the numbers and the operators. The location to display the numbers and the operators is in the calculator form in the view colspan. This is why it is shown in the code. For the “clear” button, there was an apostrophe instead of a number. For the “=” button the end was changed to “calculator.view.value=eval(calculator.view.value)”  This project really showed me what I can do with coding.

Career Fair

 The Career Fair at Information Technology's library was a great learning experience. I talked to a graduate of this school, Sodman. He explained what the college experience is like and how we have to act and conduct ourselves in the real world. It was really eye opening because he said that we have to step up for ourselves because because no one else will. Also I talked to an alumni named Tiffany who said to be more motivated in high school because those years will affect the future the most as well as college. As far as the careers I talked to the Marines. This was really insightful because they talked about how not all military occupation have to be in the field. One of them was an engineer. This really caught my attention because I was considering the military but ruled it out because I thought it was all war zones and danger. After you served the benefits are good as well.  The career fair really opened my eyes to what I could do and how I should be.

Lab 8

 In this lab we had to demonstrate our knowledge of loops. In my lab I executed loops and gave brief explanations of each one. The for loop is best for when something has to be repeated a known number of times and it is inconvenient to type it over and over. The for in loop is best when the contents of an array have to be written. The loop could write them out for you. The while loop is good for when a condition is temporary and something has to be done during the conditions current state. The do while loop is exactly the same however it ensures that the code executes at least once. 

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Rollover Lab 6

In this lab we made a rollover using different programs and softwares. The html rollover works when the mouse hovers over it. The photoshop rollover swaps through images at  regular pace disregarding the user. The javascript rollover is the most interactive because the big images changes to the small image that the mouse hovered over last. The hardest part of this lab was the upload because the server crashed. I had to upload my lab off Niocities.org. This was a problem because the smaller images from the javascript rollover were broken. This would not have happened in Dreamweaver's servers. 

Switch and loops

Today I read about switches and loops. The format for the switch is switch(expression) {case n:  code block break;case n: code block break;default:default code block}. It seemed easy on the test run and on the definitions, however it was not. I tried to use the switch in my game of choice and it did not work. I could not figure out what was wrong with my code. I even had it in the right format! This was by far the most difficult code that I have come across by far. The for loop was easy to understand as well but had a more complex format. There were too many formats to copy here solely because there were many variants of the loop. I have used it in the exercises and in code academy and it was fairly easy to use. Some problems that I came across were the infinite looping caused by syntax errors. This code is something that I can see myself using but would have to check the format every time I used it. I personally dislike the switch because of my past experience, but I look forward to using the loop more.

JavaScript Conditionals

              Today I learned about JavaScript conditionals. They are used to execute codes that are dependent on a condition. This condition may or may not be satisfied in order to get something done. If/else statements are the perfect example of this. Tf the condition is true then a code will be executed. If the condition is false, another code will be executed. These may have more than one result through the else if option of adding another condition. Switches are basically the same thing with a different format and an unlimited number of conditions. This will be useful in the future for when we put it to work.