Monday 4 November 2013

Task 27 and up

27) Squares and square roots. You should be able to do the task sheet in this site mostly without a calculator. Check your answers and put a screen shot of the site into your blog.





28) How does Pythagoras theorem work. Give a diagram with an example of how you work it out.




Monday 16 September 2013

100 words on my family, favorite animal, ideal job

100 Words on my Family

I live at home with my mother and younger brother named Adam. Adam is three years younger than me. I prefer not to talk to them or have anything to do with my family because we do not get along. My mum and brother get along well. My father left when I was six and so I don’t see him that often and I prefer not to.

My mum works at a pharmacy while my dad works for Silver Fern Farms as a marketing manager.
My brother Adam goes to John McGlashan College and in year 10. He wants to study Physical Education and do Outdoor Educator or be a Fire Fighter as a future job.



100 Words on my Favourite Animal

We have had quite a few pets over the years mainly being cats. Cats would have to be my favourite animal. We have had 3; Pooch who was 19, Munchkin who is 7 and Shrimp who is 4.

Apart from cats I like rats and platypuses’ we have had a few Australian Tree Frogs as well which our neighbor got for us as a gift.
I like cats because they are stupid and they don’t take much to look after them, unlike other pets such as dogs.



100 Words on my Ideal Job

My ideal job would be working in game design or software development behind a computer desk all day. I cannot stand dealing with customers or anything to do with social interaction at a working environment. I would also be interested in graphic design for gaming.
I enjoy gaming a lot and getting a job in the industry would be great and would have to be number one ideal jobs.
As for hours or location I am not bothered about all that, however I would probably move to Aussie in the next few years.

Monday 2 September 2013

100 word thing

My name is Ben, however most people call be Hurbs. I am currently 18 years old I completed CIT level 3 last semester. Level 3 was good I enjoyed the coding a lot more on Visual Studio than Python which we are currently using in Level 4. In Python we havn't done anywhere near what we can do in Visual Studio so I find it hard. I also liked Visual Studio more because it was more user friendly and it was set out a lot cleaner.

In highschool I attended John McGlashan from 2007-2012 of which I hated school for me was irritating due to not being able to do the classes that I wanted, in early 2012 I gave up on most of my classes to work in the schools IT room, I continued to study English, Math and IT and for the other free periods I spent working with the IT techs.

After this year I plan to move to Wellington and live with my girlfriend and either find work or continue this course through till the degree at Weltec.

Sunday 1 September 2013

Task 18 - 26

Task 18
If I had a random number in cell A2, how could I get it into standard form using Excel functions.

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Task 19
Write a paragraph in your blog explaining how the Sieve of Eratosthanes works. Construct a table that shows the Sieve and write down the first 20 prime numbers. If possible use colour and fonts to show the number patterns.

The sieve of Eratosthenes is one of the most efficient ways to find all of the smaller primes, you start by making a grid of numbers. First start at multiples of two and cross them out, then move on to multiples of three and so on...
Eventually you will have left over numbers that you havn't crossed out, those left overs are prime numbers, an image GIF is provided below to further explain.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes_animation.gif


Task 20
Areas. Circles. Have a go at these problems on areas of circles.Take a screen shot of the page and put into your blog.


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Task 21
Find a web page that deals with Pi. Take a screen shot of one that interests you.


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If image error click link provided:
http://www.joyofpi.com


Task 22
What does Excel say that Pi is?
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Task 23
Construct a cell in Excel that gives a random radius between 0 and 10. Beside it calculate the area of a circle with that radius.
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Task 24
Write a blog post that illustrates the area of a rectangle. You'll need a diagram, formula and explanation.

Here we have a rectangle that is two units high and 4 units across.
The math to work out the area of a rectangle is:
Base x Height
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Task 25
Repeat 24 for the area of a triangle.

A triangle is basically half of a rectangle.
The formula we use to calculate the area a triangle is:
½ x base x height
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Task 26

Repeat 24 for the area of a circle.

Radius = 1/2 diameter 

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Sunday 28 July 2013

HTML Tasks 2-11

NOTE: I had the wrong task page.

2. What does HTML stand for. Paste in a few lines of HTML.

<html>
<head>
What Does HTML Mean?
</head>
<body>
HTML Stands for "Hypertext Markup Language"
</body>
</html<


3. Define Tag, Element and Attribute. Give examples if you can.

??????


4. What does this do: <p> Hello world! </p>

<p> Text here </p> Would make it so “Text here” became its own paragraph


5. Copy this in to Notepad and run it through a browser.

< html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
< /html>

Where does the text "My First Page" appear?

Pasting the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
< /html>

Into a notepad and saving as .html then running will make “My First Page” display on the tab of the browser



6. Same as 5 but this time, change the text to your name. Put your full HTML program into your blog.

Can't Figure out how to add a file will just post a picture of "myfullname.html"
Link: http://iforce.co.nz/i/iqegulsc.y1e.png


6a. Go to this page and run the example called "A very simple HTML document" from the HTML basic section. Run their example, think about the tags then alter their script in some interesting way. eg. include your name in the script somewhere. Run your new script and copy the HTML into your blog with a suitable comment.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

<p>My first paragraph.</p>
<p>-Made by Ben Robinson</p>

</body>

</html>

6b. Same as 6a, but this time run the HTML headings script.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>This text is huge</h1>
<h2>This text is large</h2>
<h3>This text is big</h3>
<h4>This text is normal</h4>
<h5>This text is small</h5>
<h6>This text is tiny</h6>

</body>
</html>


6c. Same as 6a, but this time run the HTML paragraphs script.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p>I would put a bunch of text here</p>
<p>and it would leave a nice paragraphed gape</p>
<p>in between the next line</p>

</body>

</html>


6d. How do we write comments in HTML?

<!-- COMMENT HERE -->


6e. Why do we write comments?

So you can easily and quickly keep track of what each section of code does.


6f. Run the script called "Insert comments into HTML source code" from the same page as in 6g. Then write your own script with two original comments. Make sure it works. Put the whole script into your blog.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<!--This comment will not be displayed-->
<!--below this comment there will be some information for the user to see-->
<p>This is a regular paragraph</p>

</body>

</html>


7. Run the script on the post called First Full Script. Make sure it works OK. Then change it in some way and put your changed program into your blog with a note about what you changed.

<html>
<head>
<title>Ben Robinson (Hurbar)</title>
</head>
<body>
This is where all main text will go if I wanted to display it to the user.
</body>
</html>



8. Write the names of four different browsers. Which one do you prefer and why?

1. Internet Explorer
2. FireFox
3. Google Crome
4. Safari

Personally I prefer Google Crome as its very fast and reliable


9. What are some of the options if you want to write HTML code? Can you just write the test and the tags get added automatically?

Don't fully understand what its asking me to do,
But the coder/maker must add the tags when and where they are needed.


10. Name some HTML editors. Which one do you prefer and why?

1. Word Pad (not microsoft word)
2. Notepad

I prefer Notepad just because its basic and fast, when you are writing you dont need to many features.

11. Even with some great HTML tools, some people still prefer to use Notepad to write HTML pages. This is a very "bare-bones" text editor. Find two other simple text editors and write the simple My First Page HTML script in number 5 above for each one. Take a screen shot and put into your blog with a note about your which two editors you chose.

Notepad http://iforce.co.nz/i/ltn2njr3.ivb.png
Wordpad http://iforce.co.nz/i/vy053rlx.ygf.png

12. You should be able to use Notepad and one other text editor in Windows. The two to look at in the Apple OS are TextEdit and Text Wrangler. Write a simple HTML script in both of these that says the name of the editor you are using. You should read this page first because TextEdit tries to interpret your HTML. Take screen shots of what you've done with some comments about what you liked or didn't like about the text editors.



Monday 22 July 2013

Web Browsers

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Crome is one of the most used web broswers today, people mainly use it because its fast and reliable compared to its compitition. Crome is also a lot easier to add and remove "add-ons" it gives a much bigger viewing interface unlike IE or Firefox.
 
IE is well known for being slow and old but most of the people who use it use it because its the default with a Windows PC and it comes with it.

Who am I

My name is Ben Robinson I am 17 years old and live in Dunedin. I passed level 3 CIT earlier in the year and carried on through to do the level 4. We had to do blogging in our last corse and it was the most boring assignment we got. I liked the coding side of things last time


This is a picture of a cat.