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!