TIK weekly report 9

This week in TIK, we did many things, which were finishing up our pizza order programs, start learning how to create loop programs (For...Next), and we also learned a way to trace our programs, to make us understand better the concept of loop programming.

Because it was a 4 day week this week, we didn't have any class on Monday. On Tuesday, we continued working and finishing off out pizza palace order form program which was our midterm project. We finished it and we also had time for the teacher to mark our program. Overall, I think we did pretty well, but there were some places that we made easy mistakes that could have been prevented if we checked more throughly. I didn't face any problems that day, because we were practically done our program and all we had to do was finish it off.

On Wednesday, everyone finished their programs and we started on how to create loops in Visual Basics. We learned how to create loops with the For and Next statements. It seemed pretty easy, because all we had to do was copy what was on the sheet as an exercise. I didn't finish the whole thing that day. Some difficulties I faced that day was that I didn't understand how to start the whole loop program, so I got some help from other people.

On Thursday, we had a lesson on how to trace programs in Visual Basics. Basically, we were taught how to make it so that we know exactly what process the programs we create goes through before the final statement shows up on the screen. We got a handout to work on, which was very easy, because all we had to do was copy exactly what the handout said and then copy what the answer showed up as. I didn't face any problems that day.

On Friday, we continued our work on loops with the For and Next statement, and we also continued working on tracing the programs we created. But this time, the programs were a bit more complicated and we had to explain what was happening in the program in words. Some of the difficulties I faced that day was that I didn't know that you were supposed to write down the information every time a variable changes, but I didn't know that, so my information table got really long. Also, I didn't completely understand how to explain the program in words, so I asked others for help.