Final Blog Post

This year in comp sci has been enjoyable. To begin, Greenfoot for the final is, in my opinion, a fine idea. Taking into consideration that a lot of people have scrapped their original projects, I think having a fairly fun and not extremely difficult final like this is a good idea. It would have been better if our projects culminated into our final grade, but as I said, most people scrapped theirs.  Doing a Greenfoot final is however a lot better than a written AP, considering how much I hate writing code on paper. This class has been a pretty good class. I actually did learn some XNA and am even considering doing something with it. It’s a pretty nice language and the things that Stefan and I made in such little time were really amazing. As far as Android development goes, I feel as though it was kind of worthless. I didn’t really learn much Android code and I feel it would’ve been nicer to focus on actually learning a new language since the beginning. Had the class been almost entirely XNA I would have enjoyed it a lot more. At the end of the first semester we became kind of misguided and realized how large of an undertaking an entire Android application was, with no Android to even test our app on. A lot of the code was way out of our league and the official LASA app that would’ve come out would’ve looked very unprofessional. Overall, it would’ve been nicer to actually learn an entire language kind of like we did in AP Comp Sci. It would’ve been nice to have an actual curriculum instead of just scrambling to finish the app without a real end in sight. We could’ve also created one app as a class and assigned different parts of the app to different people. However, the class was fun and a great learning experience. It was Comp Sci 2’s first year, and that has to be taken into account. I enjoyed comp sci 2 and will remember it as a great, fun class.

last week

Last week was one great week. I really enjoyed it. We completed all the tutorials for visual studio and pretty much brought the year to a close. Our final is going to be greenfoot so from here on out I'm going to be reviewing my greenfoot skills. Hopefully we can work in groups because I would really like to not fail the final exam. Full speed ahead! Greenfoot is actually kind of cool though, it's a great way to use java and a bit easier than normal programming. A lot of the games you can make are cool.

last week

Last week was another weird week. I missed Teusday and was thus only there for Thursday. On Thursday we started trying to do a project on our own without the tutorials. We were editing the code we have for the controller and sound to do various weird things. It got a bit difficult, but overall XNA isn't that bad. We'll probably keep messing around with XNA for a bit and then set forth on a mini-project later on. Full speed ahead!

the taks week

Last week consisted of one day and one day only: TAKS day. Mr. Stephens was absent and we had a sub, but the class was surprisingly tame. Stefan and Lambros were absent and I wasn't sure where Stefan had saved all of our tutorials since I was absent the time before so I just decided to look up stuff on the internet about C# and did some basic tutorials. Overall an ok week considering the time we had.

They See Me Bloggin'

They hatin'. We started doing basic C# tutorials. It's suprisingly less like java than I expected, but also much easier than I had expected. The autocomplete in Visual Studio is also really helpful. Overall, Stefan and I are moving at a really brisk pace. I was absent on Thursday due to being ill, however I believe that Stefan worked through the tutorials even further than I did. Once we're done with these tutorials we should start on a good project. Full speed ahead!

last week

Last week was a fine week. I'm nearly finished making tabs work in the web browser that I'm making in XNA. It's turning out very well, but is a very long and arduous process. I got the basics of the web browser off of a website, however it was lacking a progress bar and a forward and back button. I added those two right after I got it working, however the tabs are proving to be quite difficult. I'm approaching it very similarly to opening a new window, however it's hard to truncate the url bar off of the "new window". I think I should get pretty smooth functionality by the 6 weeks. Stefan asked if he could help me out with it so maybe we'll team up from here and make it even nicer.

bloggin'

Last week everything was finally set up. We got C# installed and everything was working. I decided to begin experimenting with Kodu. It's fun to play with and seems like an interesting program, but it's really simple and overall boring. It's obviously designed for a younger audience and I feel as though I could get a lot more productive things done in regular C#. I think from here on I'm going to work in C# and learn the basics. I kind of have wanted since the beginning of the year to make a webbrowser-like program or just something related to that, and I feel that now that I have some individual work time I can start doing something like that in C#. It'll probably be very complex, but I'll just wait and see how everything turns out.

blog for last week

Last week was a little bit under okay. We switched out the computers on one day which pretty much ate up the entire class period. The day after that we installed xna on the systems. Overall, this severely limited our work output for the week. Atleast we have fast new computers with cool screens though. I think from here on out Stefan will be doing exclusively XNA work, Lambros will be exclusively coding the LASA app, and I will be doing a little bit of both. It looks like this'll work well because it was very much overkill having three people work on the LASA app full time.

last week

Last week was a sort of "meh" week. Lambros was missing on the last day so we didn't exactly have a lot of direction and we also had TAKS on Tuesday so really all I'm writing about is that day Lambros wasn't there. I worked on the directory page pictures in photoshop a little. I think Stefan is going to do XNA from now on. Other than that we're still on track. Nothing new to report. Everything is good!

Last Week

Last week was fine. We are starting to really shoot through the directory page. I believe Stefan is starting to do XNA and then tying up loose ends on the main project but Lambros is currently working on a code to search the directory page for names of teachers in it (so that somebody doesn't need to scroll through and can just type their teacher's name and it goes straight to it). I got a bunch of the background tiling done for the directory page assets and overall the whole thing is looking really nice and professional. The only problem that I'm seeing with the app is the calendar page at this point. It looks sort of awkward in comparison to the other pages. Everything is themed in a sort of iPhone layout style but the calendar page just looks like a google calendar. It should turn out alright but for the moment it's a little annoying.

Last Week

Last week wasn't half bad. It was a mediocre week. Nothing special. Nothing terrible. We got work done as usual but the sports page is just killing us. We might peel Stefan off to do an alternative app or maybe start working on the directory page because we're starting to find ourselves with jobs for 2 people and not 3. However, once we start on the directory page all should go well since we're going to need someone making the pictures and objects, someone doing the main programming, and someone setting everything up and organizing/getting information. We already luckily got the teacher pictures after hours of going from yearbook administrator to the other until finally Malcolm gave us the disc so we're in good shape. Looks like we're in the home stretch.

Last week wsas great

So last week went great. We went and finally got a hold of Malcom. He gave us the yearbook pictures, and now everything is running smoothly. Lambros just about finished the Sports Page and I'm currently working on some visuals for it. Altogether it looks really nice. I've made the majority of buttons and they're all very very very very very very pretty. Altogether, we're doing great. We're starting on the faculty page and we've got quite a bit of work ahead of us. I've actually found a very nice code that let's you click on a number inside the application and then it will call that number. We don't really have any RSS to pull from so unfortunately the app will not be an auto-updated application. If teachers get fired they'll still be there.

BLOG

One of the most productive weeks yet. For the latter half of the week we were scrambling a lot to get the directory photos in but luckily we finally did. After a lot of this and that we ended up actually having to bring a yearbook editor in to download the directory information onto our computers. Luckily everything came together and Lambros is putting together the final touches on the programming for the sports page and I need to slightly reformat the buttons in photoshop. After that I have to reset the sizing in our code. Once all that's finally done we can get started on the directory page (probably the end of this coming week or the beginning of next week). After that it's testing and finalizing. We're in the homestretch!

This week was the bomb. Everything went amazing. We have the sports page all set up and now we are making it really pretty. If we get this done that means that we are in the homestretch. After this all we would need to do is the directory page and then that's that for the app. Overall it's all good. Go team. One thing thy we are scared of though is force close errors. We are already getting some for the sports page and that's bad.

blog week

We are on the track to success. We were close to just destroying all of our code and starting over. We had lost an extreme amount of information with the BIOS failure. We were extremely tired. But we-- we together, we succeeded. Lambros thinks he solved the problem, but it wis pretty much 100% just me. Lambros thinks just because the code is on his computer that he's better than the rest of us. I bet Lambros wouldn't even be able to explain how it was fixed because he's that stupid. I just have to say that my success is really a right of passage and at this point the main workers in our group are me and lambros tied. Other than that everthing is going great. This actually, even though the other groups were extremely unproductive and sould receive failing rades, was a very productive week. We were very very very very very sad at the beginning that nothing was working and we even resorted to playing QWOP but after our success on wednesday our sports page is functioning extremely well and everything is great.

BLOG FOR WEEK

This week was the best. Not. We are literally 100% stuck. Lambros decided to mess up our entire project by changing one little class name. Now we get an error every time that we open the app that says "the app has crashed" or something like that. We tried changing the class name back and we copied and pasted our code over into a new app and nothing works. We asked Dan Liu how he got over the error and he said "start over". We're really scared but we're going to keep on trying.