Friday, February 23, 2007

TIK Weekly Status Report#3, Friday Feb 23

Work completed/Skills learned
I have learned a lot of interesting things this week. On Monday we had a test on everything we have learned so far, it was not so difficult especially the multiple choice part. On Tuesday we learned some basic stuff about VB and did some brain problems. On Wednesday we finally started working on VISUAL BASIC!!!!. I did my first assignment, tax calculator( which was easy because we had step by step instructions). On Friday we continued working on Visual Basic assignments. I learned how to create variables, how to define them, and how to use them to obtain an answer.

Objectives/Future Goals/Work Remaining

My objective for next week is to learn how to use Visual Basic better. I want to learn more about the software and all the different functions it has and to learn how to write my own program using VB language( codes). I am looking forward to getting my first Test and Weekly Status Report marks back. I already downloaded Visual Basic on my home computer so i can get some extra practice outside of class. The first assignment i did outside the class was a web browser.

Challenges faced/How they were resolved

This week I have ran into the number of problems, but with help of my fellow classmates and TIK teacher I could resolved them easily. Some of the problems were: On Wednesday i could figure out how to include tax rate in my calculator. I made a lot of different codes but, none of them worked. So after I asked TIK teacher and with her explanation i finished the calculator. The other problem which I am doing right now is on Assignment#2. After writing all my codes, for some reason the software did not want to do what I wanted it to do, here is what it said: Conversion from string "" to type 'Single' is not valid.I will try asking some of my classmates who already finished the assignment and maybe they can help me on Monday.I also found the flowcharts on the test very difficult and hard to solve.