Last week we started working more in depth with strings. I have a little experience working with this because I did extra credit work online that dealt with strings. Having this knowledge is helpful. We also started lab07. Part a is quite difficult and there are some parts I don't understand. I ended up skipping ahead to parts b and c. They were very easy and took a short amount of time. We also started learning about lists. I am a little behind because I had a college visit one day day last week. It took longer than I expected and I missed the introduction to lists and a quiz on strings. I will have to take the quiz soon and catch up on lists on my own.

The week before last week was the last week before spring break. It seemed to drag on forever. In computer programming, we continued work with the finches and watched some ted talks. I was very impressed with the finch library. It has some interesting stuff. I wrote a code to make my finch check the weather and come out if it was above 70 degrees. On our last day of class before spring break we watched a bunch of videos. I love to see all the cool new technology. I especially like it when ordinary things are used to do something that I didn’t even think possible. It just goes to show the creativity of the human mind.

I worked on project02. For some reason, I really like this project. It’s my favorite so far. It just clicks in my head. Writing comments still gets on my nerves though. But I can see how they’re helpful. I can look at my code and see exactly what it’s supposed to do and if it’s working properly.This can be helpful if there's a problem and I need to go right to where it's messing. And anybody who's using my prewritten code can understand it better. Comments are just a pain to write.

We began work with the finches. I think these things are pretty cool. It feels interesting to know that I can cause something to move with words I type on my computer and then to watch it happen. Because I finished early, I started looking at the other things that you could do with the finches in the finch library. This stuff seems pretty random and unrelated to the finches but still very cool. I hope to work more with the finches.

The week before last week I completed lab05. I had a little trouble with this lab. It was hard making my brain think through the steps to accomplishing my end goal. After this I just made sure I had finished everything as it was the end of the six weeks. I also had a reading response. I find the issue of the SOPA/PIPA bills very interesting. It's amazing that the government is trying to proceed with these bills even though they don't accomplish their end goal and are receiving so much negative response. I look forward to seeing the end result. I'm also looking forward to the new six weeks.