Paradigms

Today we started off with some more Small Basic and how to make a text window say "Billy Bob smells" this was then extended to getting it to say whatever name that you type in would smell. I found this useful because it is helping improve my programming skills even if it is on Small Basic which is considered to be a basic but well understood programming tool.

We then moved on to looking at paradigms which are event driven, procedural and object orientated. Event driven is when you make the user interact by typing or clicking the mouse. Procedural is when you make the code into a sort of list and pretty much do it step by step. Object orientated coding is when you for example have a book but you then list it's key features such as the author or the number of pages it has.

I most enjoyed the starter activity because I found it to be entertaining and it helped me improve my Small Basic skills. I least enjoyed going through each of the Power Points because I found them to be incredibly boring and tedious and I felt it could of done with some animations or something to make it less boring.

I feel that I need more help with some of the coding aspect of small basic since I still do not how to code the computer to read the time and make it so it asks you if you have had breakfast or lunch depending on what time it is.

Overall I felt that I progressed more today because I am starting to understand a bit more about this unit and hopefully on Thursday I can pretty much understand all of it. I am also looking forward to making the turtle draw some letters of the alphabet on Thursday.