(3) The Aircon

 The Aircon
By: toot

I like the Aircon, it's makes us cold
And the computers cold too.
But too much cold is bad
I don't like too much cold

                                                                      

Aircons are essential to people during hot days; when you need to cool off and also to the computers. But sometimes, aircons try to kill people. Like me and my friends who are at the back part of the computer laboratory (near the aircon). Every period, we experience the torture of the air around us. I feel like the lab. is turning into a snowy place. The hardest part is when there is an activity which you need to do fast. My hands are freezing and I can't type properly.

In behalf of the people who also experience these things, we would like to have a request of turning the temperature a little bit higher in the com. sci. laboratory. Thank you.

Hashtag para akong ewan.

(3) Where do astronauts hang out?

The keyboard is an important part of the computer. It inputs data . Without it, people may also be unable to use the computer.

Keyboards are important but annoying when they're broken.

There's this keyboard in the Com. Sci. lab which I'm annoyed at. It has a broken spacebar. It's annoying to use especially when you are in a hurry.

Also, one time, I was typing so fast. When I was finished, I noticed that the 3's in my formula is missing. So I had to look again and find where I am supposed to type the missing numbers.

Sometimes, the computer gets weird.

Where do astronauts hang out? at the SPACEBAR!

(3) Another beggining

So it's third quarter! School's going to end in less than 5 months. Time really goes fast.I can't wait to be on vacation for 2 months again. But before relaxing, I still have many things to do before the AY ends: periodical exams, achievement test and CLEARANCE.

So I'm quite going out of the topic. What I want to say in this post is that, since we are beginning a new quarter, of course there is a new topic which is the Microsoft Excel.

I never thought that Excel I going to be quite challenging. The formulas make it complicated. Also, there is memorization involved and I admit, I HATE MEMORIZING period. My brain just can't register new things into itself when it's not in the mood.

After a few activities, slowly, I finally understood it.

Third quarter is going to end in less than 1 month but I there are still many thing to learn in CS 1. I hope that my brain will agree with this too.

(3) Little Things (not the song)

Macro, that's in photography right? When you take a picture of something small.

Well, in computer science, there are also macros.

A macro is a shortcut for repeating actions in MS Excel. This is an essential tool because it makes work easier and faster and especially to people who want to save time just like the members of the Energy Savers Club (special mention: Cj Bercasio, the founder and president. Haha)

Making a macro is just like counting 1, 2, 3. First, enable the use of macros in your workbook (or Excel File). Then, go to the view tab and click macros. Click "Use relative sources" first before making a new macro. Then, do the magic. 

This is an awesome tool. You don't need to do something repeatedly. Less energy in making your excel file, more time to sleep and eat.

(3) No Teacher Week

Last week, some teachers weren't around, including Sir Tom. For us to do something while he was away, he left an exercise in Moodle about using Excel. It was easy for me because all I need to do was type the formula and then press enter. But the thing that made me annoyed was every time I type the wrong formula and I can't find what's wrong in it. But I'm still thankful that I was able to finish it two days early.

I featured Adventure Time characters in my submission. Jake's and Finn's grades were exactly the same because they copied each other. Princess Blubblegum's grade was perfect because of an obvious reason (if you watch Adventure Time) Beemo's (my brother) grade was the same since he is a machine.  Okay I sound retarded.

#CatchingFire <3

(3) Broom Broom

Sometimes, I mean always, the formulae is complicated but the answer is simple. Making formulas was the "most-nosebleeding" topic for the third quarter. Kulang lang ng parenthesis, mali agad. Hay.

"There is bad in good. There in good in bad" is the meaning of Yin-Yang. Excel formulas also have advantages despite its ability to make my nose bleed. When calculating the average, sum, etc. , you just need to enter the cell reference number of the data you want to calculate, enter aand you're done.

Racecar. Haha. Nice sir.

(3) Three

I like Com. Sci but I don't like the quizzes and long tests. Yes they are easy. Easy for the people who have complete notes. -.- I know Moodle is there but when there is a quiz the day after, I don't have access to Moodle so I just stay with my incomplete notes. If only I've got to go home everyday just like in elementary. (huhu)

It all changed in the first LT of the 3rd quarter. I wasn't able to study that much because of my lack of notes but (tadah) I only got 3 items wrong. Okay, maybe I'm overreacting but for me, three mistakes is good in a 20+ item test. 

Yay.

Sir, 1.25 does exist.

(3) Buttered Chicken Inasal

We had a group activity in making charts. Our groupings were according to the number assigned to each one of us.

I was grouped with Yna and GB.

Destinyyyy. Yie. (Sorry Yna. haha)

So, our task was to make a chart of the data of a certain country like the population and the birth and death rate. We chose Canada because GB chose it. So technically, GB chose it. I let GB do the typing stuff 'cause he was a fast typer. We used my Moodle account to submit. Our submission was days early because GB wanted to finish it already. It looked like sheet. I don't know if it really looked like that but based on my standards, it is.

Well, there's a verb called move-on and that's what I'm gonna do.

(3) Super complicated, extraordinary game

(Thanks Alea for helping me have an idea for this post)

Before, I defined MS Excel as s boring, mainstream, for a  formal office document program. I never knew that excel could be also be fun.

Right after we were taught about macros (Macros, yung maraming mga cross. ha.. ha..), Sir Tom had an additional activity where we need to make a game using macros and even conditional formatting. His example was a minesweeper game which used both of the tools I mentioned earlier. When it was our turn to make a game, I couldn't think of an "awesome" game because of the aircon torturing me (aircon, why u tryin to kill me?). 30 mins. left, 15 mins. left, 10 mins. left! Oh Glob. That's when I decided to make a simple game that requires less effort. I made a super complicated and challenging called, "THE MAZE" featuring the land of Ooo and Finn and Jake. Then, submit!

Then when I opened it, the macros didn't work.
I forgot to enable the use of macros.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Sir, 1.75 does not exist.

(3) This post is quite "CHART"

Alam mo yung chart? Diba yun yung maiksi? "chart"

Ok. Haha.

Charts represent data. As simple as that. We've been making charts since grade school . Before, we made charts on paper. We still needed to use a protractor, compass and other measuring instruments to make our charts accurate. Now, we already make charts in Excel.

Making charts the MS Excel is easy. First, you need to select the table containing the data you want to represent. Then click the "insert" tab and choose the appropriate kind of chart you want to use.

There are different kinds of chart in Excel:

• A pie chart shows percentage values as a slice of a pie. 
• A line chart is a two-dimensional scatterplot of ordered observations where the observations are connected following their order. 
• A column chart is a chart with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. 

Other types of charts are radar, bubble, doughnut, stock, etc. 

Just remember to put the correct data in the chart.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart

(2) Netiquette

People learn etiquettes to make then look good and respected by other people. Our parents taught us these while we were growing up. From eating to answering phones, we need etiquette.

In the world of internet, etiquette is also required for a person to fit in. Etiquette on the internet is called netiquette. Netiquette is a set or rules for behaving properly online.

In the internet, we must watch what we are posting or saying because we might not know, we are already hurting someone with the words we say. Before posting anything, think of the posible results of your post. If it has a negative effect, stop. Avoid flame wars.

Also, we must keep or anonymomity in the internet. We must avoid revealing every information about us for it might be used by other people for forgery.

After learning about netiquette, I finally know the do's and don't s in the internet. Now, I can make myself look good online. 

  

(2) Inhale, Exhale

Last week, we were asked to have a power point presentation about "How to Persuade People."

Today is going to be our presentation. I admit, I'm nervous because: 1. I haven't presented a powerpoint presentation before. Actually I have presented before but it wasn't a real presentation because I just read the things I put in the slides and I didn't follow the rules in making presentations. 2. I'm really not used to presenting. Since elementary, I seldom report in front of people. When we have a group report, I would ask a fellow groupmate to report instead of me.

Also, we're going to have a poetry recital in English later. What a day.

I hope I overcome my fear of reporting and speaking in front of many people later.

Good luck to me!

#medyoKinakabahan

#medyoGustoNangMagFriday

(2) Colors Matter

Powerpoint. I think this was one of my favorite programs as an elementary student (my most favorite was paint). I don't know why but I enjoy opening it when I'm bored.
Before I wasn't aware of the Do's and Don'ts in making Powerpoint presentations until Sir Tom discussed this topic.
                                                                

While on this topic, I remembered my elementary classmate who has a codename "colorful girl." Colorful girl loves Barbie and flowers and things related to that. When she makes a project, her usual output would be page full of colors which is sometimes, too messy.

One time, in computer class, we were asked to make a webpage using HTML then we were asked to choose our own colors for the text and the background picture. I didn't see her work but I hope it's not like this:

I hope I could tell her the things she SHOULD know.

                                                                

Because of my classmate, I have known something I should not do in making presentations and designing things.  :)

(2) Hi Sir. Please read this :)

I visited Moodle a yesterday and checked on the course, CS1. The looked through my previous quizzes and activities. I clicked Short Quiz #2 (HTML). THEN THERE WAS ONE SURPRISE:

I WAS LIKE OOOH MYY GLOOOOB! I WAS PANICKING (well actually, until now). I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO DO THEN THIS CAME UP!

SO HERE'S THE EXPLANATION:

The time was running out and I was nearly finished with this. Then when Wanda shouted "1 minute left!" I immediately uploaded my work. While uploading, the web page went to the home page of Moodle. I checked CS1 then I saw that *poof* the quizzes were gone. I prayed for my submission to be uploaded. Well, I guess that didn't work. 

So as soon as we open our computers in the Com. Lab., the first thing I'm going to do is send my submission.

(2) This is Not A Boring Blog Post

In order for us to do things correctly, we have to follow instructions. Computers also have to follow a set of instructions to do certain things correctly and these instructions are called protocols.

Of course there are different set of instructions for different actions. These are some of the types of protocols:

• IP or Internet protocol-protocol used for the internet
• TCP or Transmission Control Protocol
• FTP or File Transfer Protocol
• SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

To avoid this post from being boring, here's a joke:

“Yomomma so big, she’s got her own OSI layer between L3 and L4, because the Transport layer can’t handle her. #protolol”

— SecurityHumor

I got that from this website. I don't get it but if you get it, please tell me so I could laugh.

(2) Hot Issues!

In our world, people want to be updated to celebrity buzz and latest news around the world. In these news,ssues cannot be absent. Like Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's breakup which caused Miley's change. (ew) There are always issues everywhere: at school, at your office, in the showbiz world and also in ICT.

One of the popular issues is hacking. This is done when someone has an unauthorized access to the website. Hacking causes another type of issue, DOS or Denial of Service. This makes a network resource unavailable to its intended users.

The most frequent nowadays is cyberbullying where a person sends hurtful messages to another person. This is very dangerous because it sometimes cause psychological effects to the person being bullied or somethimes, suicide. That's one of the reasons why the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012  or the Anti-Cybercrime Law was implemented. It secures all the internet users from harmful persons in the internet. This makes the internet a safer place than it is before.

Other issues are malware, flooding, spamming, computer addiction and digital divide which is the discrepancy between people with access and people without access to ICT.

We must avoid these issues by being friendly and having proper etiquette on the web.

(2) Students' BFF

Moodle Icon

That moment of panic when you don't remember something from your teacher's Powerpoint Presentation. You wished that you could have gotten a copy of the PPT. Well, us students do not have to worry about that anymore.

We're so lucky to have Moodle in PSHS BRC. It really helps us students and also the teachers a lot. From reviewing the lessons to announcing about projects and assignments, we can do all of that in Moodle.
You can also message your classmates and even you teacher if you want to say or ask something.

Moodle has been a really useful website especially in the subject, Computer Science. We submit activities and quizzes by using this. We should be thankful for having this in our school.

(2) Quizzes

Tick tock tick tock

The clock was ticking. The room was freezing. My hands were shaking. Panic. Panic.

Copy. Paste. Save. 

So that's how the HTML quizzes went. 

1st quiz

I had a good start. I used CSS because it was easier. I just copied codes from our previous exercises. I used the mountain picture that we downloaded before. My submission was 1 minute and 1 second early. Woot woot :D

2nd Quiz

Maybe this quiz didn't happen if most or all of us were able to submit  the first quiz. Some of us celebrated because they could work in pair so they can help (or copy haha) each other. I used the same picture (again). I was annoyed by the 1 inch line at the top of the page but the time was short so I submitted it even if it has that line. Well, here's what happened: I don't know if I was able to submit it because at the time that it was being uploaded, it stopped then returned to the home page. I checked the course, CS1 and the two quizzes were gone. I hope it was still sent before the time. 

AFTER THE QUIZZES

(2) HTML? YAY!

This tower is italicized. 

When I knew that our lesson was about HTML, I felt happy :) First, because we already took it in elementary. Second, I enjoy doing it because you are free to design and add stuff to your webpage. 

I easily got he lesson because I always do that in my Tumblr account. I copy codes and paste it on the HTML of my blog. I add  bubble effects, music player (Sadly, I removed this for some reason) and title bar thingy's. 

I was also thankful for this lesson beacause I finally understood the aning of #24db9 (It's a nice color, for me)

But, one thing i'm worried about is how I will memorize all of the tags. 

Well, I hope I could figure that out.

BTW, visit my blog!: thisgurlisonfire.tumblr.com 

(2) Blog Upgrade!

Sir Tom told us that this blog is still going to be our 2nd quarter project. So I made some changes in my blog (or maybe not some but huge) to make it "cooler" and more "awesome" like what Sir Tom said.

I was bored and I have nothing to do so I changed my background and my header. (obviously)

I also started posting now because I don't want again to happen what happened last quarter when we were like going crazy because it was already 12 MN and we haven't subbmited our blog. (Luckily, Sir still accepted it)  Though that was stressful, it was fun because of Nadine and Irish. I remembered, we slept at nearly 3 AM because of that. HAHA

:)

(1) Systematic Systems

The system is a procedure that involves input, process and output.

INPUT- putting in the data using input hardwares:

• keyboard
• mouse
• microphone, etc

PROCESS- processing and manipulating of the data that was put in (that's the CPU's job)

OUTPUT- presentation of information to the user in different forms using output hardwares:

• monitor
• speakers
• printer, etc.

FEEDBACK- this will affect the another input

:)

(1) OVERTIME!

We had our recent practical exam. It was all about using the MS word. When I started the activity, I was working easily and well. Then when I was nearly done, I scrolled the moodle web page downwards then I saw that there are already assigned chapter names and topics. I made my own! We were even required to add sentences so I panicked. (Hindi halata sa blog post na ‘to)

There was only 20 minutes left and I was still at the first chapter. Good thing, I found dummies.com so I got the information from there. I have only done 2 topics, the cover, table of contents and bibliography. I had some troubles at the header. Ugh. -_-

Grades, be good to me...

(Craming din po ang paggawa ng project na ito)

:)

(1) Evil me

Using the DOS is one of the coolest things that I learned in Com. Sci. Finally, I understand the things my uncle types on our computer like MD (create directory), REN (rename), RD (remove or delete directory), CD.. (back), and DIR (display list of files in the current directory)

I can replace him now! Bwahahahahaha!

:)

(1) Spying :)

Data Encryption is the translation of data into secret symbols called cipher text.

People use this to secure files like in government agencies like CIA.

Data Decryption is the changing back of cipher text to plain text.

Just like what they do in spy movies. They decrypt secret codes to figure out evidence.

:)

(1) Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Communications & Technology, what's the difference?

What is computer science?
What is information technology?
What is information communications & technology?

O.O

These questions were really jumbled in my mind. When somebody asks,"What is the difference between the three?" Not considering the spelling, these three do have many differences.

Computer science is a branch of science which deals with computers.

Information Technology is the technology of using a computer to distribute, produce or produce information.

Information communications & technology is the technology that uses telecommunications to access to information.

(1) Compression :)

Data compression is compressing files to become smaller thus easier to transfer to another computer and space is saved.

Just like making acronyms. We can for a acronym by using the beginning letters of the words in the name of companies, schools and things like that so it can be easier to pronounce or mention in letters.

There are many programs that can be used to compress files like StuffIt and WinAce.

:)

(1) "Back Up! Need Back Up!"

Don't we have it when something very important is lost? Like when saving a project then suddenly the disk is formatted. The feeling when all your hardworks was put in that project then,  BOOM, all of that, LOST in a second.

There s a simple way to prevent yourself from blaming whoever formatted the disk and incidents like this. Backing Up files is just saving a copy of the file on a disk. By doing so, you'll never have to worry or throw tantrums when a project is lost.

When I connect an Apple device to our computer, iTunes immediately asks for the back up of the files in the gadget in case it gets deleted while updating the software version of the device. Like a Girl Scout, "Laging Handa!" :)

(1) IKSTIND IND PURMAT

At first, I thought that data format was formatting data like what is dome to removable disks and file extension is like extending a file to make it bigger.

Well, I was wrong.

Based on what I have researched and read, data format is how the information is organized in the data and how it is presented to the user. For example, a PUB file can easily opened as a MS Publisher File.

File extensions are just the letters at the end of the file name that is preceded by a dot(.) so we can easily determine the file type.
EASY AS PI :)

Of course, files also have their own corresponding program so they can function and used by us, the users. Just like Fire Princess, she lives at the Fire Kingdom where there is fire everywhere so she can survive and Finn live in a tree house because he is a monkey. (HUH)

 :)

(1) Wares That are Soft

Softwares are part of the ICT system that gives instructions to the computer.
There are different types of software that can be used on the computer.

One type is the File Organization Software. These softwares are the ones used when browsing through files in our computer. Softwares of this type can also be used in organizing and managing files.

Office Applications are (obviously) applications that are commonly used in offices. They have different uses. Some are used for making business letters, making presentations and many more.

The one you are using now is a type of Web Service Software. Web services soft wares require an internet connection to operate.

:)

(1) Computers VS Human Brain

"A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem. " Wikipedia  said.

"A computer is a complex machine that was invented by people to help them in their daily lives like making projects (like this), making them comfy, making business stuff and things like that.

A computer is really complicated. Because of its complicated-ness, it could work like the human brain. Except for their form, computers and the human brain have many similarities: they control systems, process data and are used by people.

Despite of having many similarities, computers can not exceed the strength of the human brain. There are still many faculties that only the human brain can do. They are the only ones that can detect emotions and can make decisions in life.

Most of all, the human brain is different and unique from computers because it is made by God that's why it is a blessing to the people who have it. Because of having this, we should use this wisely and learn to be an independent thinker instead of always depending on computers." Ninja said.

:)