school!!

[Alex]

hey. we got our shops today at school and i was wondering what Boolean Algebra is. i heared that it deals alot with 1 and 0 but thats all i heared. im also going to be learning ---
Grade 9 71H1 Exploring Computer Occupations
70H1 Computer Applications I
60H1 Technical Writing
61H1 Boolean Algebra

Grade 10 70H2 Computer Applications II/Web Design
70T2 Digital Electronics
60H2 Programming Concepts
61H2 PC Operating Systems

Grade 11 70H3 Windows 2000 Essentials
71H3 C++ Programming Lab
72H3 PC Repair
60H3 C++ Programming
61H3 Computer Repair Theory
62H3 Help Desk Essentials

Grade 12 70H4 Networking
71H4 SQL/Database Lab
72H4 Advanced Web Design
60H4 Java Programming
61H4 Fundamentals of Communications
62H4 Database Design/SQL

soon i will be answering all of your questions. haha that will be the day.

[morse]

1st: Some poop in there you could weed out.
2nd: What grade you in?

[Alex]

9th

[morse]

So is that for High School next year?

[Alex]

im in high school but im going into this shop thursday

[senocular]

man Id kill for all that in high school.

[eyeinfinitude]

woohoo!! It's about time you answer you own question cause you've stumped me many times with your vague questions. hahaha =)

[Alex]

i really cant stand going to class. my biology teacher is sooo boring:sleep: i fell asleep in there a couple of times. my english teache is worse. thats why i cant wait untill i get back to shop:beam:

[morse]

So this is seperate from school?

[h88]

Originally posted by senocular
man Id kill for all that in high school.

woah yeah, that's damn so much! Grade 11, 12 etc...

[Alex]

nope its a vocational school. 2 weeks of shop, 2 weeks of class

[morse]

Yea, Lame our school had only a networking course, but it was collage credit.

[senocular]

my high school had a half-half-semester (1/8 a year) intro to BASIC. It blew. :-\

[Alex]

ouch.:trout: i couldnt deal with class all year. i would go insain.

[Jubba]

My school didn't have any computer classes. I came from a farming school. :( Kids drove their tractors to school...it was pathetic...

[reverendflash]

My Hi School had a "terminal" which was a big green typwriter like thing with a rather large yellow roll of paper on the back. It was hooked up to the Univ. 3.5 hours away.

You had to punch each letter (touch typing was def out), and when you did the "Daisy Wheel" spun and hit the ribbon, making a mark on the yellow paper.

So you punch, tuka tuka tuka, wait for a response, tuka tuka tuka, rip off the paper and try to read the faded charachters...All of this happened over a period of time, since it took an average of 10 min for the info to travel, do what you wanted it to, then travel back...

There were 5 terminals in the State, my Hi Sch had 1... 5 kids got to learn how to make it spit stuff out... all done in basic...

25 years ago...

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[eyeinfinitude]

wow Rev, that lil tid bit just made me appreciate my computer a lot more!! :o

[ahmed]

well at my school we have a c++ programming course (for grade 10), and we have a two-semister program where you study the CISCO curriculum and get certified by cisco as a CCNA by the time you graduate from high school.. unfortunately though, none of these courses fit in my schedule, as im going into an 8-semister long robotics/manufacturing/electronics program next year (grade 11), in a city thats like 45 minutes away from where i live...... i get to work for the ford company too =) ... bet its gonna be fun :) :bounce:

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by electrongeek
wow Rev, that lil tid bit just made me appreciate my computer a lot more!! :o

and we thought it was sooooo cool. I mean this thing typed by itself! abzoid will back me up on this (he was 2 yrs ahead of me in school)... We used to play chess on it... that and Star Trek (printed out on that yellow paper in symbols)...

my first modem was 9600 baud, a black box with cups for the handset of the phone... 1993

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[NaliWarCow]

Our school has many computers and many computer classes. Its pretty cool (even though most of the computers are slow as crap and people mistreat them so much).

9th:
computer applications (required to graduate and for all other computer classes)

10:
visual basic
C++
Java
business computer applications
desktop publishing

11:
internet publishing 1 (a programming class required for this).
ap computer science (c++ required)
desktop publishing 2 (imagine whats required)

12:
internet publishing 2

Of course you could take c++ youre 11th or 12th grade years, but these are just the earliest you can take the classes, unless you exempt out of a year or 2 of stuff. Pretty much all the classes except AP CS are just free time where we play games though. Especially IP 2 where we've done about 4 hours of work the entire year. And 3 of those hours are just the teacher making up crap for us to do to make it so the class won't be a total waste.

[ahmed]

we do have digital arts course (gr. 11) and a communication course (i.e video editing and photography)... but they kinda suck.. pretty basic stuff.. but wow, your school, NaliWarCowZ, has tons of cool courses.. is it like a provate school or.. just a high school? :)

[senocular]

Originally posted by reverendflash
and we thought it was sooooo cool. I mean this thing typed by itself! abzoid will back me up on this (he was 2 yrs ahead of me in school)... We used to play chess on it... that and Star Trek (printed out on that yellow paper in symbols)...

my first modem was 9600 baud, a black box with cups for the handset of the phone... 1993

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.. and we had to type UPHILL, bothways! (backspace was uphill too) butt-nekkid ...

[NaliWarCow]

My school is public. Our city just has a huge mall that collects TONS of taxes from it. And we have like half our money going to the schools for some reason. its pretty cool. We have about 9 classrooms with about 30 computers in each one. Its pretty wierd how much our school spends on education and yet how little they actually care about it. Our principal could care less if the school shut down, just as long as we get lots of state championships from the football team and other sports.

[Geko_X]

well here in Antigua its rather worse. most schools just started to get computers and they r far outdated now anyways. i guess they got them cheap or something. most schools don't even teach anything that require serious thought. they do like classes for Word, Excel, and Database. they just build a new school like a year ago for mainly computer studies. u can get an associates in basically anything computer related. still sucks cuz the teachers and professors......well they suck. I was doing my associates in Network Administration but it wasn't working out for me. :skull: o well. basically most people just have a computer around here to say they have one. no real usage of it for anything other than to type of a word document or surf the net. :hangover: its pathetic.

[eyeinfinitude]

Hmm....I've never seen you around before gecko, have you been gone long? That is sad that the schools over there are like that, I feel fortunate. :-\

[Geko_X]

na Electrongeek. ive been on the forums alot since i signed up. haven't posted very often just interested what people have to say and their ideas. mostly when i have a question about something i cant figure out on my own. yea. i feel fortunate that im intelligent enough to learn most things on my own. :geek:

[eyeinfinitude]

well it's good that you finally decided to conversate with us, it's always good to have a new voice around here. =)

[Geko_X]

i got alot to learn about flash still. ive tried out most of the tutorials on the site, get irritated having to use predone .fla's so i just start from scratch and stuff. like to know that i can do the stuff myself. i have narcalepsy(hope i spelt that right) and working and tryin to do this at the same time is kinda hard, not enough time between passing out and other stuff to come up with something or test out everything to be a really big voice. i do have ideas just have to find the time to implement them.
=)

[eyeinfinitude]

I on the other hand have a hard time sleeping sometimes...:-\

[Geko_X]

Before i started to work i had alot of time on my hands especially in the night cuz i sleep mostly during the day. but i wasn't as into flash then as i am now. which really sucks. my only problem right now with flash is that im disorganized. like creating a web page and such i wanna do it with mostly flash maybe use dream weaver or indesign to do my layout but since i have neither of those on this computer, ive just decided to try and figure out how to do it with mainly flash. thats hard tho. i know im just not thinking straight.

[eyeinfinitude]

I usually try to pre-plan a website before I actually work with the programs. I rough sketch how I want it to look on paper and use it as a guide while working int he programs. It cuts down on time sitting there thinking of what to do next. Maybe you should give it a try sometimes, it works for me, maybe it would work for you. Just draw it out, it doesnt have to be all nice or anything.

[Geko_X]

i do that as well but i im a little confused as to what to do when layin it out. like i don't know if i should make the page like one big movie with smaller movie clips inside cuz the work area isn't that large u know. or if i should just create a bunch of movies like the elements of the page and then like put them at strategic points on the page. like a banner ad would be one swf and place it on top then my main movie in the middle text in a different box to the side which isnt part of the main movie and so on. u know that kind of thing. like my menu would be a different movie again which would call the main movie and let it play in the center or something. what is a good idea????