Cow Goes "Weekly Status Report 6" Moo

Week 6 of Cow Goes Moo, the tiring first week back from the March Break, we learned many new skills and did developed new programs. First we learned new toolbos controls like HScrollBar and TrackList. Hscrollbar is a bar that moves left and right depending on the value given. TrackList is similar to HScroll bar, expect that theres is a pointer instead of a bar that moves left and right. We applied these new skills in developing a Temperature Converter where we enter the Temperature in Fahrenheit and converts it in to Celsius and determine the conditions with Freezing, Cold, Comfortable, Too Hot or Boiling. We used new control like the PictureBox, where we can add a picture in it. We learned about many different Data Types used in Visual Basics. So far, we learned String, Interger, Long, Single, Double, Date, Boolean, and Byte, and learned in which situation to used them. Also to help us to idenfity the data type, we learned to use prefixes like int, sng, dbl, dec, and str in front of the name of the variable. We learned the Web Awareness Internet Safety Pledge and completed a three paragraph essay about our opinion about Web Awareness. Lastly, we learned about String, a text composed of a sequence of zero or more characters. We also learned 16 different string functions we can use and completed the chart that explains what each function does. We developed a program, String Tutorial, that runs ten of the string functions using the ListBox.

Objective of the week was to stay awake, which I was successful at, and complete what ever we learn in class. Currently, the only work remaining is the Temperature Converter that uses the Tracklist. The objective, or the goal for next week is to finish that program and try to develop the new programs with less help from the classmates.

The challenge faced from last week, which was performing poorly on the test, somehow got solved by itself. I got the test back and surprising, I did much much better than I expected. Some of the other challenges this week was that it took me a long time to understanding the new functions, but by just looking at it over and over, I was somehow able to understand them.