Last day of the year!
Anyways, yesterday was such a drag! Blue Mountain was crowded and to make matters worse, the snow was soft, sticky, and not ideal for snowboarding...In addition, someone fell of the lift (I was on it at the time), and fifteen minutes went by before the lift began to move again...We were going to go on New Year's Day, but the temperature is supposed to be +12 in T.O. so my parents decided against going (yes!).
Today, I woke up at 11am (again) and was dragged into going to the Ontario Science Centre by my parents because my little brother's friend could not go and he felt very lonely.
So right now, as I am typing all this up, I have accomplished nothing today (once again) and it's already 6 o'clock. After dinner, I plan on playing another hour of piano, work on my Snake Game for another hour, and use the remaining hour to finish my drawing homework...
Wish me luck...
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thursday 30 December, 2010
Almost 2011...
Today, I found my SPECIAL AND ALL-POWERFUL ERASER!!! Now I can start and finish my drawing homewor!!!
Anyways...
I'm leaving home in 2 hours and not coming back until 12 at night so I'm posting right now before I forget.
I just spent 2 minutes (literally) and I fixed a problem in my Snake Game. In the for loop, I changed the range from 1 .. tailLength to 2..tailLength which eliminates array subscript out of bounds errors. Now, every time the snake eats a circle, a circle is drawn at the end of the tail and makes the snake longer!
However, when I move the snake, the whole tail moves along with it, instead of travelling in the previous direction until it hit the spot in which the direction was changed.
I'll try to fix this problem on the weekend and once I bypass this obstacle, my Snake Game is complete and perfected!
That's all for today.
Today, I found my SPECIAL AND ALL-POWERFUL ERASER!!! Now I can start and finish my drawing homewor!!!
Anyways...
I'm leaving home in 2 hours and not coming back until 12 at night so I'm posting right now before I forget.
I just spent 2 minutes (literally) and I fixed a problem in my Snake Game. In the for loop, I changed the range from 1 .. tailLength to 2..tailLength which eliminates array subscript out of bounds errors. Now, every time the snake eats a circle, a circle is drawn at the end of the tail and makes the snake longer!
However, when I move the snake, the whole tail moves along with it, instead of travelling in the previous direction until it hit the spot in which the direction was changed.
I'll try to fix this problem on the weekend and once I bypass this obstacle, my Snake Game is complete and perfected!
That's all for today.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Wednesday 29 December, 2010
I am shocked...
Today, I stepped on the weight for the first time during the Christmas Break and found out that I had lost 5 pounds!!! My body weight dropped from 120 pounds to 115 in one and a half weeks!
Anyways, today, I spent a half hour attempting to increase the complexity of my Snake Game by adding the notorious tail. I used for loops and counters, employing a method similar to how I added the red circles to the game, however, the tail is encountering numerous errors...
1. Each time the snake eats a circle, the tail is incremented by one. Where the new snake tail is drawn depends on which direction the snake is moving in, so here I need a case statement. I used an array to keep track of the x and y coordinates of all the snake tails (maximum of 60) which could be in play. One for loop controls how many tail circles I want to draw by using a counter, which is incremented by one each time the snake eats a circle (for snakeIndex : 1 .. tailLength) however, here it gets confusing...
The snake cannot hit its own tail, or the game is over. This problem can easily be fixed because it is like hitting a red circle and can be controlled with a for loop. I did not reach this problem yet because I cannot even get the snake tail to be drawn yet! Each time the snake eats a circle, the new coordinates are based on the snake coordinates in front of it, but by subracting one from the array index, when the snake first eats a circle with the index set at 1, the array subscript is out of range. I`m very grumpy right now, so I think that I`ll work on that problem when I finish swimming.
Another problem is that when the user moves the snake, the rest of the body changes direction immediately instead of travelling to the coordinates in which the direction was changed. I know this problem will occur because I encountered it when I tried to incorporate a snake tail to my game at the beginning (apprx. Dec. 10th).
With so many problems and complexities, I`m not sure if I`m going to add a tail after all.
If the culminating activity for ICS involves creating a game, then I am going to work on making a tail. If the culminating activity is not what I think (most likely), then I would have saved some time, work, and frustration...
Tomorrow (and New Year`s Day) I`m going to Blue Mountain again, so I won`t get anything accomplished tomorrow (or Saturday)
That`s all for today...
Today, I stepped on the weight for the first time during the Christmas Break and found out that I had lost 5 pounds!!! My body weight dropped from 120 pounds to 115 in one and a half weeks!
Anyways, today, I spent a half hour attempting to increase the complexity of my Snake Game by adding the notorious tail. I used for loops and counters, employing a method similar to how I added the red circles to the game, however, the tail is encountering numerous errors...
1. Each time the snake eats a circle, the tail is incremented by one. Where the new snake tail is drawn depends on which direction the snake is moving in, so here I need a case statement. I used an array to keep track of the x and y coordinates of all the snake tails (maximum of 60) which could be in play. One for loop controls how many tail circles I want to draw by using a counter, which is incremented by one each time the snake eats a circle (for snakeIndex : 1 .. tailLength) however, here it gets confusing...
The snake cannot hit its own tail, or the game is over. This problem can easily be fixed because it is like hitting a red circle and can be controlled with a for loop. I did not reach this problem yet because I cannot even get the snake tail to be drawn yet! Each time the snake eats a circle, the new coordinates are based on the snake coordinates in front of it, but by subracting one from the array index, when the snake first eats a circle with the index set at 1, the array subscript is out of range. I`m very grumpy right now, so I think that I`ll work on that problem when I finish swimming.
Another problem is that when the user moves the snake, the rest of the body changes direction immediately instead of travelling to the coordinates in which the direction was changed. I know this problem will occur because I encountered it when I tried to incorporate a snake tail to my game at the beginning (apprx. Dec. 10th).
With so many problems and complexities, I`m not sure if I`m going to add a tail after all.
If the culminating activity for ICS involves creating a game, then I am going to work on making a tail. If the culminating activity is not what I think (most likely), then I would have saved some time, work, and frustration...
Tomorrow (and New Year`s Day) I`m going to Blue Mountain again, so I won`t get anything accomplished tomorrow (or Saturday)
That`s all for today...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Tuesday 28 December, 2010
sorry...
haven't been on lately...
The past 3 days have been a blast (too quick though...) and now there's only 5 days left until school starts!
On Saturday, I went to Blue Mountain, received my Season Pass (which includes a free Tremblant pass!).
On Sunday and Monday, my family and I went to friends' houses for dinner and I had lots of fun on both nights.
For the past week or so, I have been going to bed at 12 and waking up at 11 am which totally sucks because it messes my whole system up (breakfast at 11, lunch at 2, and dinner at 5)...
Anyways, I haven't accomplished anything big yet this holiday, but for the remaining 5 days, I'm going to review all of my ICS glossary terms including HTML and basic computer terms.
I also hope to spend more time on the piano and take advantage of the holidays to practise my pieces which are extremely difficult. As I am typing, my hands are still on fire from playing Fantasie-Impromptu really fast (faster than suggested speed of half-note = 88)...
That's it for today.
haven't been on lately...
The past 3 days have been a blast (too quick though...) and now there's only 5 days left until school starts!
On Saturday, I went to Blue Mountain, received my Season Pass (which includes a free Tremblant pass!).
On Sunday and Monday, my family and I went to friends' houses for dinner and I had lots of fun on both nights.
For the past week or so, I have been going to bed at 12 and waking up at 11 am which totally sucks because it messes my whole system up (breakfast at 11, lunch at 2, and dinner at 5)...
Anyways, I haven't accomplished anything big yet this holiday, but for the remaining 5 days, I'm going to review all of my ICS glossary terms including HTML and basic computer terms.
I also hope to spend more time on the piano and take advantage of the holidays to practise my pieces which are extremely difficult. As I am typing, my hands are still on fire from playing Fantasie-Impromptu really fast (faster than suggested speed of half-note = 88)...
That's it for today.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Friday 24 December, 2010
Christmas Eve is up in 8 hours....
I'm posting at 10 (am) right now because I am about to embark on a day-long journey full of activities... I have a doctor's appointment, then the Christmas Eve Church Concert, then dinner with friends, and I won't get much of a chance to accomplish anything today...
Tomorrow won't get any better though, because my family and I are going to Blue Mountain again and that'll take up the whole day and night...
Anyways, that's all...
I'm posting at 10 (am) right now because I am about to embark on a day-long journey full of activities... I have a doctor's appointment, then the Christmas Eve Church Concert, then dinner with friends, and I won't get much of a chance to accomplish anything today...
Tomorrow won't get any better though, because my family and I are going to Blue Mountain again and that'll take up the whole day and night...
Anyways, that's all...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thursday 23 December, 2010
Tomorrow's the big concert...
and I haven't practised at all this week!
Today, I continued to modify my Snake Game "Prototype" (s) and now, at 360 lines, the game also incorporates red circles which make the game harder.
If the character (snake that is only comprised of one circle and never grows longer...) touches any of the red circles in play, the game is OVER!!! I accomplished this in 30 minutes by using boolean variables, 4 for statements (two for x and y axis, two to initialize) and an index to count...
In 30 minutes, I'm a' biking to the swimming pool. Sucks that Torontonians have to pay to go rec swimming, skating, etc (shows how wise it is for the G20 Summit to take place in Toronto...).
That's all for today...
and I haven't practised at all this week!
Today, I continued to modify my Snake Game "Prototype" (s) and now, at 360 lines, the game also incorporates red circles which make the game harder.
If the character (snake that is only comprised of one circle and never grows longer...) touches any of the red circles in play, the game is OVER!!! I accomplished this in 30 minutes by using boolean variables, 4 for statements (two for x and y axis, two to initialize) and an index to count...
In 30 minutes, I'm a' biking to the swimming pool. Sucks that Torontonians have to pay to go rec swimming, skating, etc (shows how wise it is for the G20 Summit to take place in Toronto...).
That's all for today...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Wednesday 22 December, 2010
wow...
Today was a rip-off day and a day full of wasted time...
I thought that I woke up at 8 o'clock and decided to doze off for another 5 minutes then...BANG!!! I wake up and it's 10:30!!!
No one's at home, except for my little brother, who's playing some RPG game, and me, being extremely stupid, decided to help him beat the game...
I ate breakfast at 11 and went to play piano for a full hour before lunch came at 12! I rode my bike (yes, in the cold and snow!) to the recreational centre for rec swimming (like Monday), only today, there was only lane swimming for old people! So, I went back home and at 3 o'clock, I had accomplished nothing!
Anyways, at 5 o'clock, I went back to the computer and spent only half and hour polishing my snake game by eliminating two excess and useless loops which made the program more confusing and inserting helpful comments all over the code. I cut out approximately 100 lines of code, just by eliminating useless loops. Previously, without those loops, my game would explode so I kept the loops at where they were, but then I made 6 Prototypes (yes, I wasn't crazy and there was a reason for six of them...) and finally solved the problem of eliminating the 2 loops without encountering problems...
I also took out 4 boolean variables (directionUp, directionDown, directionLeft, directionRight) which controlled the direction of the snake and replaced them with a single string variable (direction). With direction, I was able to use case instead of lots of ifs and elsifs because you couldn't use cases for chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) and long if ladders were the only solution.
Currently in my Snake Game directory, I have only 2 Prototypes; one which does not draw tails and is only 269 lines long (the Prototype in which I edited today...) and the other which does draw tails (which is 120 lines longer). The Prototype that draws tails does not function properly yet, so tomorrow, I'll work on that...
Today was a rip-off day and a day full of wasted time...
I thought that I woke up at 8 o'clock and decided to doze off for another 5 minutes then...BANG!!! I wake up and it's 10:30!!!
No one's at home, except for my little brother, who's playing some RPG game, and me, being extremely stupid, decided to help him beat the game...
I ate breakfast at 11 and went to play piano for a full hour before lunch came at 12! I rode my bike (yes, in the cold and snow!) to the recreational centre for rec swimming (like Monday), only today, there was only lane swimming for old people! So, I went back home and at 3 o'clock, I had accomplished nothing!
Anyways, at 5 o'clock, I went back to the computer and spent only half and hour polishing my snake game by eliminating two excess and useless loops which made the program more confusing and inserting helpful comments all over the code. I cut out approximately 100 lines of code, just by eliminating useless loops. Previously, without those loops, my game would explode so I kept the loops at where they were, but then I made 6 Prototypes (yes, I wasn't crazy and there was a reason for six of them...) and finally solved the problem of eliminating the 2 loops without encountering problems...
I also took out 4 boolean variables (directionUp, directionDown, directionLeft, directionRight) which controlled the direction of the snake and replaced them with a single string variable (direction). With direction, I was able to use case instead of lots of ifs and elsifs because you couldn't use cases for chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) and long if ladders were the only solution.
Currently in my Snake Game directory, I have only 2 Prototypes; one which does not draw tails and is only 269 lines long (the Prototype in which I edited today...) and the other which does draw tails (which is 120 lines longer). The Prototype that draws tails does not function properly yet, so tomorrow, I'll work on that...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Tuesday 21 December, 2010
I can sense how close we are from Christmas with all the cheerful Christmas songs being played on 96.3 Classical FM and the classical Christmas movies (Home Alone II is right in there!) being showed on television.
Today, I went shopping (with my mom; a bit weird...) and I bought new black socks, leather shoes, and black pants and top for the upcoming Christmas Concert at TCCC (Toronto Chinese Community Church) on Christmas Eve. In the meantime, I'll have to continue to practise my clarinet solos (around 4 solos throughout the concert, which is quite a lot!)...
I didn't really work on any ICS homework or games today mainly because I woke up at 11 o'clock (really late), played 3 hours of piano (I was obsessed with Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, Polonaise in A Flat Major, and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini 18th Variation) practising wonderful pieces which require virtuoso skill (which I am still lacking...), and went shopping (like I mentioned before) for 3 hours!
Tomorrow, I'll spend roughly 2 hours on ICS games and review, 30 minutes on reviewing english, a full hour of practising my clarinet solo, another 2 hours of piano, and one full hour of conditioning and strengthening my body (for Phys. Ed).
Today I did a hundred sit-ups and pushups (not in a row of course!) and I'll get stronger as each day passes...
Today, I went shopping (with my mom; a bit weird...) and I bought new black socks, leather shoes, and black pants and top for the upcoming Christmas Concert at TCCC (Toronto Chinese Community Church) on Christmas Eve. In the meantime, I'll have to continue to practise my clarinet solos (around 4 solos throughout the concert, which is quite a lot!)...
I didn't really work on any ICS homework or games today mainly because I woke up at 11 o'clock (really late), played 3 hours of piano (I was obsessed with Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, Polonaise in A Flat Major, and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini 18th Variation) practising wonderful pieces which require virtuoso skill (which I am still lacking...), and went shopping (like I mentioned before) for 3 hours!
Tomorrow, I'll spend roughly 2 hours on ICS games and review, 30 minutes on reviewing english, a full hour of practising my clarinet solo, another 2 hours of piano, and one full hour of conditioning and strengthening my body (for Phys. Ed).
Today I did a hundred sit-ups and pushups (not in a row of course!) and I'll get stronger as each day passes...
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday 20 December, 2010
First day into my break (actually, it's the third, but the weekend does not count...)!
For the next two weeks, my posts will be really short because they aren't necessary...
Today, I've been working on a "Guitar Hero" game and after wasting two hours of my morning, I have come up with a program which waits for the user to press a key and pending on the key pressed, the program will play a music file saved as .mp3 in which I transferred from my MP3 and IPOD. Currently, I have 9 awesome songs that will be played in the background.
As for the game, well let's just say that I have made fairly good progress. In just ten minutes, I made the general layout of the game, including the stationary circles at the bottom, the score and streaks, and drawing the circles and making them move them and disappear when the user presses a button. For the next hour, I wasted my time trying to make multiple circles come out and fixing other technical difficulties, such as drawing the circles before the key is pressed instead of waiting until the key is pressed and drawing the next circle.
I think that that's all the time that I'll spend on ICS for today...
I still have 2 hours of piano (Chopin Revolutionary Etude), 2 hours of recreational swimming, 2 hours of drawing, and a lot of other activities which consume 2 hours...
That's all for today!
For the next two weeks, my posts will be really short because they aren't necessary...
Today, I've been working on a "Guitar Hero" game and after wasting two hours of my morning, I have come up with a program which waits for the user to press a key and pending on the key pressed, the program will play a music file saved as .mp3 in which I transferred from my MP3 and IPOD. Currently, I have 9 awesome songs that will be played in the background.
As for the game, well let's just say that I have made fairly good progress. In just ten minutes, I made the general layout of the game, including the stationary circles at the bottom, the score and streaks, and drawing the circles and making them move them and disappear when the user presses a button. For the next hour, I wasted my time trying to make multiple circles come out and fixing other technical difficulties, such as drawing the circles before the key is pressed instead of waiting until the key is pressed and drawing the next circle.
I think that that's all the time that I'll spend on ICS for today...
I still have 2 hours of piano (Chopin Revolutionary Etude), 2 hours of recreational swimming, 2 hours of drawing, and a lot of other activities which consume 2 hours...
That's all for today!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Friday 17 December, 2010
Hooray!!!
Today was the last day of school and Chirstmas Break has begun!
I participated in the Christmas Concert and thus did not go to any of my classes today...
I hope that everyone has a happy and relaxed break because it'll be a long time before the next break comes (with exams in the middle of course!)
That's it for 2010 folks!!! (I might post during the holidays too, just to update the features of my game...maybe...) :)
Today was the last day of school and Chirstmas Break has begun!
I participated in the Christmas Concert and thus did not go to any of my classes today...
I hope that everyone has a happy and relaxed break because it'll be a long time before the next break comes (with exams in the middle of course!)
That's it for 2010 folks!!! (I might post during the holidays too, just to update the features of my game...maybe...) :)
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Thursday 16 December, 2010
With the Christmas Break lingering just around the corner, certain teachers (don't worry, only my English Teacher...) have increased the homework load in an attempt to finish off the term with a final assignment and thus today, I find myself desperately finishing (or starting, as a matter of fact!) my Media Literacy Assignment, which is to analyze two advertisements.
Sounds easy? Well, it actually is easy, but because I'm an overachiever, I'm going to analyze three advertisements, each found in three different forms of media (magazines, Internet, and television). I have already found these ads (television ad featuring Dwyane Wade and Michael Jordan selling basketball shoes, a magazine ad by WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) which demotes golf-courses and raises awareness on the losses of habitation, especially trees, and an Internet ad which demotes smoking and raises awareness on the consequences of smoking). Currently, I have four hours to complete this assignment, as well as practise my clarinet solo and write out Christmas Cards for my teachers...
Luckily, I have no ICS Homework. The task of circling the screen with specific colours was pretty simple and currently, I have finished all the advanced techniques assignments.
So for the rest of tonight, I will be feverishly progressing against my English Assignment and by the end of the Christmas, I'll have refined my "Snake Game" and have it ready in case the Culminating Activity requires us to create and complete a Turing game...
That's all for today...
btw (By the way, if you didn't know that btw meant By-the-way!)
Tomorrow will be the last post of 2010!
Sounds easy? Well, it actually is easy, but because I'm an overachiever, I'm going to analyze three advertisements, each found in three different forms of media (magazines, Internet, and television). I have already found these ads (television ad featuring Dwyane Wade and Michael Jordan selling basketball shoes, a magazine ad by WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) which demotes golf-courses and raises awareness on the losses of habitation, especially trees, and an Internet ad which demotes smoking and raises awareness on the consequences of smoking). Currently, I have four hours to complete this assignment, as well as practise my clarinet solo and write out Christmas Cards for my teachers...
Luckily, I have no ICS Homework. The task of circling the screen with specific colours was pretty simple and currently, I have finished all the advanced techniques assignments.
So for the rest of tonight, I will be feverishly progressing against my English Assignment and by the end of the Christmas, I'll have refined my "Snake Game" and have it ready in case the Culminating Activity requires us to create and complete a Turing game...
That's all for today...
btw (By the way, if you didn't know that btw meant By-the-way!)
Tomorrow will be the last post of 2010!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Wednesday 15 December, 2010
I think that I got busted today...
Today in class, I was editing my "Snake Game" because I had finished creating the "Bouncing Character" Assignment and I had nothing else to do. Sadly, Mr. Arkin saw me testing out my new features (installing a continuously-growing tail to the snake) and suspected that I was playing someone else's "game." As you know, I have spent nearly 5 hours working on my "Snake Game" and did not copy it from any website so the game was completely programmed by your's truly. I think that I'll take this as a sign to stop working on my Snake Game in class and save it for the holidays...
Anyways, we were assigned a new task to complete for tonight; moving the character around the 4 corners of the screen. I already accomplished that so now I need to make the laps around the screen diminish with each new lap...
That should take around 30 minutes to complete...and I'll use the remainder of tonight (3 hours) to catch up on piano, practice my clarinet solo, and start on my English Media Assignment which was assigned yesterday and is due on Friday!
That's all for today (pretty short, huh?)!
Today in class, I was editing my "Snake Game" because I had finished creating the "Bouncing Character" Assignment and I had nothing else to do. Sadly, Mr. Arkin saw me testing out my new features (installing a continuously-growing tail to the snake) and suspected that I was playing someone else's "game." As you know, I have spent nearly 5 hours working on my "Snake Game" and did not copy it from any website so the game was completely programmed by your's truly. I think that I'll take this as a sign to stop working on my Snake Game in class and save it for the holidays...
Anyways, we were assigned a new task to complete for tonight; moving the character around the 4 corners of the screen. I already accomplished that so now I need to make the laps around the screen diminish with each new lap...
That should take around 30 minutes to complete...and I'll use the remainder of tonight (3 hours) to catch up on piano, practice my clarinet solo, and start on my English Media Assignment which was assigned yesterday and is due on Friday!
That's all for today (pretty short, huh?)!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tuesday 14 December, 2010
Yay!
It's my 64th post (although I'm not sure why this is important...)!
Anyways, today everyone received their ICS Programming Test #2 back and I have to say that I am shocked! I'm happy with my mark, but I'm confused about how I received them.
I knew that I would lose marks on Question 6 because I used the name "length" for one of my variable identifiers, yet I only lost half a mark for using var in my parameters. Honestly, I thought that I would lose more marks on Question 6 and ace everything else, but it turns out that I messed Question 1 up really badly! I only received 0.5 marks for my efforts even though I mentioned seperating words by underscores and all the details, but now that I think about it, I missed the whole point of the Question.
Question #1 asked for the rules, not good programming etiquette. I provided the latter, resulting in the mediocre mark. The model answer consisted of mentioning that the identifier can be of any length, must start with a letter, and can be composed of any characters. That would have received more marks and I know that I goofed that part up on way to a score of 21!
A 21/24 wasn't what I expected (I thought that I would score a 20!), but I can't really argue with this mark probably because I know that I received more than what I think I deserved... Percentage-wise, an 87.5 is average and brings my whole ICS Mark down to an 89.75, a few marks away from a 90. Now, I'll work harder to raise my average up...
A good start would be polishing my Snake Game, which I have not worked on since yesterday. With the introduction to more advanced programming techniques, I can show everyone what I am capable of, mainly the game/s that I created, although they're not that great compared to David, Felix, and Zelin's games.
Today, we had to write a program which "bounced" a character around the screen. I had planned my time to finish this assignment in 30 minutes, and I did just that, although this post is taking another 10 minutes and hindering my time saved for polishing my essay. I used multiple boolean variables and many if and loop bodies so that in the end, I was very confused by the ...
end loop
end if
end loop
etc...
At first, when I ran the program, the characters kept on disappearing as the character was bouncing back towards the start. Then, my desk-checking (20 seconds of it!) revealed that after I put the character, the cursor would have been moved to the next line, and thus I added a ".." to four sections of my code in which each section controls either the up or down movement from either the first or last columns. Now, the program works perfectly and I'm going to print it out and finish editing my essay before 12 am and turn-it-in to TURNITIN.COM and go to bed early for swimming tomorrow and prepare my clarinet solo for the Christmas Assembly and...(GASP, GASP, PANT, PANT...)
That's all for today!
It's my 64th post (although I'm not sure why this is important...)!
Anyways, today everyone received their ICS Programming Test #2 back and I have to say that I am shocked! I'm happy with my mark, but I'm confused about how I received them.
I knew that I would lose marks on Question 6 because I used the name "length" for one of my variable identifiers, yet I only lost half a mark for using var in my parameters. Honestly, I thought that I would lose more marks on Question 6 and ace everything else, but it turns out that I messed Question 1 up really badly! I only received 0.5 marks for my efforts even though I mentioned seperating words by underscores and all the details, but now that I think about it, I missed the whole point of the Question.
Question #1 asked for the rules, not good programming etiquette. I provided the latter, resulting in the mediocre mark. The model answer consisted of mentioning that the identifier can be of any length, must start with a letter, and can be composed of any characters. That would have received more marks and I know that I goofed that part up on way to a score of 21!
A 21/24 wasn't what I expected (I thought that I would score a 20!), but I can't really argue with this mark probably because I know that I received more than what I think I deserved... Percentage-wise, an 87.5 is average and brings my whole ICS Mark down to an 89.75, a few marks away from a 90. Now, I'll work harder to raise my average up...
A good start would be polishing my Snake Game, which I have not worked on since yesterday. With the introduction to more advanced programming techniques, I can show everyone what I am capable of, mainly the game/s that I created, although they're not that great compared to David, Felix, and Zelin's games.
Today, we had to write a program which "bounced" a character around the screen. I had planned my time to finish this assignment in 30 minutes, and I did just that, although this post is taking another 10 minutes and hindering my time saved for polishing my essay. I used multiple boolean variables and many if and loop bodies so that in the end, I was very confused by the ...
end loop
end if
end loop
etc...
At first, when I ran the program, the characters kept on disappearing as the character was bouncing back towards the start. Then, my desk-checking (20 seconds of it!) revealed that after I put the character, the cursor would have been moved to the next line, and thus I added a ".." to four sections of my code in which each section controls either the up or down movement from either the first or last columns. Now, the program works perfectly and I'm going to print it out and finish editing my essay before 12 am and turn-it-in to TURNITIN.COM and go to bed early for swimming tomorrow and prepare my clarinet solo for the Christmas Assembly and...(GASP, GASP, PANT, PANT...)
That's all for today!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Monday 12 December, 2010
This is a double post...
YAY!!!
I am only posting to alert all of my blog followers (none, except for Mr. Arkin...) that I have succeeded in making the "snake" in my game move without having the user press down keys. Instead, the keys are used to change the direction. Of course, I used boolean values; without them, this wouldn`t be possible! Anyways, it only took one successful try and now, I am very happy!!!
YAY!!!
I am only posting to alert all of my blog followers (none, except for Mr. Arkin...) that I have succeeded in making the "snake" in my game move without having the user press down keys. Instead, the keys are used to change the direction. Of course, I used boolean values; without them, this wouldn`t be possible! Anyways, it only took one successful try and now, I am very happy!!!
Monday 12 December, 2010
I apologize for not posting on Friday 10 December because on that day, I missed the second half of school and did not attend ICS Class.
Today, we had the much anticipated Programming Test #2. Sadly, I really messed up my test. I could have scored perfect because the test was simple, but for the final part of the test, we had to write functions and call them into action. Sadly, I fell for the trick and declared a variable called length. Identifiers cannot have the same name as keywords, and that's where I messed up on. If the program was executed, then there would be errors, because I named one of my variables the same name as a built-in function. Besides that mistake, the rest of the test was straightforward and I'm confident that I didn't lose any marks anywhere else. The mistake that I made costed me at least 2 marks and at most 6 marks, so my grade ranges from 75%-91%. I am very angry at myself for not taking this opportunity to boost my mark and now I'll have to work harder to bring my mark up.
Luckily, I have a head start into the final leg of the ICS race. That is, I know how to make a flash game (well, not really). Anyways, like I mentioned before, I created a program which features the user attempting to control the movement of a square and make it to the end of each level. The game works perfectly now, although I'm not sure how I'll reduce the code line because each level is completely different and requires a completely different set of code (currently, my program is 1000+ lines for 3 levels). Therefore, I am going to stop working on this game and focus on another game that I have started to program.
My other game features the user, a circle, attempting to "eat" circles that randomly appear on the screen. Each time a circle is "eaten", another circle is added to the tail of the circle that the user controls (like the snakes game). If the user touches its own tail, a red circle, or the edges of the screen, then the game is over. The circles that appear feature random colours, with less frequent colours worth more points. This game is very difficult to make, due to the complexity required to control the movement of the circles which trail the main circle. When the user changes directions, the whole tail changes directions too and is consistently following the main circle. Also, if the user hits its own tail, then the game is also over. Determining the hit is easy, but because the number of circles in its tail increases, you would have to create an array of n value where n would equal the maximum number of circles the tail can be comprised of and ...
It's all very confusing, and I'm not sure if I'll successfully complete this game, but that's what the Christmas Break is for, right?
Anyways, I better hurry and finish polishing my essay, which is due at midnight, tomorrow.
That's all for today (YAY!!! NO ICS HOMEWORK!!!)!
Today, we had the much anticipated Programming Test #2. Sadly, I really messed up my test. I could have scored perfect because the test was simple, but for the final part of the test, we had to write functions and call them into action. Sadly, I fell for the trick and declared a variable called length. Identifiers cannot have the same name as keywords, and that's where I messed up on. If the program was executed, then there would be errors, because I named one of my variables the same name as a built-in function. Besides that mistake, the rest of the test was straightforward and I'm confident that I didn't lose any marks anywhere else. The mistake that I made costed me at least 2 marks and at most 6 marks, so my grade ranges from 75%-91%. I am very angry at myself for not taking this opportunity to boost my mark and now I'll have to work harder to bring my mark up.
Luckily, I have a head start into the final leg of the ICS race. That is, I know how to make a flash game (well, not really). Anyways, like I mentioned before, I created a program which features the user attempting to control the movement of a square and make it to the end of each level. The game works perfectly now, although I'm not sure how I'll reduce the code line because each level is completely different and requires a completely different set of code (currently, my program is 1000+ lines for 3 levels). Therefore, I am going to stop working on this game and focus on another game that I have started to program.
My other game features the user, a circle, attempting to "eat" circles that randomly appear on the screen. Each time a circle is "eaten", another circle is added to the tail of the circle that the user controls (like the snakes game). If the user touches its own tail, a red circle, or the edges of the screen, then the game is over. The circles that appear feature random colours, with less frequent colours worth more points. This game is very difficult to make, due to the complexity required to control the movement of the circles which trail the main circle. When the user changes directions, the whole tail changes directions too and is consistently following the main circle. Also, if the user hits its own tail, then the game is also over. Determining the hit is easy, but because the number of circles in its tail increases, you would have to create an array of n value where n would equal the maximum number of circles the tail can be comprised of and ...
It's all very confusing, and I'm not sure if I'll successfully complete this game, but that's what the Christmas Break is for, right?
Anyways, I better hurry and finish polishing my essay, which is due at midnight, tomorrow.
That's all for today (YAY!!! NO ICS HOMEWORK!!!)!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thursday 9 December, 2010
One more day...
Tomorrow's my exam and I hope that I'll have an easy exam because I have studied really hard over the last 3 months. With an easy exam (e.g. August 2010), I can score as low as 95, but with a hard exam (e.g. May 2010), I can score as high as an 85, so the range of scores is vast. I know all of my terms with extreme confidence, but the only part that worries me is the essay component, worth 20 marks. Depending on the topics, I can score anyway between 10-20, so for the remainder of tonight, I'll spend my time studying (once again!).
Today in ICS, we worked in peer tutoring groups. I worked with Kevin and Bonnie (the three of us went to the swim meet yesterday) and spent the whole class trying to help Bonnie understand procedures and functions and helped Kevin with his code a bit.
I'll keep today's post really short, because I still have a lot of reviewing to do...
That's all for today...:(
On the contrary, after tomorrow has passed, I still have AN ENGLISH ESSAY AND PROGRAMMING TEST!!! YAY!!!
Tomorrow's my exam and I hope that I'll have an easy exam because I have studied really hard over the last 3 months. With an easy exam (e.g. August 2010), I can score as low as 95, but with a hard exam (e.g. May 2010), I can score as high as an 85, so the range of scores is vast. I know all of my terms with extreme confidence, but the only part that worries me is the essay component, worth 20 marks. Depending on the topics, I can score anyway between 10-20, so for the remainder of tonight, I'll spend my time studying (once again!).
Today in ICS, we worked in peer tutoring groups. I worked with Kevin and Bonnie (the three of us went to the swim meet yesterday) and spent the whole class trying to help Bonnie understand procedures and functions and helped Kevin with his code a bit.
I'll keep today's post really short, because I still have a lot of reviewing to do...
That's all for today...:(
On the contrary, after tomorrow has passed, I still have AN ENGLISH ESSAY AND PROGRAMMING TEST!!! YAY!!!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday 8 December, 2010
ahh...
Polonaise in A Flat Major (Heroic) op. 53 by Frederich Chopin sounds amazing...
Currently, I am listening to musical excerpts from specific pieces in which I have to study for my music exam. Listening to Classical and Romantic music is an extraordinary blessing that should not be abused by listening to Hip Hop, Rap, etc, consistently. Sadly, I do not have the guts to create a playlist from Youtube featuring the all-time favourites from the Classical and Romantic eras because I would be severely critisized by my friends and that I do not work as efficiently when music is played, so I avoid Studio 218 as much as possible!
Anyways, today I stayed at school until 12 o'clock, when I had to leave for York Mills C.I. for a swim meet. I raced in 100m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, and 200m freestyle relay. Surprisingly, I came third in my heat for every event, which isn't too bad considering that everyone I faced was a Grade 10 and that I always lost to the first place finisher by 2 or less secondss. For the relay, I swam as anchor (oh dear, probably because I was the fastest swimmer in my relay team) and gave up a half-body lead over the York Mills swimmer and finished at the exact same time (he was a 10th Grader)...
I missed today's ICS class, but I had my friend Yaasir fill me in on what we learned today. Based on his information, today in class, everyone learned about procedures. I spent an hour at home today to tutor myself and catch up (consequence of joining sport teams...). I declared many simple functions and procedures that ran simple tasks just to orient myself with the new terms and their capabilities and how they operate. I made a new Turing File called "Functions and Procedures.t" and included (yes, I know how to use the keyword include) the file in my Substrings Assignment Question 9 and finished the required homework of creating the nextConsonant function.
Now that I have caught up, it's time for me to continue studying for my exam by listening to Debussy's L'apres-midi d'un faune (which I was listening to while I was posting).
It is such a beautiful and dreamy piece of music, but then again, what would you expect from Debussy?
Anyways, that's all for today!
Polonaise in A Flat Major (Heroic) op. 53 by Frederich Chopin sounds amazing...
Currently, I am listening to musical excerpts from specific pieces in which I have to study for my music exam. Listening to Classical and Romantic music is an extraordinary blessing that should not be abused by listening to Hip Hop, Rap, etc, consistently. Sadly, I do not have the guts to create a playlist from Youtube featuring the all-time favourites from the Classical and Romantic eras because I would be severely critisized by my friends and that I do not work as efficiently when music is played, so I avoid Studio 218 as much as possible!
Anyways, today I stayed at school until 12 o'clock, when I had to leave for York Mills C.I. for a swim meet. I raced in 100m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, and 200m freestyle relay. Surprisingly, I came third in my heat for every event, which isn't too bad considering that everyone I faced was a Grade 10 and that I always lost to the first place finisher by 2 or less secondss. For the relay, I swam as anchor (oh dear, probably because I was the fastest swimmer in my relay team) and gave up a half-body lead over the York Mills swimmer and finished at the exact same time (he was a 10th Grader)...
I missed today's ICS class, but I had my friend Yaasir fill me in on what we learned today. Based on his information, today in class, everyone learned about procedures. I spent an hour at home today to tutor myself and catch up (consequence of joining sport teams...). I declared many simple functions and procedures that ran simple tasks just to orient myself with the new terms and their capabilities and how they operate. I made a new Turing File called "Functions and Procedures.t" and included (yes, I know how to use the keyword include) the file in my Substrings Assignment Question 9 and finished the required homework of creating the nextConsonant function.
Now that I have caught up, it's time for me to continue studying for my exam by listening to Debussy's L'apres-midi d'un faune (which I was listening to while I was posting).
It is such a beautiful and dreamy piece of music, but then again, what would you expect from Debussy?
Anyways, that's all for today!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Tuesday 7 December, 2010
just 3 more days...(sigh)
until my EXAM!!!
For the past two days, I have been vigorously studying for my music exam (outside of school). I have written 3 essays (3 pages each!) in preparation, although the exam can be completely different from what I expect. On the previous mock exams, my score ranged from 75-98, showing the range of difficulty between eaach season and year. The previous exam was easy (I scored 98), so I'm guessing that the December History III Exam will be hard...
Anyways, these last couple of days have been stressful (understatement)...
I've had to squeeze an extra hour into my already busy schedule to study for my exam. To make matters worse, today I had a chess game at Cardinal Newman H.S. (YIPPEE!!! WE WON 4-1) and tomorrow I have a swim meet at York Mills. My schedule cannot go any lighter, and to make matters worse, I have a surprise Substrings Assignment Test coming up (I have a hunch), an actual Programming Test coming up this week (do not know the date), an English Essay due at the end of the week (my essay stinks right now...), AND MY 3 HOUR MUSIC EXAM ON FRIDAY!!! Saturday features dual two hour classes of art and Chinese and another two hours to play piano and catch up on this week (I haven't played a single note yet...can't wait to get started on Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata which is 20 pages long...). On Sunday, I have a 3 HOUR ORCHESTRA PRACTICE AT THE CHINESE COMMUNITY CHURCH because our Chirstmas Eve performance is coming up soon...
If I can just survive this week, then I'll be happily celebrating my survival during the Christmas Break...uh-oh...
The CULMINATING ACTIVITIES AND FINAL EXAMS!!! :(
If you're still reading, u must be laughing ur socks off at my misery...
Anyways...
For today, we have to modify Questions 10-24 and include our own declared functions...
About an hour later, I'll post again and describe my progress...
Until then, goodbye...
until my EXAM!!!
For the past two days, I have been vigorously studying for my music exam (outside of school). I have written 3 essays (3 pages each!) in preparation, although the exam can be completely different from what I expect. On the previous mock exams, my score ranged from 75-98, showing the range of difficulty between eaach season and year. The previous exam was easy (I scored 98), so I'm guessing that the December History III Exam will be hard...
Anyways, these last couple of days have been stressful (understatement)...
I've had to squeeze an extra hour into my already busy schedule to study for my exam. To make matters worse, today I had a chess game at Cardinal Newman H.S. (YIPPEE!!! WE WON 4-1) and tomorrow I have a swim meet at York Mills. My schedule cannot go any lighter, and to make matters worse, I have a surprise Substrings Assignment Test coming up (I have a hunch), an actual Programming Test coming up this week (do not know the date), an English Essay due at the end of the week (my essay stinks right now...), AND MY 3 HOUR MUSIC EXAM ON FRIDAY!!! Saturday features dual two hour classes of art and Chinese and another two hours to play piano and catch up on this week (I haven't played a single note yet...can't wait to get started on Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata which is 20 pages long...). On Sunday, I have a 3 HOUR ORCHESTRA PRACTICE AT THE CHINESE COMMUNITY CHURCH because our Chirstmas Eve performance is coming up soon...
If I can just survive this week, then I'll be happily celebrating my survival during the Christmas Break...uh-oh...
The CULMINATING ACTIVITIES AND FINAL EXAMS!!! :(
If you're still reading, u must be laughing ur socks off at my misery...
Anyways...
For today, we have to modify Questions 10-24 and include our own declared functions...
About an hour later, I'll post again and describe my progress...
Until then, goodbye...
Monday, December 6, 2010
Monday 6 December, 2010
almost there...
JUST 4 MORE DAYS TILL MY MUSIC EXAM (gasp!)...
...and thus today, I took advantage of the half-day and studied for 3 hours!!!
Anyways...
Today, I had a swim meet in school and thus I missed the whole morning except fifteen minutes of ICS...
I competed in 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke (obviously lost in both races), but my times weren't that bad...(1:44 for breaststroke and 1:30 for freestyle). Anyways, the meet was fun (even though our medley team lost to the girls...pretty sad).
In ICS, Mr. Arkin returned. Yay!!! He taught the rest of the class how to use for and decreasing, two new keywords, for our Substrings Assignments. I already learned about for and when I got home today, I substitued the first Substring Question with for and understood how to use it. Decreasing is used to display the range of for in a descending order, so decreasing was useful for Substrings Assignment Question 2. I modified Question 9 to include all consonants in just two minutes! Basically, I grouped all the similar consonants together (in other words, all the consonants that are preceded by consonants, all the consonants that are preceded by vowels, and the letter "z", which is special). I ended up using case (like before) with 3 labels. I'm not sure if there's an easier way to do so, but I think that the efficiency of my method will suffice...
Right now, my head is killing me!!! All the studying that I spent today on Carmen, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor op. 67, and Messiah has had an ill effect on my brain. Like Mr. Arkin said, I'm cramming everything into my head, although with History 3, it's impossible to be fully prepared because the exam will be on anything in a 500 page textbook!!!
On top of that, I have a possible ICS Quiz and Test this week and I'm not sure of the date, although I'm pretty sure that we'll have it tomorrow...
Oh yeah...
Today, after we were dismissed from school, me, along with 2 other friends, went back to our old school to say hello to our teachers. In fact, we bought them doughnuts too!!! We spent about an hour at our old school and thus I got home at 2:20 feeling very sick and under the weather!!!
Right now, I still have another essay to write for English! Luckily, it only has to be 750 words long and I already completed the introduction :)
Lots of work to finish, lots of things to study, lots of tests coming up, lots of sleep that'll be needed tonight, and lots of luck that I can continue like this for 4 MORE YEARS!!!(YEAH BABY!!!):)
That's all for today...
JUST 4 MORE DAYS TILL MY MUSIC EXAM (gasp!)...
...and thus today, I took advantage of the half-day and studied for 3 hours!!!
Anyways...
Today, I had a swim meet in school and thus I missed the whole morning except fifteen minutes of ICS...
I competed in 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke (obviously lost in both races), but my times weren't that bad...(1:44 for breaststroke and 1:30 for freestyle). Anyways, the meet was fun (even though our medley team lost to the girls...pretty sad).
In ICS, Mr. Arkin returned. Yay!!! He taught the rest of the class how to use for and decreasing, two new keywords, for our Substrings Assignments. I already learned about for and when I got home today, I substitued the first Substring Question with for and understood how to use it. Decreasing is used to display the range of for in a descending order, so decreasing was useful for Substrings Assignment Question 2. I modified Question 9 to include all consonants in just two minutes! Basically, I grouped all the similar consonants together (in other words, all the consonants that are preceded by consonants, all the consonants that are preceded by vowels, and the letter "z", which is special). I ended up using case (like before) with 3 labels. I'm not sure if there's an easier way to do so, but I think that the efficiency of my method will suffice...
Right now, my head is killing me!!! All the studying that I spent today on Carmen, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor op. 67, and Messiah has had an ill effect on my brain. Like Mr. Arkin said, I'm cramming everything into my head, although with History 3, it's impossible to be fully prepared because the exam will be on anything in a 500 page textbook!!!
On top of that, I have a possible ICS Quiz and Test this week and I'm not sure of the date, although I'm pretty sure that we'll have it tomorrow...
Oh yeah...
Today, after we were dismissed from school, me, along with 2 other friends, went back to our old school to say hello to our teachers. In fact, we bought them doughnuts too!!! We spent about an hour at our old school and thus I got home at 2:20 feeling very sick and under the weather!!!
Right now, I still have another essay to write for English! Luckily, it only has to be 750 words long and I already completed the introduction :)
Lots of work to finish, lots of things to study, lots of tests coming up, lots of sleep that'll be needed tonight, and lots of luck that I can continue like this for 4 MORE YEARS!!!(YEAH BABY!!!):)
That's all for today...
Friday, December 3, 2010
Friday 3 December, 2010
YIPPPPPEEEE!!!
Today, I finally finished all the Substrings Assignment Questions! I continued to help a few peers with their works (yes Andre, you know what I'm talking about). I took some time to understand the purpose of Questions 19-24 and figured out in less than 30 seconds of the top of my head how to complete the remaining 6 Questions! To centre the word, use (maxcol - length (word)) div 2 to determine the number of spaces on both sides of the centred words. So for now, I have no ICS Homework, except to study for the upcoming two tests...
Sadly, I won't be at school on Monday due to a SWIM MEET!!! It will be the first one this year, and members will be competing against other Victoria Park C.I. students in various events. I am going to compete in the Jr. Men's 100m freestyle and breaststroke... I'm not the fastest swimmer there (by far!) but I was actually one of the few Grade Nine Students besides Kevin, Ronny, Vlad, and Praveen who stuck with Swimming as everyone else had quit!
That's all for today (sadly, my posts are becoming shorter and shorter due to the decreased homework load)!
Today, I finally finished all the Substrings Assignment Questions! I continued to help a few peers with their works (yes Andre, you know what I'm talking about). I took some time to understand the purpose of Questions 19-24 and figured out in less than 30 seconds of the top of my head how to complete the remaining 6 Questions! To centre the word, use (maxcol - length (word)) div 2 to determine the number of spaces on both sides of the centred words. So for now, I have no ICS Homework, except to study for the upcoming two tests...
Sadly, I won't be at school on Monday due to a SWIM MEET!!! It will be the first one this year, and members will be competing against other Victoria Park C.I. students in various events. I am going to compete in the Jr. Men's 100m freestyle and breaststroke... I'm not the fastest swimmer there (by far!) but I was actually one of the few Grade Nine Students besides Kevin, Ronny, Vlad, and Praveen who stuck with Swimming as everyone else had quit!
That's all for today (sadly, my posts are becoming shorter and shorter due to the decreased homework load)!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Thursday 2 December, 2010
Hurray!!!
I spent the majority of today's class helping Kevin fix his game and some peers with some Substrings Assignment Questions. I explained to them how to use the ord and chr functions for certain Substrings Assignment Questions (specifically the ones that involve returning upper and lower cases). Therefore, I only had ten minutes to work on Substrings Assignment Questions and thus I had to complete most of it at home...however, at this time (9: 52), I have finished the first 17 Questions, surpassing the minimum of 15 Questions set by Mr. Arkin. I quickly glanced at the remaining Questions, however, they do not seem to be related to Substrings and other students have posted on Wikispaces regarding the actual purpose of those Questions, so for now, I'll just go to sleep, hope that I'll do well on tomorrow's Quiz, and...yeah!
That's all for today (there really wasn't anything special about today and thus today's post is a lot shorter than the previous ones...)!
I spent the majority of today's class helping Kevin fix his game and some peers with some Substrings Assignment Questions. I explained to them how to use the ord and chr functions for certain Substrings Assignment Questions (specifically the ones that involve returning upper and lower cases). Therefore, I only had ten minutes to work on Substrings Assignment Questions and thus I had to complete most of it at home...however, at this time (9: 52), I have finished the first 17 Questions, surpassing the minimum of 15 Questions set by Mr. Arkin. I quickly glanced at the remaining Questions, however, they do not seem to be related to Substrings and other students have posted on Wikispaces regarding the actual purpose of those Questions, so for now, I'll just go to sleep, hope that I'll do well on tomorrow's Quiz, and...yeah!
That's all for today (there really wasn't anything special about today and thus today's post is a lot shorter than the previous ones...)!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wednesday 1 December, 2010
YAY!!! IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER!!!
There's only 10 days left until my History Exam (YIKES!!!), 17 days left until school is out (AWESOME!!!), 24 days left until Christmas (EVEN MORE AWESOME!!!), 26 days left until the best day of this year, 30 more days until the end of 2010 (approaching 2012...), and 2 months left until the dreaded final exam (SUPER-YIKES!!!)...
Just to sum it all up, the next 2 months are going to be filled with action like a roller-coaster ride (Kingda Ka specifically!!!). Until then, I'll have to study hard...
Today's post will be extremely short, because a) I missed today`s morning class except for five minutes of silent reading because I was involved in the Victoria Park pep rally!!! For the whole first period, I, along with other athletes from fall sports-teams, engaged in cheering and raising the spirits of every student in the school, grade by grade and thus we had to perform (more or less improvise...) three times for different audiences.
b) After school, I had a chess match at Don Mills C.I. The chess team had to bus all the way to DMCI!!! By the time we got there and actually began our matches, it was 4:20!!! Players were allotted 45 minutes each and thus the maximum time limit of one match is 90 minutes. My match was long and tense, with the final time on each player`s clock at 3 minutes!!! In the end however, I won the match and our team defeated Don Mills 4-1 (GO VP!!!)
After the chess match (5:30), I had to bus home!!! It took another hour to get home and after dinner and an hour`s practice of piano, it was 8:30. I had no time to work on my game today, nor the Substrings Assignments, however, currently, I have finished the first 11 Assignments. With a full period tomorrow, I`ll expect myself to complete Substrings Assignments 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, thus surpassing the bar that Mr. Arkin had set for us, although I`ll finish all the Substrings Assignments if I have time.
On Friday, we will be tested on Substrings, so until then, I`ll continue studying for the upcoming Substrings Quiz and the Programming Test next week!
That`s all for today (it turned out that this post is no shorter than any other!!!)...
There's only 10 days left until my History Exam (YIKES!!!), 17 days left until school is out (AWESOME!!!), 24 days left until Christmas (EVEN MORE AWESOME!!!), 26 days left until the best day of this year, 30 more days until the end of 2010 (approaching 2012...), and 2 months left until the dreaded final exam (SUPER-YIKES!!!)...
Just to sum it all up, the next 2 months are going to be filled with action like a roller-coaster ride (Kingda Ka specifically!!!). Until then, I'll have to study hard...
Today's post will be extremely short, because a) I missed today`s morning class except for five minutes of silent reading because I was involved in the Victoria Park pep rally!!! For the whole first period, I, along with other athletes from fall sports-teams, engaged in cheering and raising the spirits of every student in the school, grade by grade and thus we had to perform (more or less improvise...) three times for different audiences.
b) After school, I had a chess match at Don Mills C.I. The chess team had to bus all the way to DMCI!!! By the time we got there and actually began our matches, it was 4:20!!! Players were allotted 45 minutes each and thus the maximum time limit of one match is 90 minutes. My match was long and tense, with the final time on each player`s clock at 3 minutes!!! In the end however, I won the match and our team defeated Don Mills 4-1 (GO VP!!!)
After the chess match (5:30), I had to bus home!!! It took another hour to get home and after dinner and an hour`s practice of piano, it was 8:30. I had no time to work on my game today, nor the Substrings Assignments, however, currently, I have finished the first 11 Assignments. With a full period tomorrow, I`ll expect myself to complete Substrings Assignments 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, thus surpassing the bar that Mr. Arkin had set for us, although I`ll finish all the Substrings Assignments if I have time.
On Friday, we will be tested on Substrings, so until then, I`ll continue studying for the upcoming Substrings Quiz and the Programming Test next week!
That`s all for today (it turned out that this post is no shorter than any other!!!)...
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