This week I will be talking about what I have learned in my programming class (ICS). The first few days were not that interesting. We watched a movie called I Robot for two days. After watching a movie, our teacher gave us an assignment. The assignment was that we had to write a short paragraph about what the world would look like if it was no portable technology.
Once three days had passed we finally started programming. To start programming, we had to bring a USB key. This was because the school has blocked the use of programs on school computers. The school was afraid that viruses might be downloaded. Luckily, the teacher told us to bring our USB keys during the first three days.
Our first lesson would be how to make a web page. First, we went to visual studios. Visual studios is a software we could write programs on. Next, the teacher instructed us to choose the programming language C#. After everyone has chosen programming language C#, we entered the design phase. The first thing we did was change the background. We all went to the Internet to find a nice looking background. After we found a background we imported it into our program. Then we put in buttons, text boxes, labels, and picture boxes into the program. Just like the background we searched for images to replace the buttons and other things.
After we finished the design phase, it was time to make them do stuff. The first thing our teacher told us to do, was to program the picture to show up when we click the button. To start we needed to double-click the background. Doing this brings me to the console. I then typed “Picture1.Hide();”. This command will hide the image when the program starts. Next, I double-clicked on the button. In the console, I tried the show command. To show something I needed to type “Picture.Show();”. Now when I start the program the picture is gone, but if I click the button the picture appears.
In the end, I liked my first programming experience. The things I did on my first day was very simple. However, I do hope I learn more and that should happen later on in the year. Overall, I had fun and I hope to learn more.