No class

There isn't much to blog about what happened in class because I missed almost 3/4 of the period because of my picture. I was only able to copy the last (I believe) 5 definitions. I did get the chance to get them from a friend and catch up though, so that I could finish the homework. But, I was surprised that we had to do another glossary. I thought that there is usually only one glossary but then again these are just assignments. I was able finish my skeleton for this assignment tonight and I was able to validate it which is all great news. The only problem I had tonight was that I was unable to upload my previous glossary because apprently the host is wrong. I wasn't here during class so I didn't get to upload it and I couldn't upload it last night because I was already asleep or off the computer by the time we got the messages. So, I am going to have to talk to Mr. Arkin about that tomorrow. I also like dropbox. it is very helpful but I still keep a copy of my work on my USB key. I think that's it! I hope this new glossary turns out good and I hope that I can get my files uploaded using Filezilla tomorrow. Please!!!

glossary due

Wow! What a stressful night. I was very panicked if I would finish in time since my references took a while. But, i ended up finishing in time, to discover that Firezilla is not working. There were so many complaints on wikispaces that it wasn't working for them. I also talked to some of my friends who told me it wasn't working either. By reading the protocols when i tried to login, it said that it is a private user and that anonymus users can not access this host. It told me that more than 300 users where unable to login. I think that maybe we are unable to use the host since we are uploading it from our computers at home. We will just have to see when we get to class tomorrow. I hope that we at least have some luck for tomorrow. Let's hope!

Work Period

Today was an interesting class. We had a whole period of work and i got a lot done. I was really able to use the class time usefully. I finished a lot of my work and i am almost done typing up all of  my informal definitions. I just need to get my formal ones done which is a great progress report compared to my previous assignment. I wonder when this is due? Hmmm...I am hoping to get a lot more done next work period and to learn a lot more with our class notes. I had time to work a little but not as much as usual since i was very busy this evening. Sorry! We didn't have any homework so I don't have an update on that but dropbox is very useful. I am so surprised at how much we have learned in such a small gap. Wow!

Starting a new assignment

Today, I was hoping to here some sort of news about our website assignments but Mr.Arkin hadn't said much about the assignment except for the fact that alot of people did not hand it in on time. I am hoping to hear about it soon though.
Today we started our next assignment but I founnd that it was fairly easy since we have already gotten used to the idea after our first assignment with the autobiography which was torture to get use to. I think that it will be much easier han all the trouble I had to go through for the first assignment. But, I am not exactly sure if it is actually an assignment or just work. Hmmmm.... I found that working with a partner to come up with the informal definitions because as they say two heads is better than one. This is true since with both the brain of myself and my partner, we were able to finish all of the informal definitions within the class period which is great news. I found some of my informal definitions on teh touque website, too. I did all of my homework and even the dropbox program looks very interesting and very helpful. I have downloaded it, and made my account, I'm just hoping that it is as great as it is said to be. I have to make a few more changes to my glossary and then I am good. YAH!

I am dne with the website

Wow, we are finally done with the website! I am very relaxed now that I am done with our websites. I was very pleased with the marks I received from my peer marker aswell. i am just waiting on Mr. Arkin's evaluation. i am hoping that i get a good mark from him, too. I spent alot of time to get the website done and i hope that all my hardwork pay off in the end. I am looking forward to the new assignments that we will be getting in ICS and I think that it will be fun. I really appreciated the time Mr.Arkin gave us in class yesterday. It was very helpful. I can't wait for my marks and I hope I am happy with them. Let's hope! And I'm even smiling at it with a red nose!

The website is due tomorrow

Wow! I can't believe that we are already here to the dealine. It seems like such little time but that we have learned sooo mcuh. I am very happy because i am on track again all because of my problem free week. I have everything validated, my autobiography done, images and links done and and so much more. The only thing I have left to do is to edit my page from grammer errors which I will try and do tomorrow morning before school and I also have to get a peer marking. Aswell, I need to check if I am missing anything on my webpage before I give it to my peer marker. I am actually happy that I have finished most of it already that way I won't have to panic tomorrow night. but, instead i can simply work on my other peices of homework or just relax. Oh, I also need to upload my final copy of my webpage beforeI leave class tomorrow since my firezilla at home does not open properly. I am much more relaxed now surprisingly than I was last week. I am excited and nervous to see the outcome of my website marks but, I am hoping I get a good mark. I love my website but, the one thing that disappoints me is that I couldn't make it look more professional since I had to put a white background so that the images would look properly integrated. Maybe I will get the chance to fix that tomorrow. But, it is better to have my images properly integrated and the background is not the only thing that makes it look professional. I hope that everything goes well with this assignment! Thank you so much to so many people especially God for helping me get through this. I couln't have done it without you! I had so much trouble and yet know I am here done and owning a great webpage.

Almost to the dead line

Wow! I finally got my webpage live onto the web which I was very happy about. I worked for around 3 hours today on my website  at home and I ended up writing a lot. Basically I run a super school which means that I had to write alot to provide enough information. It took time but it was worth it. I just really really hope that I get a good mark on this assignemnt since it is my first assignemnt for computer science. When I look back at the last two weeks of school that passed by it all seems worth it. At the beginning when I started my assignment, it was very difficult to understand and I was like a magnet towarsds trouble and problems. But, then I had finally started to progress starting this weekend and now at this moment the world makes sense again. I am just sooo happy about finally breaking through the ice. There were three things that had truly helped me get this far: God, Mr.Arkin and myself for not giving up. I have worked really hard on this autobiography assignment and I just hope that my webpage will look somewhat professional and that I will get a good mark from both my peer and Mr. Arkin. There are four things that I need to focus on for tomorrow:

1. Making my CSS better
2. Puting images onto my webpage and properly intergrating it
3. Reviewing the marking scheme to make sure that my website follows it
4. Getting my webpage peer marked

I believe that god will be with me and will reward me in the way that he thinks I deserve.

A calm day

Wow! I was very surprised by how calm our class was today. It didn't seem like Mr. Arkin came across many problems which means that we are all on the right track and getting going on this. YAH! I am very happy that I am also finally moving up ahead with my work. In class, I worked on one thing but yet had not succeeded due to problems. Sometimes I feel like I'm a magnet that attracts problems when it comes to Computer Science. My one goal for the morning was to get my website live on the web using Filezilla. I had alot of help from some great friends! But, the problem I came across was that when I dragged my folder, it said that it was successfully loaded but it didnt appear. I had thought that maybe I had put it into someone else's file but when I checked each folder I couldn't find mine. I really hope that I can fix it for at least next class. That way I can finish my autobiography and my website. I am hoping that I will make the deadline. But, I am not sure if the deadline is Thursday is the due date since he said that he would like to wrap things up by then. I am praying! Hmmm...

My website

I GOT MY WEBSITE VALIDATED FINALLY!!! I also got my assignment page validated, too. I am soooooooooooo happy. When it finally validated, I started jumping and dancing all around the house. I'm so happy because I have been trying for the past week to get my index.html validated but there was always some sort of conlict and now it finally worked. Mr. Arkin's tip about retyping the whole thing worked! It was alot of work but worth it. I am just so happy. All I need to do is put it live on the web! But, there is a problem with that too. I installed filezilla but it won't open. So, I will just have to upload it at school. Then, I can finally do everything else and I will be on the same track as everyone else! The amount of my happiness is unexplainable! The last day on Friday really helped me break through the ice.

During the last class, I think the character attributes Mr.Arkin showed us, will really help me later on through out making my website and organized too with the bullet points. I am really happy and looking forward to getting my page live on the web and doing more with my website. Thank you God and Mr. Arkin!

Why won't my document validate???

There isn't much to say about today's class. At the beginning of teh class, when Mr. Arkin taught us the keyboard keys that could make our jobs easier and faster when working on the computer, it did help. I beleive that Iwill be able to use these techniques. This period Iworked on fixing the errors on my page and then trying to validate my index.html. But. when I tried it still told me that I had 16 errors even though I had made corrections and followed the html template. I am hoping that Mr. Arkin can take a look at tomorrow and that way I can get it validated and on the web. I looked to see if i missed anything using the index.html of other students who did get their index.html's validated, but it was the exact same. When I tried again after. It said that it couldn't verify the document. It is really confusing right now. I just need to take care of this problem and it would be like the world made sense again and I could carry on with the rest of my work. I hope I get this solved so that I can get on with the rest of the website over the weekend and possibly finish my whole site. I am a very hopeful person!

Frustration!!! Stress!!! Confusion!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Uhhh, it all seems so much more frustrating. At the beginning of class, I was completly fine with it but once Mr.Arkin told us all of the possible errors that we could have, there were so many! It's almost like I have to do alot of it again. But, I only have a few more things to accomplish before I perfect my assignement. I couldn't validitate my webpage because it kept saying errors and when I changed them, they wouldn't change on the actual web page. Some of the stuff I still ned to do are:

• do the autbiography
• create a few more external and internal links
• upload my webpage and put it live
• link my autobiograph webpage to my index.html
• +more

I am really worried because everything seems to be so confusing and I really want to understand this all. I am going to try and get some help at luck or after school if it is available sometime this week. I am praying that I will soon understand and get the hang of it all...

Making my home page

Sorry, I didn't post on my blog yesterday, my internet was down again. But, it is up again. I am sorry but it may do this often. I am working on fixing it. Our signal is just really weak since we changed it recently.

So today, was an unexpected day and I got alot of work done again. I created a home page to post all my assignments including my super power autobiography that I still have to do put have all the effects ready to go. But, when I linked the autobiography to the home page at school, it worked but when I got home and tried to press the link it said the page was unavailable. So I am going to go to and ask Mr. Arkin tomorrow but I am supposing that I didnt link it properly. Other than that one mall function it is fine, I just need to write my autobiography. Oh, I did try to get it up on Filezilla and upload it again but yet again it didnt work. I am going to have to get some help with that, too.  So, in other words I am going to need alot of help tomorrow. I am hoping that everything will go great tomorrow and that it's all good. I also hope that my hardwork pays off.

I noticed that once you get the hang of it, making webpages and designing them, isn't that hard. I am looking forward to making it even better. Hope it comes out good!!!

Past 2 days without Mr.Arkin

I am so sorry that I havn't wrote for the past two days because my computer has been having internet connection problems (both of them). So I will just write the blog for both of them today as one.

Thursday, was a kind of slow day for my work since I had to reset my password. It took some time to reset it so I had to wait. When i started the assignment it seemed so confusing...I had to keep asking for help. but, then once I kept practicing, I got the hang of it and created a very simple webpage by the end of the class.

On Friday, I also had a kind of slow day again with my work since we had a new student in class today named Ada. I offered to give her a run through everything and I had to go down and reset the password for her and get her started. but, even though, I started late, I procressed alot in my animation schemes and design techniques. I was able to add more affect to my webpage and make it much more beautiful. I was able to put in a backgrounnd image, make my font sizes different and create a border. I had alot of fun!

I think that I am really going to enjoy this course once I get the hang of it. It seems like a lot of fun. I am hoping to learn alot more about computers and i am looking forward to more assignments.

I have one question about the homework though. Do we have to write on our blog even on the weekends or just school days?

Crazy jam packed head exploding lesson!

Today's lesson was alot to handle and very chaotic. When Mr. Arkin was talking about blood oosing out of our ears at the end of teh period, I could actually feel my ears pop from all the pressure.  I am usually really comfortable with computers but after today's lesson it was too much to handle. But, I think the notes are really going to help me get through it all. I am actually really excited about making my own webpage that I can put live on the web! I don't know what I will post on my website yet but I will probably think of something. At first the lesson was going way to fast that I couldn't keep up with Mr. Arkin. I was writng too slow and missed a few points, but I was able to get them from a friend. The best part was that once we got to the end, I understood what the whole lesson was about and that it really wasn't that hard to understand. It's just symbols and names! I am probably going to get started or at least review our super-power assignment and take a look at what I will be working on tomorrow. I'm excited for tomorrow's lesson to get started and learn more about making websites and webpages. I hope that regular days of computer science are not this hectic! :-)

First day of computer science

What a first day of school! I was really nervous at first, but all of my classes ended up being great. Some people told me that computer science is harder than it seems and that it's a tough course but with the amazing introduction today I think I will be fine. I think that it will be a very interesting course! The introduction that was done today was really good to start us off since it wasn't too much work nor too little. Our teacher, Mr. Arkin seems to really enjoy this class and seemes like a great teacher. I found the homework to be easy to follow. Luckily, the Daily Log had all the information in detail and precise instructions on how to complete our work. It was very easy to follow and finish. But, I did have trouble in on Wikispaces when adding our class wiki ( I didn't press the enter key). I was able to finish the homework in less than 30 min. I am looking forward to learning more about computers that could help me later in life!