Reading Week.

Reading week... a fun time also stressful i guess. Basically everytime reading week comes along I say to myself "you are going to study"... and then nothing happens. The WIP is due on the friday following the reading week which means i gotta do something for the site. Every other calss pretty much has a midterm for me when i come back so when next week rolls around... it is not going to be pretty.

More Flash...

I planned on making my weekly Thursday posts, but I really didn't get a chance to write anything at all. Basically what I was going to mention was that I had finished the flash form that we had to do this week. It wasn't so bad because we had done most of the stuff in the two previous labs so it was basically just combining all of that. Still it took me a while, especially since I wanted to make it look pretty... Somehow I think pink equates with pretty but whatever.
Anyways today we were doing our video conferencing lab. It was pretty straighforward copy and paste step by step procedure. My only problem was the clear button which wasn't working. Turned out I was setting the function to clear the clear button and not the chat... Wow that was dumb. Luckily Cindy was smart enough to point out my mistake.
Ok, so it's now officially reading/study week. I have to work on the site to make sure that I'm done about 70% hopefully it's not a last minute struggle.

Flash

Well I had a steady stream of Thursday night posts but I decided to break the cycle because of a wonderful program called Flash. Last week we were reacquainted with Flash by making video controls. Just two video controls to be exact, play and stop. Now that doesn't sound so difficult, but then why did it take so long to figure out. Thanks to Bertha I figured out that my code was stupidly placed outside of the on release function... After that the lab was a breeze.

Ok so today we had another flash lab this time... Forms. Everything was going smoothly until I tested the movie and was getting errors... After trying to figure it out on my own I called Bertha over and she pointed out that data collected by radio buttons was supposed to be collected by the group name. But then when I was doing the reset button I had to refer to them individually... In conclusion it was long... And confusing... And the way I was putting up my hand every five minutes reminded me of third grade. I haven't even looked at the assignment/hand in part yet.

AP (after proposal)

Ok so the proposal is out of the way, now it's time for the real meat... The actual project and getting all of that in order. Apparently the work in progress is coming up fast so I better get cracking. The great thing about this class is that there is no midterm.. But then again we have labs to hand in and the upcoming WIP so it pretty much cancels that out.

As for all the other classes, mid terms are fast approaching and due dates for assignments are coming up so I'm keeping pretty busy. 410's midterm is like a final since there is none, so I want to do well on that because I'm not going to get a chance to make up for it if I do poorly.

Other than that I'm working on the site and thinking of things to put on it to make it interesting. Oh yeah I got an old edition of Don't Make Me Think just because I wanted to take a look at it. I didn't realize it was by Steve Krug... What are the odds... At least the book looks prettier than his website :P

Project Proposal

Well it's that time of year again... The time where I'm hoping I'm not pulling an all nighter writing a project proposal. Well in actuality its not that bad since I was sitting in the library most of yesterday writing up the proposal. So I'm almost done, I just need to add a few things. Yeah I even have enough time to write this blog without worrying. Anyways my idea was based on something I have been obsessed with since I was a kid. When you watch people like Harriet the Spy and Nancy Drew... And even everyone's favoruite gang from Ghostwriter it's kind of hard not to follow suit... So I'll be teaching the masses how to solve crime and make the world a better place.