Time to reflect

It’s been a good 2 and a half months. It does not feel like that long. All 10 weeks went by so quickly. I loved so much receiving comments from people all over the world and hearing what they had to say about what I wrote. To think that this challenge brings people from across the globe together, is really cool. I got 4 commenters on my blog, and each comment was so kind and lovely. The posts that these commenters were commenting on, were so diverse and I have to say they all were extremely interesting, but my favourite was the freebie week. Not because I didnt write anything but because I got to express my creativity through a writing prompt for CBC. This is the link to the post if you want to delve any deeper! The posts were not the only things on my blog, I also had a few widgets and tools to help people who were visiting to figure out where each post was located.

My favourite item on my blog was the calendar icon. The calendar showed people when I had most recently posted a blog, and it was cool to see that I almost always posted the edublog post the day before it was due!

 

When this challenge started I was kind of against it. I have been using this blog that I have right now, for over a year, and so I thought that this challenge was going to be like the projects that I had had to do for school. I thought “oh great more work,” but then I realized that I can talk to anyone, and people that are kind and have feedback for me can access my work.

I also felt that I could truly express myself through these posts. In the future I believe we will probably be doing this challenge again next year but in the mean time we will be writing blogs way to much!

Adlih

Edublogs week 8 challenge

The challenge I chose to face this week was to try some coding. I am super interested in coding and what it initials so I thought I would share my process with you! 

Coding is the process of designing and building a computer program. Coding is pretty much a secret language that would take forever to figure out! Last week I was on a school trip in Seattle, Washington. One of the stops we took along the way was at the Living Computers: Museums + Labs, building. Here my class and I learned all about the history of computers and programming while also playing around with some programming ourselves. I spent most of my free time at the museum playing a game called Zork.

Zork was written between 1977 and 1979, and it is a game of mystery and crazy scenarios. Zork was written with MDL programming on a DEC PDP-10 computer, which looks like this. (I know, insane that this is a computer!)

In this game the computer was only able to process the answer, and so if you got it wrong it would only answer you with, “I do not know the word____.”

To play Zork you had to get in using code. There were certain password and letters to let the computer know which game you wanted to play. Playing Zork changed the way I see games and apps now because of the fact that it shows you the complexity behind each click.