Flowchart Number 2- Bath

Flowchart Number 1.- Weather

Monday 20th of October 2008

Hello Journal,

This is just an exercise on getting used to flowcharts. As you see above and below in my other psots I have done, one document where it shows the symbols associated with what they are for. The other flowchart is the bath one, showing the process of getting a hot tub bath ready. The one above is the weather flowchart which shows deciding weather or not to put a jumper on!

I have also added different shades of colour to my flowcharts, to decorate it !

Sanea.

My Flowchart Symbols

“Computers never do what you want them to do,they only do what you tell them to!"

Thursday 16th October 2008

Hello Journal,

This is the last of the definitions task:

6. Flowchart Symbols

To see this picture more detailed, its on this link here>>>>http://www.edrawsoft.com/images/shapes/AuditFlow_Shapes.png

“Computers never do what you want them to do, they only do what you tell them to!"

Thursday 16th October 2008
Hello Journal,

These are the definitions that we needed to find out, just to get some background information on creating computer programs.

1. Algorithms- A step-by-step problem-solving procedure, especially an established, recursive computational procedure for solving a problem in a finite number of steps.

2. Pseudocode- Program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used. Also called symbolic code. For example, the pseudocode for a bubble sort routine might be written:

while not at end of list

compare adjacent elements

if second is greater than first

switch them

get next two elementsif elements were switched

repeat for entire list

3. Machine language- The lowest-level programming language (except for computers that utilize programmable microcode) Machine languages are the only languages understood by computers. While easily understood by computers, machine languages are almost impossible for humans to use because they consist entirely of numbers. [A set of instructions for a specific central processing unit, designed to be usable by a computer without being translated. Also called machine code.]

4. High-level computer language- A programming language such as C, FORTRAN, or Pascal that enables a programmer to write programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. Such languages are considered high-level because they are closer to human languages and further from machine languages. In contrast, assembly languages are considered low-level because they are very close to machine languages.

The main advantage of high-level languages over low-level languages is that they are easier to read, write, and maintain. Ultimately, programs written in a high-level language must be translated into machine language by a compiler or interpreter.

5. Flowchart- graphical representation of the sequence of operations in an information system or program. Information system flowcharts show how data flows from source documents through the computer to final distribution to users. Program flowcharts show the sequence of instructions in a single program or subroutine. Different symbols are used to draw each type of flowchart.

Dairy Entry 9

Sunday 12th October 2008,
Hello Journal,
Today Sunday 12th of October, I have finally finished my assigment, it took a lot of time and ofcourse research and its finished, I am very happy with what I have written, how I have presented it:). I think the things which needed a lot of research was the how it works part? especially for topics such as ROM and the Iriver,but I have managed and finished. As well as that the future technology also needed a lot of research, I mainly picked future inventions which were going to be released in 2009. So I made sure I finished before my IST lesson on Tuesday. Its been a fun actually working on it, a lot of work went into it but I learnt a lot. If someone had asked what ROM was or what a motherboard or Iriver was I wouldnt have known at all before this assignment. I guess the whole point was to learn and understand new things. My Url for my Piczo website is already put up as mentioned before so my teacher can mark it!
Well thats all for now, until another exciting IST assignment!
Sanea.

Diary Entry 8

Saturday 11th of October 2008
Hello Journal,
On Friday the 10th of October, I finished my Piracy and Copyright finally, yay!, i just have one little part to type thats the how it works part. Even for the other topics I just have to do the how it works and future technology. I have added pictures to my Piracy and Copyright page and the website I used to the website page. While i ws typing this it didnt go as planned. I had typed all the way upto the costs and I decided to put it on the actual page, so that it would be saved, I pressed okay and then Piczo told me I had to sign in( I think it had something to do with the website being open for nearly a day), so i signed in and then I couldnt find any information that I had type, absolutely nothing, I was shocked, I had a feeling something like this would happen. I searched and searched but I couldnt find my typed up piece. Luckily I had the right mind before to save part of it (my introduction, what it is ?question and half of types of it question) it on Word document on my USB, so atleast I had that, so I rewrote the rest that had got deleted, infact it didnt take much time at all I remebered what i had written and I got the website I had used for my information open. So I rewrote the types and the cost and finished the future technology. So I will definetly done by the time school starts on Monday, no matter what!
What a day!
Sanea.

Diary Entry 7

Thursday 2nd October 2008
Hello Journal,
On Tuesday the 30th of October, I continued with my IST assignment, I made a new link, its a whole page dedicated to the websites that I used. I have put each topic,so for e.g ROM and then the listings of the websites. For each topic i think there will be more websites I will have to add since im not fully done yet. Even for my website page the background is linked to the topic :).
As well as that, on the main index, at the bottom I have added the practice link that we had to do on Broadband and Cable Internet Connection and Wireless Broadband, since i had it on my original piczo, I decided that since it is associated with this current assignmetn i decided to put it on my assigment website, so I transferred the information from the other piczo to the my IST piczo website and set the background to go with the topic as well as included some pictures. I have also changed the link which I have originally put on my blogger post to SaneaIST....my other information on Wireless Broadband remains on Pageflakes, as we had to put our two topics on two different websites.
I still have to figure my video problem, even if i choose a video from the 'piczo zone' they are definetly not going to have videos on ROM and Motherboards etc.... So ill have to find a way to get the videos on each page. I have also decided that each video is mainly going to be from YouTube even though the videos will be unable to be viewed at school, it is important that my teacher gets to see them as they are part of my presentation!
There must be some way to get them onto my website.
Sanea.

Diary Entry 6

Thursday 2nd October 2008
Hello Journal,
I started on Monday the 29th of September putting all of my research that i had written on Micrsoft word as well as my pictures on Piczo. I decided to make a whole new website of Piczo for my IST assignment. So I started with first making my Main Index, I experimented with different styles to make the page. The background for each of the pages are linked to what the whole pages is about so therefore for the main index, its an IST assignment, so i decided to put a computers in the background and so for the other pages like the ipod nano chromatic I put the actual ipod nano in the background. I placed the links on the Main Page with a picture next to each link to let the viewer look at what is going to be talked about on that page before clicking on its link. It took a lot of time putting all of that together.
Getting to each of the pages, so I put y background to match with the topic, pasted my information and right next to the info I put the pictures as well as little headings informing about what the picture actually is. Becasue of the background, the writing couldnt be seen that well, so I put a bacground colour behind the text to make it easier. There are sufficient pictures to each page. One difficulty that i still am figuring out is about how to actually put a video on each page. Since its the holidays i cant ask my teacher. The problem is that when i click on video upload i can only get a video saved in a file on my computer. So i know what video I want, the problem is i dont know how to save it on my computer and there is no link where as I can upload the video onto my page. So I am still figruing that out becasue without the video my presentation is not complete. For each page the title for the topic i have programmed in such a way that it is moving which i really like that it makes it very IST-ish. So i spent the whole Monday doing that. I still have Piracy and Copyright to do and i have to fill in the How it works section and Future technology and edit it for each topic.
I have changed my link on the url term 3 assigment on Student net, originally i have put it as my other normal piczo page but now it is under Saneaist....
Sanea.