Back to old times!

Just living is not enough.  One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. 
~Hans Christian Anderson

Mr.Arkin came back today! I actually missed our class lessons with Mr.Arkin.We had an early dismissal today so we were let out at 12:00. Which means that our periods were much shorter. Each period was I believe 35 minutes long. It seems pretty long but trust me when you are sitting in class, it seems like you just walked into the class.

Due to the short period of time for a lesson, Mr.Arkin started right away. We got into class and the first thing I heard was "Are you copying this down?" So, I got settled quickly and started copying down the notes on the projector. The note was on counted loops. Mr.Arkin used it in all of his substring assignments and wanted to explain to us how it works. It actually made our lives much easier! I understood how much of a help Mr.Arkin is. I could have had a much easier time with my assignments. As Mr.Arkin said "That's why they pay me the big bucks!" It was actually very interesting as to how the instructions to the computer can be so literal. We learned a few interesting new keywords and what they do.

Mr.Arkin later mentioned how we must be very careful with our spelling and grammar mistakes when we post things on the wikispaces discussion forum, on our websites and in our blog entries. Mr.Arkin especially mentioned my case where I wrote "teh" instead of "the" twice in one wikispaces entry. Sorry again! Until the end of the class, Mr.Arkin went through our substrings assignments, explaining each of them one by one showing model answers and why they are correct. He showed us new ways that we could do it and the counted loop would have came in handy if we had known it. We go up to substrings # 9 before the bell rang.

For homework Mr.Arkin asked us to modify assignment #9 so that it does the same thing for the constants instead of the vowels. It did look like it would take some thought but I was able to figure it after a while. I just need to put it into a program. Wish me luck!