A day without Mr.Arkin

Warning: Short blog

Mr.Arkin wasn't hear today...(tear drop). I miss him already. It just didn't feel right without him explaining our mistakes and helping us out. Especially, him making fun of Kevin everyday. Today was an interesting class. We had a full on work period where we were asked to clean up all of our glossaries so that they're ready for marking. Our homework is to finish up all of the selection assignments for Monday and of course do our blogs. We are also allowed to clean-up our websites over the weekend. Have a great weekend guys!

Programming catch-up and cleaning

We had a work period today where we just catched up on all of our assignments from programming. At the beginning of the class. Mr.Arkin handed us back our quiz which I got a level 4 on which is good. I did make a few minor mistakes but I still got a level 4. Yay! After that, all we did was pretty much work independantly. I caught up on my assignments with the help of Grace and Mr.Arkin who helped me find out why my programs wouldn't run (some of them). I am now completing selction assignment #8 (I think). I am going to try and finish as much as I can tonight. Mr.Arkin informed us that he will not be here tomorrow which means we have to be on our best behaviour. He already told us what we should be doing tomorrow which is to clean-up our websites which means they have to follow his marking page and be valid because he would like all the touque sites to be valid. I guess it is another work period. I wanted to do Studio 218 for tomorrow but I am unalel to make a playlist on youtube because I don't have an account. Even when I tried to, it said there was an error on the page even after I tried several times. Sorry! I hope we do Studio 218 tomorrow though. I am not sure we will be allowed since Mr.Arkin is not here tomorrow. Let's be on our best behaviour and make Mr.Arkin proud to have a class like us! Oh and I can't wait to see everyone's costumes tomorrow! Mine is a surprise!

Ahhhhhh!

Eieeieieie!!!! I am having so much trouble with the homework. I was so confused. Luckily, I was able to get my hands on Natasha who was a big help. I found it to be very confusing. I discovered that I was having trouble because I did not understand how to use "elsif" but I do now! Yay!

In class, we had a pop quiz! Yes, a pop quiz and this time we did not know. We got a different question than the other students from yesterday. We had to use what we learned in clas syesterday. I think I will get a good mark! But, I did not write part of it in cursive which I am hoping does not make me loose any marks nor did I write a comment at the beginning of each section.

We learned about boolean algebra and the truth tables which I found in the first case were a lot like multiplying positives and negatives. It was actually some what helpful. We also most importantly and helpful (for me) was that we learned about the " if ladders " and how to use "elsif". It was very helpful in figuring out how to do the rest of the selection assignments. I am still doing my homework and I have a lot more work to do so I  have to go. I have finished assignments 5 and 6 now I just need to do assignment 7, edit 5 and then print them. Bye!

Almost pop quiz!

I got new earphones for my i-pod! Finally!

Anyways, we were supposed to have a "pop" quiz today on input but then when we got to class, someone (not sure who) revealed that we already knew about the pop quiz. Therefore, Mr.Arkin cancelled the quiz. It might be tomorrow, so I am getting ready. We learned about boolean operators and how to work with selection. It was actually a lot easier than I thought. Who knew the computer was so smart? It was really cool. It was just like writing an actual command. Wow! I am still amazed! We got about 20 minutes at the end of the period to work on the first two selection assignments which in my opinion were actually fairly easy. Hmmm... I printed them out to in class. So, I am pretty much done all of my Computer Science homework. Yay! I am still going to work on the rest though. Or at least try. Sorry, but that is all for today. I still have to finish all of my french homework and my health homework which happens to be to make my mom happy, write what I did and then read a booklet that tells what we will be doing for this unit in health. Stay tuned!

What a class!

You all know how much I comment on how fast Mr. Arkin can teach us so much in such little time. Well. today is a very serious day when I actually mean it. It was like 3 lessons all in one! Usually we wouldn't do this much! So shall I cut to the chase and tell you?

Today the class, started off by some questions and answers about the input assignments. Surprisingly nobody raised up their hand. Since there was nothing at hand Mr. Arkin skipped right to the lesson where we learned about tracing the execution. You may ask whatever do you mean by tracing the execution? Well, this means ( I learned this in class) that it is when you think like the computer. You go though your program fragments and look at what the computer takes in from it not what you want the computer to do. We were asked to actually go through the process of what the computer actually goes through to give us our results. It was very intriguing! I never knew that it was so much work but yet so difficult (yes, I know I do not make sense sometimes). It's like when I say "I know but I don't know" but in this case it's "It's easy but hard". A lot of people don't notice but it is hard for the computer to go through all of this work. Later, on after this we traced the execution of a partners' program. My partner was Grace and I can see how the computer thinks.

We then learned a little about the characters that are used such as operators and even about boolean operators. I was actually very confused with that when I tried to do the selection section of assignments but now it seems very easy. Yah! After, that we had ten minutes to just start on our homework but it actually wasn't as long as you would think when you are actually working. Well, that is pretty much it so log in tomorrow to get some more info!

Catching up!

Hey, blog readers! How are your weekends? I am actually having a regular one so there isn't much to comment on. Now, back to business! There actually isn't much to say because we did mostly one thing the whole class. We finally had Studio 218, where Carol brought some Korean music which I actually liked alot. Thank you! I have a friend who likes K-pop so I have listened to K-pop before. Basically, we had free time to work on our input assignments. At the beginning of the class, we had to close our eyes and rate how well we understood the unit. We were to pick a number from one to four. I picked the number three because I understood the unit but I was not crystal clear yet. After, we did this Mr.Arkin called the people who rated one or two so that he could help them out by reviewing everything from the unit. The other students such as myself, were working on our input assignments and possibly continuing with the selection assignments. I was able to finish two input assignments in that time. So, that is pretty much it blog readers.....catch you on Monday!

Marks!

When a student especially an I.B student like myself, starts screaming in their head when they see the words "marks". By this phrase you can probably guess that, we got back our marks for our super power autobiography assignment today. Most, of the students were actually very dissapointed by the marks and thought that Mr.Arkin is a hard grader, but I feel that he is only being fair since I noticed that he deducted the marks fairly. I was one of the students that got a mark above the average and I was actually surprised at how high my marks were compared to a lot of the other students. I noticed that from our class, the highest mark was a 45 out of 50 which is actually really good since it is 90 percent. So congrats to that student!

A lot of the student were confused about why they got their mark, which is why Mr.Arkin explained to us for the rest of the class, how he marked us and what to look out for when we are making our webpages. There was a lot of criteria he marked us on which now I understand why it took him so long to mark the work. Actually, I made several careless mistakes that I am going to keep in mind and fix for the future. I did fairly good though with my assignment so I am grateful.

Mr.Arkin has warned us before hand that he does not have tests until he hands back our marks and now that he has, he may surprise us with a pop quiz. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! I am terrible with pop quizes which is why I am starting to study already. Yah! I will not be here tomorrow so I am going to have to check out everyone's blogs to figure out what happened, so everyone stay up to date please!!! I would really appreciate it and so would Grace since she is coming on the trip, too!

For homework we were simply asked to continue our progress with our input assignment, do our daily blog and just start to get ready for the pop quiz. You never know when it will be!!!! Oooooooooo.......

No board work!

Sorry, but this is a short blog entry compared to my recent ones. I guess it's because we had a short class and we only focused on one thing that took up the whole period.

That one thing that we focused on in class was yesterday's homework. Specifically, we focused on assignment 4 of the input assignment. I am guessing that it was difficult for some of the other students and I happened to be one of those students. I did every question up to question 5 last night except 4 because I found it a bit difficult. But, after today's class I understood how it works out! I am now going to work on it soon in a little while after I post this blog entry. In class we just worked in groups of four and came up with the best solution for the question. We then, wrote them on the board and compared our solutions to find which one was best. For homework, we were told to just clean up our input assignments so they are under control. I just finished doing assignments 7 and 8. They were actually fairly easy though. Since I didn't finish question 5 last night, I am going to do that now.

Ok, guys I got to go and do the rest of my homework. Bye!!!
Tune in tomorrow!

Falling down!

(song) You, you're falling down, the world starts spinning round. You, you're falling down, now which? look all around. You, you're falling down, and you know I'll be around. You're falling down, falling down,
(Falling down, you're falling down, falling down) (song)

We are falling back guys! Some how we fell back one lesson behind the other classes. That's not exactly good because that means we will be given a bigger homework load to catch up and we will have a tighter lesson. That is exactly what happened today in computer science class. We had to learn a lot in one period. But, I don't think some of the boys in our class, were able to concentrate and understand because they were too scared of a wasp that was in our class room. They were running more than the bee was flying! Yes, it was a big one but even I am terrified of bees and wasps and for some odd reason, I did not freak out. Hmmmm.... I am going to have to look into that!

We learned about input today!!!!!!! Yayyyy! What I have been waiting for!!!!!!!!!!!! It was really confusing though at first but then I understood how it all works out, when I did my homework. We talking about all of the major sections which we also happened to take notes on during the weekend. Some of the sections we learned about were the declaration, processing, output and input sections. It was really interesting to see how easy it is to create a program using Turing. Who knew Turing could do soooo much work for us? It's great! We talked about how to input data and then get an answer and that was really interesting how we could just type from the keyboard and it would take the data from the keyboard and use it.
For homework, we were given the job to complete our blog (of course) as well as to complete # 1-3 of the input assignment on the touque website. Mr. Arkin also kindly asked us if we could finish 4 and 5 (if we can) since we are behind. The other classes have already done this. I was really confused when I started my homework. I didn't know how to work it out but later I had some help especially from my class notes and I was able to do it. Yay!
Well, good luck everyone! Hope to see you at school understanding everything crystal clear! I know I am (well about the homework that is)!

Our asterisk border

Sorry, for the late posting. I know it is very late but I have been very busy lately. On, Friday I had a dance program right after school and it takes usually an hour to get ready so I had to rush home and be at the stadium at 6:00. It was very hard to make the time. You may ask what type of dance? Well, I don't know if you have heard of it but it is a traditional dance called Bharathanatyam. I have been learning since i was 6 years old. I have come far since then. On Saturday, I was studying the whole day for a dance exam which I did terrible on because I got very nervous. Basically, my whole weekend was busy with dance work. Yet, I still remembered what happened in class on Friday. It all rings many bells!

On Friday, we were supposed to have Studio 218 but nobody brought in any music. I guess everyone has been very busy lately with the week and nobody even looked at our wiki page for Studio 218. Our class was basically a copy and help period. We copied down some more definitions which include parameter and arguement, making our glossary even bigger. We were explained more about our homework and it was made very clear in my opinion. I had no idea there was so much behind Turing! For the rest of the class, we just helped other students catch up on their homework from Thursday night which was creating the asterisk border. I was one of those people who received help. I had created my border in 52 lines! That is a lot! So, with some help and ideas from the other students and I was able to get it down to (I believe) 10 lines which is a big improvement!

Luckily, we were not given a lot of homework which gave me a break this weekend. For homework, we had to review operators, documentation template and programming guideines. So, in my opinion we didn't do much on Friday. Okay, guys, I have to go, it is getting late! I am excited for tomorrow! Hope it will be a great work period!

Turing, Turing and more Turing!

Sorry my blog entry is very late today. I had a dance program that I went to. I came straight home after school, got ready, left the house, danced and came back home at 9:30. I am very tired! Luckily, I do not have that much homework tonight. Thank god! I just started working on all of my homework after eating my dinner and mini-donuts. They were good!

So today in computer science class, we did some more work on Turing. When we got to class, we were given a lesson on things that had to do with our homework after Mr.Arkin gave us some definitions to copy from the overhead. All of the information he gave us, was actually very helpful. Later, Mr.Arkin showed us a trick that occurs if you do not write your program fragments with the correct numbers and showed us how focus is very important when working with Turing. We were given a case where we asked the program to display 4 asterisks in each corner but, when we would run the program, there would only be two who were one above the other. We found a solution that we did not ay attention to when we did the activity which caused us to get a different result. You need to remember the things we learned before, to complete this. Later, after we finished this activity, Mr.Arkin gave us the assignment of making a border on our run window using asterisks. Mr. Arkin was able to do this in 10 program fragments while it took me 52 program fragments to get the border. We were given a chance to work on this in class!

For homework, we were asked to get dividers for our class, finish the border assignment, and review and take notes on “Variables” and “Input” on the touque.ca website. Luckily again, I finished the border assignment in class, so I am done with that! Now, for homework all I have to do is get the dividers (probably have to buy them) and take notes on the concepts he asked for. 

Wish me good luck and the same back to you! I am excited to learn about input tomorrow!

Forgot!

To be honest, I kind of forgot what happened in class a little while ago and now I remember. I guess it's because we did not do much. Yay! Today in class, we wrote down a lot of definitions that had to do with last night's homework. I discovered some new peices of information and I was actually right but wrong on some parts of my theories from last night's homework. I now appreciate and understand the program better! Mr. Arkin asked us to copy the definitions on the overhead and then explained each of the definitions while we took notes. Since the definitions were related to our homework from last night, it was more as if he was explaining the homework which is how I learned a few new things. He later assigned us our homework and gave us the rest of the class to work on it which I found helpful.

For homework, Mr.Arkin assigned us a new assignment. He also asked us to copy the definition of sequence from the touque.ca website and we were asked to read the subdirectory "subprogramming". I finished both of these things during class though. But, I actually have extra homework because I did not know that we had to save our homework on Turing last night so now I have to do it again and save it this time. A lot of the kids in our class did not do this. I am also going to be taking some notes on some of the stuff on the touque.ca website under programming since I did not do that before.

So, wish me luck blog readers that I finish in time! I am trying to start all my homework and then watch T.V instead of the opposite since I always end up staying up late each night doing my homework. I am learning a lot from the I.B program already! Well, I hope everyone has luck! I am going to start now! Log in tomorrow for a chance to read more! We may even be starting input tomorrow by the looks of it!

A day back after a three weekend holiday!

Wow, what a long weekend! I know what I did this weekend wasn't much (I admit). I had planned so much and got none of it done. I had planned to get a lot of my school work done so I wouldn't have to do it later but I got distracted with other things. One of the things that distracted me was the T.V which happened to have so many cool shows coming on because it was long weekend. But, it's not like I can do anything now. Let's not speak of the past! I hope that you all had a good time though and did something useful over the long weekend.

Now for what happened today in class is that we took a lot of notes! There was alot of board work and work that we did on Turing. In class today, we just learned more about Turing. I found it to be very intriguing how the program can respond like that. It was sooooo cool! I like the new program that we will be using for this new unit that we just started on Thursady. It seems very interesting. I am hoping that it will get even more interesting as we move further in the unit. I have a feeling that I will be learning alot from Turing and that someday it may come in use to me, which is a good thing. The basic outline of the class lesson would be learning how to tell Turing to do a specific task and how the program works in general.

As for homework, Mr. Arkin has assigned us an assignment but I find that it is not really an assiggnment. It is more of a practice. It is supposed to help us understand how Turing works and how to use it. So, guys I am going to start it now. So, don't worry I will be blogging again tomorrow, so come and take a look here tomorrow! Looking forward to a new lesson tomorrow!

Party!!!

It was a party in 2-1-8! It was a great reward. Thank you Mr.Arkin for the fantastic reward. I know that all of us appreciate it, I know I did. I guess there isn't going to be much blogging for today due to the arty but, I can explain what happened. I really enjoyed the party, especially the food which was delicious....Ummmm!!!!! We helped serve the food to the students. There was a variety of tasty food and there was even some healthy foods. There was like 5 different types of chips, gummy worms (Halloween), organic chips with salsa, pineapple, cantalope, cookies and timbits. Sadly, there were no drinks, to help us wash all of these nutrients down. But, I still appreciae that our class brought in a lot of food. Thank you to all who brought in food. The rest of the class period, we just partied! You may ask what I mean by partied. Well, we had free time to go anywhere on the computer. Mahak and I went on Facebook and she showed me a whole bunch of cool things posted (I don't have Facebook). It was a very fun period that boosted our energy for the rest of the day since the class was in the morning. I am looking forward to more fun with our new unit starting on Tuesday! The party was worth all of our hard work in unit 1! Happy Thanksgiving everyone even though  I don't celebrate Thanksgiving!!!!!!

So i throw my hands up, they're playing my song. The butterflies fly away. Nodding my head like yeah, moving my hips like yeah. ..Its a party in room 2-1-8!!! Yayayayaya it's a party in 218!!!

(It was Mahak's idea to add more to my title)
We got a party! Whoooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have finally all gotten a reward for all of our hardwork! We have gotten so far and i really appreciate the fact that Mr. Arkin is letting us have a party to celebrate. What he sadi is true... it has only been a month but we have already accomplished so much. We have our own websites. How many people do? I am really excited especially since we get to have alot of fun in the first period of the day, we get to listen to music and we can eat food. I am really looking forward to it. I have asked my mom to pick something up on her way home tonight for the party tomorrow so I don't know yet what i will be bringing so i won't be able to post it up on the wikispaces page. I will definitely try and bring somethign even if it is candy. I have not yet read the pages on programming for homework... i am doing that after this ( i have a lot of homework tonight!). It lookes interesting though. I have downloaded Turing though.
Now onto what actually happened in class. Not much actually. We started our first lesson in our new unit called Programming. The lesson was on flowcharts which was actually very interesting. We learned about two different types of flow charts and took some notes. Near the end of the period, we were introduced to a progrsm called Turing which we will be using during the unit. I learned alot and the program looks very interesting and it looks like it could really make our lives easier. Who knew? The one thing i was surprised at was that it went by soooooo fast! I hope that we will have alot of fun tomorrow with the party before teh weekend and that it will be a great reward ( not to jinx it!). So everybody try and bring some stuff in. Don't be selfish and eat other peoples food without sharing! You learnin kindergarten, " It's important to share!"

Oh my god

What a class! We learned so much in such little time. I swear Mr. Arkin has a talent in teaching fast.
Mahak says "Hey people, it's me, your girl Mahak here! Stop reading Arthi's fail blog and check out my awesome blog. :)"
I dont't agree guys. My blog is awesome. The only reason she can talk (well blog) is because I am doing my blog here at school. She is being very annoying actually and now she is going to start singing a terrible song (You and I tonight by Faber Drive). Eeeeeeiiiiyyyyyeee!!!! What ever will I do? So as I was saying, we learned so much this class. Alot of things are going by my wishes. Like this morning when I made it into The Sears Festival which is a drama competition and now like I wanted, we learned more about binary codes. we actually learned what each binary code represents. It was really cool though. We also got the chance to write down most of them on a sheet to help us do our homework which is to decode Mr. Arkin's blog. You should go visit it! The bell is going to ring soon so got to go! I will write back tonight!

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Back home! Sorry I was watching Karate Kid so I was kind of distracted and couldn't start my work earlier. By the way for those of you who havn't seen it ye, it is great! So as I was saying before, today's class was really cool. I really liked it since we learned something new. At first, if you were to learn this like we did today, you would have got lost. But, we were able to catch on fine. Most of us were able to. The key to being able to do this is patience and conecentration. Without these, you would take a whole day to figure this all out. Well, good luck everyone who is reading this and hope you have fun. Oh, and nice work on your glossaries for those that I checked out! I can see there was alot of effort put into it!
Good job!

Done!!!

More board work today. Wow! We are done (well I am)! I am done all of my homework at this point for Computer Science except I havn't found any of my pictures, and I have to find a few of them again since they are too big or too small. I am excited to find out what will be happening next class! I hope it's not another glossary because that would be a lot of glossaries. I have not had that much homework today which gives me a chance to work on my Computer Science homework which I believe is my only peice of homework. I really enjoyed the class lesson today. I learned a few new definition but the part that caught my attention the most was how Mr. Arkin had taught us about ASCII's codes and how they work. I found that it was alot like math and the lesson was like a math lesson. It was really cool! I wonder if we will get the chance to learn soem more tomorrow. Hmmmm...Some of the questions I have about the future are:

1. What has Mr. Arkin planned for our class to do with the images we found?
2. What is our next assignment?

Board work!!! :-)

Today was an interesting class. Most people would say that it was really boring since we didnt do much except for copy defintions of the board and overhead, but I thought that it wasn't that bad. It was actually really cool to learn some of these new definitions. I never knew that this whole time I thought the wrong definitions meant the wrong thing. I am so embarassed sometimes! I can see that we are getting closer to our glossary deadline where it will soon be time to have our glossary marked. It is a late start tomorrow so I have a feeling I will get some more done than I usually would have. I am one of those people who will have to wake up early anyway to take the bus but I will still have some spare time in between for some work. For tonight, I just need to work on updated my glossary, organizing it better, adding images and posting it up live on the web. I hope I can even get more than that done. But, it is kind of late and I havn't worked on any of my homework yet since I came home late and then came to the library where I am now writing my blog. My, goal for tomorrow is to be able to wrap up the glossary like Mr. Arkin said and then get it done. So, far I am not having any problems (knock, knock, knock), so I am hoping that it will stay that way. I still have to search up the definitions of the words that Mr. Arkin asked us to do. Have fun everyone and see you at school tomorrow. This is a long blog entry!

There isn't much to say since we didnt do much in class. We didnt have Studio 218 today which was sad since I was really looking forward to it since Mahak was going to play her music. I was excited to see what music she had picked out! But, oh well, I get to wait for next week. We mostly did board work and came up wit more definitions to add to our glossary. It's getting bigger!!! In class when I tried to upload my glossary, it said that the host was unavailable and that there was some sort of error. Mr. Arkin told me to go home and check over the weekend and it ended it up working when I tried it today. There was some sort of security block on it when I did enter. It said something like the host being unknown and unfamiliar and if I still wanted to continue. When I clicked yes, it worked. Maybe that is why it wasn't working. Hmmm.... I did end up finded pictures for my glossary definitions, but not all of them. I will still work on it though, to find some more. I am excited about this glossary since it seems more advanced and different. Let's see how it goes tomorrow!