Personal Blog

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Blogging was fun. Although it was hard to think up something to say that lasts up to 50 words every day. That was the most challenging part. Learning how to blog was handy because I never made a blog in my life nor have I ever really engaged in a blog either. So this experience was totally new to me. Even I had no idea how to make this link to my personal blog. Oh well. Better to learn it then not ever know it I guess.

Access

The access for me wasn't all that bad, as apparently it was a 'rip your hair out' kind of thing. I actually wanted to know how to create databases with forms and queries. I can't say it was fun, but i can say it was educational and will probably pop up later in my life when I'm working. Above is a report I did from the booklet we had to follow. I liked the beginning and middle of the booklet, it was fine, but the end of the booklet got a bit weird. I didn't like the assignments that we had to complete using Access (of course) and also Microsoft Word. It got extremely confusing when one of the assignments asked to write a letter and a cover page for the Access information. I don't know if I did it right but when I did it i felt that it wasn't even relevent to what we were learning in Access.

Choose Ur Own Adventure Game

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This project was the most fun of all. I 've never made a game before and it was so exciting to create one. I learned how to program buttons in a different way ( instead of having the button link to another key frame). Drawing and designing the rooms and items that the players would pick up was fun. I figured out how to make a box and a drawer open, and have items disappear once clicked on. And it was awesome how I could have a sentence above the stage saying what the player has to do if they didn't have an item or once they entered a room. It took awhile to plan out the game and actually think about the 'game over' areas. Some areas of the game was 'mind boggling' but the answers were pretty obvious. Like how to make an item disappear once clicked on or program 'game over' if they didn't have the item.
Luckily I finished the game just in time, but I wish we had just a day longer to work on this project so I could for sure completely finish it. I say this because in the last minutes of class, I just threw in the last two frames ( the game over with the dog and the congrats ending) together and hoped the buttons that should lead to them were properly programmed. But it wasn't all that of a big deal.

Ipod Interactive Banner

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My ipod tour was fantastic!!! Using buttons and more buttons to link each keyframe to eachother was fun. I really like my idea of the colour ipods. It was a lot of work, linking every colour word on each colour page to its appropriate location took long and sometimes it got a bit confusing. It was also hard to put the minimal number of words into my interactive banner and make it look nice. But hopefully I accomlished it. And what a relief that all the buttons work and go to their appropriate location.
I gained a lot of experience with the buttons and learned how to zoom into the button once touched and what not. It was a fun assignment.

PACMAN!!!

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I loved creating the pacman banner. Having him roll across the stage and eating the morphed yellow ball thingys' was fun. I gained more experience with using the motion tween and shape tween, but still it seemed that I couldn't get want I wanted pacman to do most of the time. But that goes with more experience. Also that was the first time I learned how to link my pacman banner to the pacman website by learning how to create a button. The button code to link it to the website got a bit confusing, but no worries I learned it.

Flash Book

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The Flash Book was awesome. It showed me a lot of ways to make a character or a word move. I was baffled with the jiggly text, I never created something that jiggly on a computer in my life. Drawing and creating the alien face, and the rubber man showed me how to use the shapes and colours on flash, and the shape shifting shapes using the shape tween was amazing! Creating a rectangle shape and having it morph and shift into a squiggly line was awesome! The flash book sure helped me create other projects that we were asked to complete. With out it, I'd be totally lost.

Virtual Stock Exchange Assignment

This is the Virtual Stock Exchange. It was confusing at first, all the numbers and percents that I had no idea what they ment were over whelming and I'd just buy stocks that I was familiar with. But over time, I understood the numbers; when to buy cheap stocks and sell them for a good price. Looking for stocks was also hard because I didn't really know a lot of companies that base their stocks on technologies like the computer. As I said before, I just chose ones that were popular and that I've heard of.
I gained money and I lost money from time to time. As you can see on the homepage above I had a total return of 22.13%. That is a lot of money to gain. Hopefully it stays like that. Other times it would fall down to -20% or something around there and I hated that, it took my pride away.
The group was a total different story. Our group was called Tarcoalian company and man I found it frustrating to work with them, as well as present a powerpoint with them. It was hard to get them working. The only thing that was fun was creating the logo. I'd prefer not to present a crappy powerpoint that we threw together in such the small amount of time we left to do it. I'd rather put together a good powerpoint and not present it, ( although then I guess why make a powerpoint if we aren't going to present? Whatever) that would've been better.
I learned a lot about stock exchanges like how to buy wisely, what stock exchange actually is and how to make good decisions on stocks. Learning how to make graphs off of Excel was interesting and handy to know too. It was somewhat fun and easy all in all.