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Entries from March 2008

The Amazing Flying Elephant

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

This assignment will truley challenge your problem solving abilities. Your objective is to come up with a solution to arrange for transportation of an adult elephant from the serengeti in Tanzania to Toronto Ontario. Your task is to think of every possible logits issue that could come up and determine the best course of action [...]

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Tags: Design Tech

Help With second Assignment

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

After completing the Second programming assignment on my own. I realized that there are many ways to solve this problem. One would be to add items to a database as they are being read in (we’ll get to that later in the course). Another would be to write it into a file then load the [...]

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Tags: Computer Science

A CLASSROOM FULL OF JOY(sticks)!

March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today we will be looking at how Joysticks work.  First we will investigate how a joystick works from the point of few of the actual joystick, for this I have found a few articles online you can read. Mainly from the how stuff works site. Then we will look at how a computer interprets a [...]

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Tags: Design Tech

Today in design

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

In your smaller groups now, you will need to start planning your components.
what this will involve:
-2 paragraph description (how it is going to work, what it will do, what its made of)
-Sketch or design (artist rendition)
-Parts of materials you think you will need.
As a larger group
-Overall drawing / rendition, of the set up of the [...]

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Tags: Design Tech

Mar 19 Design

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Goals for today:
1) We will get into two groups of 13.
2) Determine Which project your group would like to design.
3) Determine What components will be included.
-Features
-Input
-Output
-Structure
-Software
4) Determine Who will be responsible for each section.
5)In your smaller group now (2 or 3) Start Brainstorming your ideas for your component.
side note (tomorrow) I will be discussing joy [...]

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Tags: Design Tech

Mar 18 Yearbook agenda

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Some things we need to talk about today:
1) Rest of people who need to sign up for taking pictures of people.
2) Concert tomorrow - People to take pictures
3)Dead line for photography
4)Ad sales notes - Letter to businesses available
here is the link - to-valued-community-member.doc
I also have print outs available, remember to find 3 or 4 businesses to [...]

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Tags: Yearbook Class

Simulator Design Description

March 18th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Project ideas:
Driving Sim
Flight Sim
Biking Sim
Boxing Sim
Boating Sim and fishing
Snowboarding
Space ship Sim
off road sim (driving)
Tubing Sim
Wake Boarding
Snow mobile/waterski - looking into software
Golf Sim
Hang Gliding- looking into software

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Tags: Design Tech

Today in Yearbook

March 17th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Ok, So today there are a couple projects on the go.
1) Number one Priority for everyone should be your first double page spread, if I don’t have that I am not able to put any marks in for it and it will be a huge draw back when progress with progress reports coming out soon.
2) [...]

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Tags: Yearbook Class

Simlulator Design Project

March 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So our next design challenge will be to create a real live video game simulator.
 Some of the ideas I’ve heard so far are;
Flight Simulators
Driving Simulators
Mountain bike/Dirt Bike Simulators
Add your own in the comments sections so that other people can see what your up to.
Remember to consider what your device will take as input and [...]

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Tags: Design Tech

First Mini Assignment

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Ok here it is.
For your first programming task you will be asked to create a simple calculator in PHP. Your page will ask for an input of two numbers then when the multiply button is pressed your program will compute the resultant. To help demonstrate your abilities in this assignment you are also asked to [...]

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Tags: Computer Science

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