September 30,2010

     We started the say with SFTP instructions because many people ( including myself ) had difficulties connecting to filezilla yesterday.  We had a extension on the computer glossary for our website.  We need another computer glossary and im going to upload it tonight.  We're having studio 218 tomorrow.  I think i might volunteer to become the DJ next Friday.  We'll see.

Your Student,
Ziyi Shao

September 29, 2010

    Today, i finished my glossary.  I am really happy and i feel very accomplished.  I learned my lesson with the superpower assignment to never drag on a assaignment.  I used a lot of different definition resources.  I am planing to go to lab 235 at lunchtime.  Also, although i finished everything, i can't access the FTP account...

September 28, 2010

   Today, we refined our glossary page and i learned that i had to alphabetize everything... it took a lot of work, but now it looks more organized.  I also am planning to make links to every alphabet.  Although that wouldn't really make a difference, i think it'd be cool, and plus i need to improve my marks considering i got a zero on my superpower assignment.

Your Student,
Ziyi Shao

September 27, 2010

     Today we learned about html lists that consist of <ol> (ordered), <ul> (unordered) and <dl> (definition).  We learned about it because we are going to make a glossary of definitions we accumulated throughout the classes.  Today, we brain-stormed the definitions and tried to explain them as best we can.  We also have to search up the formal definitons from web sources and we need about 5 different sources.  Mr. Arkin also introduced us to this cool program called Dropbox that can replace our USB that i forgot to bring one day which caused me great inconvenience.  For homework, we have to make a skeleton of our class glossary and we have to put it into the dropbox. 

Your student,

Ziyi Shao 

September 24,2010

   Today was an regretful and certainly erasable day.  I didn't get my peer marking sheet or my validitated version of my html through.  I finished everything...30 minutes after he closed the ftp.  I wished i was more time efficient.  I hate my life right now.  If i had 30 extra minutes, i would've finished.

September 22, 2010

     Today, we learned about the hierarchical file structure and about linking to files in various locations.  We also extended our knowledge of the peer-marking form as Mr. Arkin elaborated it.  We also continued working on the assignment and trying to finish before Friday.  I still have to continue to check for link errors and spelling/grammar mistakes.   I have run out of ideas for my superhero assignment so i think that all i have on the site is about as much as it is goingto get.  I also learned how to indent my paragraphs using em1 on the html page.


Your Student, 
Ziyi Shao

September 21, 2010

    Today was just another day of working on our index page and our superhero autobiography. I got some pictures on my autobiography and corrected the link from my index page to my autobiography.  We learned about how to make our webpages look more professional.  We learned about where to use pixels and points and the importance of linespacing.  We also have to spell check our work.  I also added a boarder to my website, it looks a lot better & less bland now.

Your Student,
Ziyi Shao

September 20, 2010

    Today, we had a brief introduction to the client-server structure and about the protocols : http and ftp.  We learned/ reminded of the differences between the development directory and the production directories.  I tried to replace my "s and 's and :s and ;s with special HTML character entities.  We also learned about the importance of increasing the line spacing of your text is hard to read instead of just using larger font.  Our projects are due in Wednesday so we're going to be extremely busy the next few days.  Also, we have to be careful for grammar and spelling errors because Mr. Arkin is picky apparently.  We also have to check out the marking scheme again for this assignment and the peer marking scheme.  I worked and stressed about the index page and the superhero assignment for many days and I hope my hard work pays off in the end.  By the way, does anyone know if emoticons are allowed in our blogs? I hope so, because i like using them.

Your student, 
Ziyi Shao 

September 17, 2010

     Today was a fun & special day.  We got to listen to music as we worked.  We learned about special character entities such as &heart; which is a heart.  Also, "s are not correct if you put it on your website you need a special entity to make it look curved and real.. We also discussed about the special use of hyphens and dashes and semi-colons to make our writing look more professional.  Also, we can't use emoticons -inserts unhappy face- Another thing special about today was that i finally checked out our teacher's (Mr. Arkin's) blog. For homework we had to search up "understanding client server architecture and continue working out our superpower autobiography.   

Your Student, 

Ziyi

September 16, 2010

     Today i got me index html validated.  I am so happy.  I learned that i have to ask more questions in class.  Also, we learned about keyboard shortcuts such as alt- D which goes to the desktop, and shift - q which is quit.  Allen also taught us how to be able to see two windows stacked side by side. We also have to continue working on the superhero assignment.  And we have to read typography -->word-processing guidelines. Thats about all today. I'm going to hurry and do my superhero autobiography now.

Your student,
Ziyi Shao

September 15, 2010

     In computer science class today, we copied a trouble shooting checklist that Mr. Arkin wrote for us on the board.  We went through nine trouble-shooting questions which were relatively easy.  We defined a rule for variations of basic elements.  For homework, we are going to keep writing our superpower autobiography, and we have to bring a printed validated index page and css to class.  I am getting excited because my website is finally looking like a website and not some thing off of wordpad ^^ 


Your student, 
Ziyi shao

September 14, 2010

     Today we learned how to make a production directory file.  Mr. Arkin also demonstrated how to use the html and css validation.  This is the only thing i understood how to do right after he taught us how.  We also worked in partners to indentify what we didn't know.  I can say that i don't understand most of the things he taught us but the partner thing helped slightly. =)  Now i am going to start writing my superhero assignment.

Your Student,
Ziyi Shao

September 13 2010

     Today was a very low day for me, my head hurt and i had cramps all day.  Needless to say, i did not perform very well in class.  Along with the other classmates i simply stared at the teacher as he tried to explain to us what a hierarchical file structure is, and demonstrated how to work Filezilla.

     He also demonstrated HTML and CSS validation which i am not really sure how to do.  I tried it and they said that it was invalid but they did not specify where the error occured. For homework, we had to post our index.html thing along with our wikispace id and a link to our blogspot.  I have no idea if i failed to do so or not, i sent it a couple of times, but it gave me no confirmation that it went there, and if it did, it was not noticible.


     Also, concerning the super hero assignment, i went into a writers block for the weekend and could not choose between two superpowers : being able to freeze time so that only you are moving, or to be able to melt things with my palms.  What do you think? which one should i choose? =)


your student, 
Ziyi Shao

September 10, 2010

     Today's class was a long day because it's a friday and computer science was the last period of the day.  All we did was explore with html & css with the limited knowledge we have (just like yesterday).  Even so, i think that this computer science stuff (html formating and css) is starting to make sense and i think i'm actually liking it, a lot. 8D  I feel crazy & not myself for saying this but i wish that we will learn some new css and or html format soon.  I'm excited to learn more about this subject because it is something different compared to all my other classes.  We get to learn cool codes. =)
 
     Also, concerning the superhero assignment, i will finish writing the written part of the essay by monday.  I still don't have a clear idea for what kind of super power i will have.


your student,
ziyi

September 9, 2010

     Today is the third day of school.  Mr. Arkin wasn't teaching today so Ms. Ecker filled in.  We were just experimenting with our html in preparation for making our website.  I struggled for most of the class because appparently i copied the css example wrong because i wrote "(" instead of  "{".  I tried so many different things before i found out.  Such a tiny mistake caused so much fustration and stress.  However now i know what i did wrong and i got it right.

     Even though i had trouble with the css and the rel link, it was still a lot easier than what i expected it would be yesterday.  It made a lot more sense after i applied it in real life thtan when it was just Mr. Arkin demonstrating.  After i corrected my mistake, i experimented a lot on different colors, i like the pink and blue, and pink and green combo the most.  I still don't know how to make my background into a picture or how to animate my words like some of the other students in my class but will try & experiment at home.

     Also, concerning yesterdays homework, after i wrote the blog, i started to understand the content because i copied it on a separate sheet of paper.  I guess it was just because i had messy handwrting. xD

your student,
ziyi shao

September 8, 2010

     Today was so confusing because Mr. Arkin tried to cram three classes into one.  We learned about basic HTML, CSS, FTP, and aquired new glossary terms.  We learned about what the html and css are made of; tags, containers, & elements are the only ones i can identify right now.  We also learned basic knowledge like html is for content and css is for css.  I think i copied my html or css example wrong or something, i need glasses...  Well, no one said that computer science was going to be easy, so i guess i kind of expected it to be hard, BUT NOT THIS HARD. ;(  I think i will reread and re-write all of my notes for today and hope that i'll understand even half of it.  If I still can't get it after he comes back, I'll be sure to ask Mr. Arkin about it.  @___@

your student,
ziyi shao

September 7, 2010

     Today, Mr. Arkin gave us a brief introduction of himself and of the class.  He answered some questions that the class had about school and computer science.  Of course, the most important thing he told us was where the washrooms were, because if we didn't know it would be complete CHAOS. =9

     For homework, we have to review the class website with my parents.  It took forever to get my parents to review it with me, but in the end they did. ^^ We also had to create accounts for two sites  which are Wikispaces.com and Blogger.com.  I also checked out and bookmarked touque.com.  I read the daily log and previewed the super-power assignment.

     I think that computer science will be a fun and unique class.  I read over the super-power assignment and I'm extremely excited to start the project.  Also, this is my first time blogging, and i think its kind of fun and i'll do it more often ( even if Mr. Arkin doesn't make us). =)

your student,
ziyi shao