Day 16

Day 15 - York University

Today I woke up at 6:30 in order to get ready and meet my group at school. By 7:30, I made it to the school and we headed to the university. We arrived literally exactly at 9:15, better than expected. :)

The first presentation was about computer science in general, this was exceptionally boring as there were too many slides, the information was too detailed, and the speaker was extremely boring. I was glad when it was over.

The second presentation was about the robotics team and how they build the rovers for the yearly competition with other universities, this was much better than the last lecture and I actually paid attention this time.

The third presentation was short but it was hands on, basically we sat in a computer lab with gaming PC's and we began to remotely hack each others computer. This was extremely fun, and was the highlight of the field trip in my opinion.

Lunch was great as-well, although the prices at the university were much too high. The so called "refreshments" were a complete lunch by themselves.

The final lecture was about computers and surgery, this started off pretty boring, but got pretty gore and exciting. During this lecture I was trying to plan how wed get back to the school via TTC.

After this lecture we were dismissed and surprisingly we got back to the school fairly easily, though our group was very immature on the bus/subway, and many people got frustrated with us. :)

Overall the field trip was very good, better than I had imagined it would be, I hope we can have another field trip sometime this year in this class.

Day 14 - Confusion

Today, we were assigned to complete the purse class, which I wasn't able to do, due to the lack of syntax knowledge. Mr. Arkin went over it and it kind of made sense, although it feels like its going to  be really hard to learn the java syntax.

After school I spent hours researching the best TTC routes, and found a gimmicky way to get to York University in an hour rather than 1.5 hours. The group is relying on me, I hope we don't get lost. :P

Day 13 - Java # 2

Today, Mr. Arkin gave the 4U students a note, which lasted pretty much the whole period. I was completely baffled by what he was saying and tried not to get myself confused. We were assigned to try and make sense of the calculator class, but it made completely no sense to me.

I also handed in my permission form for the field trip on Friday.

Day 12 - Java

Today we began learning about Java using the IDE, Dr. Java. It didn't really make much sense, but Mr. Arkin said it was magic, so i had to believe him.

We also received the permission forms for the field trip to York University which i signed and placed in my bag to ensure that I will not forget it.

Day 11 - Rush

Today was the final day to work on the superpower autobiography assignment, and I had gotten much of the content I needed done by the end of the period. I continued to iron out the HTML and CSS bugs at home and clean up the grammar mistakes. When it came time to peer mark, my partner wasn't done with this superpower assignment and therefore couldn't peer mark my page. I requested a partner on the wikispaces discussion, with no luck, eventually my partner finished his page and we peer marked each other.

That was a close one, but hopefully i will receive a good mark on his assignment.

Day 10 - A bit behind

Today, we were assigned to begin practice peer marking our pages, and it wasn't until now that i realized that I was a bit behind on schedule, Ive been working solely on the "looks" of my page and very little on the actual content. I am nearly finished with the CSS, and will work as hard as I can tomorrow to get the  actual content finished with.

Mr. Arkin also confirmed the field trip to York University. We have to be there by 9:15, and its about an hour and a half away and I'm not very good at TTC routes. Game over.