Monday 10-5-09
I stayed home sick today but took some time to read over basic Java script.
Tuesday 10-6-09
To avoid further confusion with the "C Programming Language" book I spend today supplementing my knowledge with a C beginner tutorial on http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html This has been helping me a great deal as it fills in gaps left by the C book which assumes a proficiency in many things i have no experience in.
Wednesday 10-7-09
With what I've learned on http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html I spend most of the period going back to the C book and determining which questions had been answered and which have still yet to be explained. I went back and forth between the two tutorials and so far it seems a much better method of learning than using one of the two on their own. The online tutorial give more detail on simple subjects while the hard copy counterpart give a more general challenge.
Thursday 10-8-09
I spent the majority of the period on the online tutorial. particularly helpful has been the explanation of strings it offers and a far more comprehensible section on arrays. however the Event functions were somewhat unhelpful so i reached out to third and fourth sources to help me. after reading the explanations offered by others i feel far more confident on the topic.
Friday 10-9-09
With my decision to create an artifical life program for my science fair project finally definite i consulted Mr Elkner. He said, and i agree, that it would be best to make this program in Python. My only concern so far has been which visual program to use. Most likely I will use Jython when writing the program so i can write the majority in Python with only the visual aspect being handled in Java script.
I stayed home sick today but took some time to read over basic Java script.
Tuesday 10-6-09
To avoid further confusion with the "C Programming Language" book I spend today supplementing my knowledge with a C beginner tutorial on http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html This has been helping me a great deal as it fills in gaps left by the C book which assumes a proficiency in many things i have no experience in.
Wednesday 10-7-09
With what I've learned on http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html I spend most of the period going back to the C book and determining which questions had been answered and which have still yet to be explained. I went back and forth between the two tutorials and so far it seems a much better method of learning than using one of the two on their own. The online tutorial give more detail on simple subjects while the hard copy counterpart give a more general challenge.
Thursday 10-8-09
I spent the majority of the period on the online tutorial. particularly helpful has been the explanation of strings it offers and a far more comprehensible section on arrays. however the Event functions were somewhat unhelpful so i reached out to third and fourth sources to help me. after reading the explanations offered by others i feel far more confident on the topic.
Friday 10-9-09
With my decision to create an artifical life program for my science fair project finally definite i consulted Mr Elkner. He said, and i agree, that it would be best to make this program in Python. My only concern so far has been which visual program to use. Most likely I will use Jython when writing the program so i can write the majority in Python with only the visual aspect being handled in Java script.
Careful, Mr. Crowe, JavaScript and Java are completely different languages with very little in common. Jython is Python written in Java, *not* JavaScript.
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