Friday, July 16th, 2010

My first thing to do today was to complete my latest programming challenge. the challenge was to find out if was in a certain list of names. I got that done fairly quickly, then moved onto the next challenge. It was the classes challenge. Michal had written half of the code, then I finished it off. It was challenging, but I learned how to write with classes. After lunch, Michal had me try turtle, which is a drawing application in python. I caught on quickly, and looked at Mr. Leighton (a programming teacher)'s website, where it had some turtle challenges. I quickly completed the first challenge of making shapes, then condensed the code, and made it more flexible. Then I learned what Fractals are, found a python code for a triangle fractal called Koch's snowflake. I played with it, understanding the code more, then changed the code, which used to have only one side of the snowflake, to where it contained the whole snowflake.