Sharing of cool stuff from my subscriptions: #1

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-09/world%E2%80%99s-largest-offshore-wind-farm-opens-today-britain


After 2 years of construction and 780 million pounds, Britain has finally finished a giant off-shore wind farm, the largest in the world. It will power 200,000 homes and raise Britain's wind energy production by 30 percent. It will eventually have 341 giant fans out in the ocean. Which is pretty cool, and hopefully will be mimicked by other countries.

Reflection on the week

So this week in my intrepid exploration of computer science, we went over loops and lists. They look scary to some but are really simple if you break them into their separate parts. Then, we had our big six weeks test over loops and lists. I am proud to say I got a 97! I missed one whole problem, which was due to a careless mistake on my part. Hopefully in the coming week we can do something a lot more challenging, and get to java quickly.

First thoughts

This week in Computer Science I completed the List lab in the Scratch section. This lab was relatively easy, and successfully taught me how to store inputted information with lists. Then I moved on to the Alice tutorials. Alice seems to be much closer to java, combining the object-oriented style of java without having to actually write code like in the much simpler scratch program. I successfully completed the first and second labs, teaching me how to crate environments in alice and then assigning commands to the object I placed. After finishing that, I made what I consider my crowning achievement: I made a samurai character do the moonwalk.