Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Dear Class:

Rules
Class itself
Database
Bloodshed C++

Day One:

What is a database?

Watch the tutorial for database (17 minutes)

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??
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???

Go to the spreadsheet that is shared an editable and enter in the following data after one of the students puts in the Record type

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

First Name
Last Name
Age
Smart? (yes/no)
How much do you have?
Favorite Food
Favorite Color
Gender
Eye Color
Birth Month
Job
Database Exp
Programming Exp
Grade
Hobbies
Siblings
Middle School
Sports


Enter the information onto the spreadsheet that has been shared.

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.


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

Sites that can help: Access 2003 tutorial

Access 2003

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Dear Class:

Good luck on your final!!!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Dear class:

We are making a slight detour today. Loren has very graciously agreed to present Unity to you. We will start from scratch and try to get a program at least started.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dear Class:

Today, I want to have the first tutorial done and graded on your computers:

Tutorial
Example
Resource 1
Resource 2
Resource 3
Resource 4
Resource 5

We will start the second tutorial, the "shooter" below.

There is also "shooter" one.
Tutorial
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 7
We will see how we do!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, May 23, 2011

Dear Class:

Today, I wanted to look at transitioning to GameMaker 8.0. GameMaker 8.0 is already loaded, although you may have to go to the C drive to load it. The first tutorial consists of:

Tutorial
Example
Resource 1
Resource 2
Resource 3
Resource 4
Resource 5

There is also "shooter" one.
Tutorial
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 7
We will see how we do!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Dear Class:

Finish off Visual Studio absolutely today. The last assignment will be "Planets" using combo boxes. Thanks.

Today, I wanted to look at transitioning to GameMaker 8.0. GameMaker 8.0 is already loaded, although you may have to go to the C drive to load it. The first tutorial consists of:

Tutorial
Example
Resource 1
Resource 2
Resource 3
Resource 4
Resource 5

There is also "shooter" one.
Tutorial
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 7
We will see how we do!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dear Class:

I want to finish off Visual Studio. I want to, as a class, look generally at how to manipulate each of the "objects" put into a program about "Feelings". You will name each picture as "PicHappy", "PicOK", and "PicSad" and for the text, "TextHappy", "TextOK", and "TextSad".

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)

We finished Lesson 7 in which you did the "BMI" calculator. I recorded those last time. I do want to do the "grade" calculator in Lesson 10

Today, I wanted to look at transitioning to GameMaker 8.0. GameMaker 8.0 is already loaded, although you may have to go to the C drive to load it. The first tutorial consists of:

Tutorial
Example
Resource 1
Resource 2
Resource 3
Resource 4
Resource 5

There is also "shooter" one.
Tutorial
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 7
We will see how we do!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite