Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Dear Class:

There is a good source of tutorials at http://www.vbtutor.net/ that I want to look at.

We worked on the first lesson of the tutorial at the website

Lesson 1 had us just do a simple button. In lesson 2, we will do a simple calculator. The next lessons are old friends. Lesson 3 talks about properties, including color schemes and naming of the window. Lesson 4 talks about object oriented program "OOP" and Lesson 5 speaks of writing the code. Lesson 6 refreshes our minds about managing data (integers, etc. that we have seen before) and then Lesson 7 is about Mathematical Operations in which you will all do the "BMI" calculator. I hope to get this far today...

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, December 10, 2010

Dear Class:

Still working on putting on the program for game making. However, we do need to move on and I wish to start to look at Visual Basic.

There is a good source of tutorials at http://www.vbtutor.net/ that I want to look at.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Dear Class:

We got done with the final part of Unit 4.

Sincerely,

Finish the two story problems above at the "comma" in "Sincerely". We will work on those.

Open "Menu" program...add the following:

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

It has been requested that we look into a game maker program called "Unity". I would like to download that on the computers today and have you look at it. I will have to sign in as "Teacher" at each of your stations. We can find it at http://games.softpedia.com/get/Tools/Unity-Indie.shtml

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, December 6, 2010

Dear Class:

We got done with the final part of Unit 4.

Sincerely,

Finish the two story problems above at the "comma" in "Sincerely". We will work on those.

It has been requested that we look into a game maker program called "Unity". I would like to download that on the computers today and have you look at it. I will have to sign in as "Teacher" at each of your stations. We can find it at http://games.softpedia.com/get/Tools/Unity-Indie.shtml

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Dear Class:

We will continue with the final part of Unit 4.

We did not really get to this last time. We worked on the "Airplane" instead. I want it finished and printed out.

There are couple of short projects I will have you do. Then, we will do the "Airplane" that is written for you. 1 2 3 https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B52XXyfOPY81ZWRhOGNiODYtZmMzMi00NWUwLWI5NmEtMmUzMGE1NTM4NjYw&hl=en&authkey=CLWhnKUC 5

We will finish with the Airplane (We may not get to this, I do not know)

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Dear Class:

We will continue with the final part of Unit 4.

There are couple of short projects I will have you do. Then, we will do the "Airplane" that is written for you. 1 2 3 https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B52XXyfOPY81ZWRhOGNiODYtZmMzMi00NWUwLWI5NmEtMmUzMGE1NTM4NjYw&hl=en&authkey=CLWhnKUC 5

We will finish with the Airplane (We may not get to this, I do not know)

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Dear Class:

I want you to do two programs; the one on page 81-82 that is setf (1) (2) and I/O on page 83

After that, you can do Illustrator, Photoshop, GameMaker, Visual Basic, Bridgebuilder, or C++ tutorials on your own.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, November 22, 2010

Dear Class:

We are into chapter 4. I want to still look at it together.

Today I want to see if we can get the Strings done. I do, still, want to look at the rest of the tutorial below online since it might help. We will continue on with page 75 in the book dealing with input and outputs and new line and other special characters.

I want to watch a couple of tutorials on this site:
http://www.softwaretrainingtutorials.com/c-plus-plus.php

http://www.fafiles.com/index.php?course=cppPage

This site is a tutorial on 3d programming using C++ and OpenGL.
http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/index.php

The next part of chapter 4 is the third part.


Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Dear Class:

We are into chapter 4. I want to look at it together.

Chapter 4 (b).

Today I want to see if we can get the Strings done. I do, still, want to look at the rest of the tutorial below online since it might help. We will continue on with page 75 in the book dealing with input and outputs and new line and other special characters.

I want to watch a couple of tutorials on this site:
http://www.softwaretrainingtutorials.com/c-plus-plus.php

http://www.fafiles.com/index.php?course=cppPage

This site is a tutorial on 3d programming using C++ and OpenGL.
http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/index.php

The next part of chapter 4 is the third part.


Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Dear Class:

We are into chapter 4. I want to look at it together.

Chapter 4 (b).

Today I want to see if we can get the

I want to watch a couple of tutorials on this site:
http://www.softwaretrainingtutorials.com/c-plus-plus.php

http://www.fafiles.com/index.php?course=cppPage

This site is a tutorial on 3d programming using C++ and OpenGL.
http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/index.php



Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, November 12, 2010

Dear Class:

We are into chapter 4. I want to look at it together. Sorry for the delay.

Chapter 4
Chapter 4 (b)

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Dear Class:

Pages 54 and 55 talk of mixed data types and how it affects calculations. There is a reference to "promotion" and "typecasting". Read these two pages on your own and do Code list 3-8 on page 55 together. Please run and print and hand in. At times there will be a "truncated" issue with floating-point number. Read on your own page 56 and 57. Page 57 has the same code list, more or less, as page 55 (that you just did). Just look at that code and see what was changed and what it would do.

I want you to do the Menu that is linked. The links are Page 1 and Page 2

I want to talk about Overflow and Underflow.

Run it but do not print out the menu. We will look at it next time to run and print it together.

I would like you, on your own, to do the project 3-4 on page 64. We already did the Activity 3-1 on page 66.


Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, November 5, 2010

Dear Class:

I am, unfortunately, unable to be present due to a family illness. Please give the substitute your undivided attention. Share the books as usual and help each other out.

We completed the "order of operations" as denoted on page 53. We ran and printed the Code list 3-7 on same page.

Pages 54 and 55 talk of mixed data types and how it affects calculations. There is a reference to "promotion" and "typecasting". Read these two pages on your own and do Code list 3-8 on page 55 together. Please run and print and hand in. At times there will be a "truncated" issue with floating-point number. Read on your own page 56 and 57. Page 57 has the same code list, more or less, as page 55 (that you just did). Just look at that code and see what was changed and what it would do.

I want you to do the Menu that is linked. The links are Page 1 and Page 2

Run it but do not print out the menu. We will look at it next time to run and print it together.

Some of you will be completely done with the above 3-8 and the menu. If so, you could work quietly on Game Maker 8.0 as demonstrated by Evan.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Dear Class:

Last class we ended on page 52 where we were looking at "increments" and "decrement" in conjunction with a "counter" that added 1. This was written with a "j++". On page 52, we left off finding out that "++j" works the same. Note that if the equation is k = j++, then the k takes the value of j before it adds one, or "10" and then "11".

Open up the file that was the counter file from the end of the class last time (it had the j++ formula). Add the step-by-step 3.8 to it and see what the program does. We will look at it together.

The next short section is about "order of operations" as denoted on page 53 and we will look at. Do Code list 3-7 on same page. Run and print.

Pages 54 and 55 talk of mixed data types and how it affects calculations. There is a reference to "promotion" and "typecasting". Do Code list 3-8 on page 55 together. At times there will be a "truncated" issue with floating-point number. Page 57 has the same code list, more or less, as page 55.

Finally, I want to go a head, temporarily by having you open up your "Bus" program and then do a "reverse" analysis of page 66 "Activity 3-1".

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

We will

Monday, November 1, 2010

Dear Class:

We left off, I believe, on page 47, with code list 3-4 which had to do with the dividend, divisor, quotient, and remainder. Remember, by using the modulus operator, any fractional part of the remainder will be provided whereas with the integer that fractional part may be lost.

I do want to look at the basic parts of the C++ program so that you are clear as to what each part does so that if you had a quiz, you would do well.

Page 48 does the same program but instead of 4 variables and nine program statements, it does two variables and seven statements. We will briefly look at that. We will answer checkpoint section together on page 49. We continue to 50 with the counting by one and the order of operations. Write the program on page 51 code list 3-6.

That should bring us up to the end. If not, we will continue on lesson 3.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dear Class:

We will continue with Chapter 3. These are more of a review of math with a few new twists to the standard operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There will be the modulus which will include the leftover. We will just continue in Chapter 3 from there. Page 44 we will look at the code list 3-2 but we will not do it. We will look closely, however, at page 45, because of the "statements" and "results". Together, do code list 3-3 on page 46. We will continue from there.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, October 25, 2010

Dear Class:

We move into Math Operations for Chapter 3. These are more of a review of math with a few new twists to the standard operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There will be the modulus which will include the leftover. I want to look particularly a page 45 and the using of arithmetic operators. I want to do the "Bus Trip" program. It is more advanced but I think it important that you see what a simple operator can do. We will just continue in Chapter 3 from there.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Dear Class:

Please enter, compile, and run Project 2-2 on page 40. We will do this one together. This Project combines the constant and variable declarations and initialization.

As a quiz, I want you to do Activity 2-1 on your own. This will count as the exit quiz for Chapter 2.

We move into Math Operations for Chapter 3. These are more of a review of math with a few new twists to the standard operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There will be the modulus which will include the leftover. I want to look particularly a page 45 and the using of arithmetic operators. I want to do the "Bus Trip" program. It is more advanced but I think it important that you see what a simple operator can do. We will just continue in Chapter 3 from there.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, October 18, 2010

Dear Class:

Good day to you! We will begin with looking and naming variables. To initialize a variable you simply assign it a value. You must declare a variable before you can use it. On page 29-30, there are examples of keywords and improper C++ variable identifiers. Check out the character and equivalent decimal value located on page 30.

Do 2-1 in book on page 27 and then do the step by step 2-2. Do step 2-3 on page 29 and check if there is a difference? We need to look at Floating Point Variables, Boolean Variables (I talked of last time), and Constants. Do code list 2-3 on Page 34. Do code list 2-4 on page 36.

Finally, please enter, compile, and run Project 2-2 on page 40. This will probably bring us to the end of the class.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Dear Class:

We will work on the Gas per Mileage program. This program should, if you complete it, tell you what your gas mileage is and how much it is per mile for gas. We will look at some of the vocabulary and make sure you reinforce it because we will have a test on it later!

When you finish the above assignment, please change the background and font of the finished run set and then take a snapshot of the screen. Copy and paste into a word document and print it out. Make sure it includes your name, class, and period.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

October 11, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be looking in the book to Chapter 2. We will be starting the class by doing the "I can count" program. It is simple but you need to practice these programs to get them to work properly. Make sure you understand the five parts of the basic structure of a C++ program: 1) Compiler directive #include, 2) Main Function, 3) Braces to mark the beginning and end 4) Statement followed by a ; last statement is return 0; and 5) can also have comments which are ignored by the compiler but necessary to the programmer.

I want to do the "Finding Binary Numbers for Letters" program.

We will be talking about the five basic data types: int, Float, Double, char, and void. Assignment statements. These will be important in the developing an algorithm and coding the problem. This will take us into the first half of Chapter 2. We will look at this together!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Dear Class:

We go to the book room at the beginning of class and pick up books. We are more or less done with the first chapter in the book and did "Hello World".

Continuing with Binary numbers. You will be finishing the table with the powers of 2 from 0 to 7. With that, we will determine a series of numbers and their equivalent values are according to binary.

I will then give you a a list of binary codes that you will be translating the following "My name is ....". When you finish this, please put it below the above table, put your name on the top, print it out, and then hand it in.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, October 4, 2010

Dear Class:

Today, we will take a few more note on your C++ notes document. We will finish the "Hello World!" and make sure that we figure out any "bugs" it has.

I hope to go to the book room today and get the text entitled Introduction to Computer Science Using C++ 3rd edition.

We will look at binary numbers (machine language) as well but toward the last part of class.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Dear Class:

Today we will finish up the DataBase handout we started last class. It is due today. Please print out the final sheets, staple them together, and hand them in. I will project up on the screen what I want and how I want it for your parameters. Remember, recheck your data to make sure you are accurate in what you entered.

Otherwise, after the first half of the class, we will be opening up C++ and working on that. There will be a little bit of vocabulary involved but not too much. If you work on it at home, you can download at bloodshed.net. Hopefully, we will do the first bit of a program called "Hello World".

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Dear Class:

Today we will finish up the DataBase handout we started last class. It is due today. Please print out the final sheets, staple them together, and hand them in. I will project up on the screen what I want and how I want it for your parameters. Remember, recheck your data to make sure you are accurate in what you entered.

Otherwise, after the first half of the class, we will be opening up C++ and working on that. There will be a little bit of vocabulary involved but not too much. If you work on it at home, you can download at bloodshed.net. Hopefully, we will do the first bit of a program called "Hello World".

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, September 24, 2010

Dear Class:

Today we have that quiz on the vocabulary words today!

This is exciting news! The four questions are worth 2 points each.

Other than that, I will be handing out a DataBase Project for you to do. Please follow the instructions; you will be entering in a lot of data so have fun the Friday.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, February 11, 2011

Dear Class:


Edit your Report
Use handout
Change font, color, alignment, border, fill
Paintbrush

Publish it to WORD and EXCEL
What can you do with it???

I want your data exported into Excel. I want to do more with it. The following is a new category for Excel that I want put in:

Expenses per day:
Trent 2.43
Hayden 3.40
Loren 2.10
Helena 1.25
Michael 1.75
Kevin Guan 2.24
Ngai 3.10
Kevin McGill 2.00
Ana 1.55
Paul 2.02
Naragan 3.10
Trung 2.25
Nahu 1.11
Brent 2.00
Ryan 3.22
Gabriel 2.22
Felix 1.25
Richard 2.25
Raymond 2.10
Kevin Tomlin 1.11
Josue 2.00
Jason 2.24

Please put in the costs. Total will be "=cell*174" (a year of school will be 174 days). Make sure you copy the formula down by putting your pointer on the "fill handle" (the small black square on the bottom right corner of the cell) and dragging the formula down.
Sort the First names from A-Z
Create a graph. The Graph will reflect the first names and the total spent for year at David Douglas. This will be done by selecting the first name column and then holding down the control key and then selecting the "Total Yearly Expenses". Select two other columns of your choosing. Choose the bar graph for this. Save but do not print. I will look at them next time I am in class.

Print a copy—from WORD?? EXCEL?? OR ACCESS???
Must have enhancements
Correct Spelling—watch caps
Centered on Page
Name on bottom left/period on bottom right
We will do in class.


Open DATABASE NOTES
wildcards—* ?
comparison operators—like < > +
compound criteria—using two sets of criteria

Go back to your original database.

QUICK SORT
Filtering—a temporary sort
Filter by selection
Highlight something and click on filter by selection icon
Can only select one criteria
Run filter
Remove filter
Filter by form
Click on Filter by form and enter a criteria
Can select more than one criteria
Run filter
Remove filter
This will be the icon that looks like a "funnel" which I told you about.

Permanent Sort
Creating a Query—extracting specific information
How do you do a query? Go to youtube for a tutorial (Watch as a class)

Using design view
Add a table and select fields
Options:
Sort
Show
Criteria
Or—more than one criteria
When using check boxes yes/no
Criteria:
“smith” matching Smith
“Smith” or Larson” matching both
Not “Smith” everything but Smith
S* everything that begins with S
*s everything that ends with s [a –d]* begins with a through d, ends with anything
between 10 and 15 shows 10 through 15
“Johns?n” shows Johnson and Johnsen

Make sure you understand the query part that adds, limits, and shows data.

We will finish this. I have a handout that we will finish that will end our Database and a quiz on the vocabulary of Database on Tuesday.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, September 20, 2010

Dear Class:

Create a Report—create a report using wizard—choose the class table
Pick four fields
Pick a grouping—group by age
Pick a sort—sort by last name
Pick a layout
Pick a style
Give it a name

Edit the report in design view
Header—contains field name
Detail—actual information
Use paint brush
Numbers right align/words left align
Select and size or edit—click to select, use hand to move
Shift Click header and detail to move both
Make sure everything fits and is centered
Same alignment icons as in WORD
Change footer
Delete the entire text box on right—page x of x
Change =now() (function for date and time) to =”your name—period x” (string)

Open Database Notes and update vocabulary if needed


ASSIGNMENT:

Create a report using what you just learned—choose at least 5 fields
SAVE, PRINT and turn in

Group by age?? By Eye color?

Edit your Report
Use handout
Change font, color, alignment, border, fill
Paintbrush

Publish it to WORD and EXCEL
What can you do with it???

Print a copy—from WORD?? EXCEL?? OR ACCESS???
Must have enhancements
Correct Spelling—watch caps
Centered on Page
Name on bottom left/period on bottom right


Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Dear Class:

Open notes and make sure we have all these terms: Database, record, field, datatype. ADD objects, table, form, report, querie.

Open Class database in datasheet view—what can we do with it??
Basic—can’t change the header/footer, you can delete it in setup, only have one font, one size for rows
Sizing columns—double clicking between field names or sliding
Sorting—Highlight entire field and use AZ↓ or ZA↓

Highlight a field and use binocular icon to look in, match, search
Navigation bar at bottom to move between records
A "pencil" is displayed on the left when editing a record
A "triangle" is displayed on the left when selecting a record
Add or delete a record
Add a new field in design view—School
Type in David Douglas High School one time and use Control ‘ to repeat in every cell

Work on some OJBECTS:

Create a FORM using wizard
Choose all the fields
Choose a layout—columnar is good for now
Choose a style
Give it a name—click finish
Does everything fit
View/Design View to edit
Edit Field Box and Detail Box
Change font and size
Rearrange to make sure it fits
Shift click to highlight more than one box
Use the paint brush for editing
View Form View to check it out
Print Preview—use the icons to view one, two, multiple pages
Use navigation to get to new record and add the teacher

Was it easier to input data in a form or table object???


Create a Report—create a report using wizard—choose the class table
Pick four fields
Pick a grouping—group by age
Pick a sort—sort by last name
Pick a layout
Pick a style
Give it a name

Edit the report in design view
Header—contains field name
Detail—actual information
Use paint brush
Numbers right align/words left align
Select and size or edit—click to select, use hand to move
Shift Click header and detail to move both
Make sure everything fits and is centered
Same alignment icons as in WORD
Change footer
Delete the entire text box on right—page x of x
Change =now() (function for date and time) to =”your name—period x” (string)

Open Database Notes and update vocabulary if needed



ASSIGNMENT:

Create a report using what you just learned—choose at least 5 fields
SAVE, PRINT and turn in

Group by age?? By Eye color?

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Dear Class:

Database

Day One:

What is a database?

Why use a database—information about customers, information about inventories, any type of information a business would need. You can design, manipulate, sort, and print.

Who has a database—schools, libraries, government, stores, banks, business on inventory and employees
Internet Search:
Who won the Heisman trophy 2 years in a row?? (1974 1975 Archie Griffen
Who Was David Douglas named after?? (David Douglas, a botanist)
Who are some notable alumni from David Douglas??

Record?

Field?
Requirements: contain a unique name, describe the field, <= 64 characters, cannot begin with a space, can’t use . , ! [ ]

Fields have data types—text, number, currency, date/time, yes/no, OLE Object (picture), hyperlink (address), lookup wizard (giving options)

Field size—usually default works but you can assign different sizes
Who has a long name that always gets cut off???

Icebreaker—creating a database about our class
What do we want to find out about each other—pick 10 fields

First Name
Last Name
Age
Favorite Food
Favorite Color
Gender
Eye Color
Birth Month
Job
Database Exp
Programming Exp
Grade
Hobbies
Siblings
Middle School
Sports


Write them on a piece of paper
Pair up to find out information about someone in the class—record it on paper

Let’s put our class in a database. . .

Create a database
Different programs: MS ACCESS, Oracle, Dbase
We use ACCESS
Determine fields and data types
Enter your own data on the first line and SAVE it.

Pass the papers around the room and have each of you enter all the informtion on your own computer.

Open WORD document and create a “Database Notes” file
Vocabulary: database, field, record, data types