My Second Week

Advanced Spreadsheets (Unit 42)
In this lesson we created a chart designed to be a shopping list, with a list of items and prices. We used the technique in excel V look up to create a box where you type in a number in the list and it tells you how much the item is, which saves you from looking down the list for an item price. We also went over the IF statement again and implimented it into some of the work.

Programming (Unit 6)
We started to use the software Visual Studio, which is a Programming piece of software which allows you execute certain things, such as make a text box and button that can be clicked and typed into. We dragged a textbox and button onto the canvas and adjusted it to thye size we wanted, then Paul showed us the code to enter into Visual Studio, which made it so when type someones name in and hit enter, their name will come up followed by a message we programmed earlier. The final message would pop up and look something like "James is really cool" or "James is amazing", etc.

Website Design (Unit 28)
In this lesson we had to research a bunch of things, such as Domain names, web servers, web hosting. We had to go online and find out what they all are and do. We also had to find out the difference between "The internet" and the "World Wide Web" (WWW). The internet is a massive network of networks, many WAN's make up the internet. The World Wide Web is a massive information sharing system, where people can send and recieve files over it.

Information Systems (Unit 3)
We were looking at different businesses and different hierarchy's of businesses to see how they are structured, also different parts of a business and what they do, such as Management, Senior Management, Finances, Sales, Human Resources, Operations, Marketing, IT, Admin, etc. They all have their own departments what help the company, for example the Finance department handle all the money that comes in and goes out, they also see if they are going over their budget or not.

Computer Systems (Unit 2)
In this lesson we focusaed on the hardware of the computer, what makes it run, what stores the memory, what the "brain" of the computer is. We had to go online and research the different words Waquas put up on the board, they were pieces of hardware in a computer, such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), HDD (Hard Drive Disk), Motherboard, RAM (Random Access Memory), a Control Unit, ALU, etc. All these things make up a computer and we had to find out what they all did. At the end i had a basic understanding of all the components inside a computer.

Games Design (Unit 40)
I handed my report in on Mincraft the computer game, with things on it including graphics, gameplay and multiplayer tabs. We were looking at the visusal styles of games online and how they are different, games such as Skyrim (>: D) which isn't out yet but we reviewed the graphics and gameplay of it. We also had a look at some other games online and had a look at the difference in the visual style.