Monday, February 28, 2011

OPT IN FACEBOOK

Question #1
Technologies that facilitated the regime change


1. Facebook
Facebook was created from a somewhat different thinking Harvard student. He created a social networking site to take all the hassle out of showing your friends how you spent your day. It allowed like minded protesters in Egypt to get together and consolidate ideas with out having to actually be in physical contact.
2. Google
Google was created by god-like programmers that decided to change the way people found information on the web. Using an intuitive program that quickly found information on the web allowed people to keep track on the protested.

3. Cell phones
Cell phones kept the protesters in communication for the duration of the protest with out having to use the internet. This allowed protesters to remain in contact for the whole event and coordinate their movements.


Question #2

Item one is a jacket with a hood. This would have been useful for protecting one against the elements. Since you would undoubtedly spend a large amount of time outdoors, you would need to guard yourself against the elements.

Item two is a pot lid. I don't know the exact use for one in this situation, so I can only speculate. I believe that one might have used it to protect oneself against possible thrown objects.

Item three is a pair of gloves. These are useful for keeping ones hands warm in a variety of situations and to keep your hands protected from harmful objects.

Item 4 is a spray paint can. Since this is a protest, various posters, signs and even graffiti would have been used. Since spray paint is very portable, it would have been useful to bring along.

Item 5 is a rose. Once again I have no idea what the exact use is, so I will speculate. I believe that the rose had a symbolism of some sort and that when people were walking by, the protesters would give said rose to them in some fashion.

Item 6 is a trash bag. I believe that it would be used to either carry ones belongings or to gather waste during the protest.

Item 7 is a pair of goggles. This was most definitely used to protect one's eyes. Whether from the sun or from protesting resistance is unknown.

Sub programs FOR THE WIN


The activity of today was to create a program that runs within another program. This is also known as a sub-program.
A benefit of using sub-programs is that it allows the main program to remain uncluttered. This allows you to identify any problems without a large cluster of commands.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The branch function with a defined variable

Today in class I set up a program that defines a variable as zero. Then it runs a loop that adds 1 to the variable as long as it is under 5 with a time delay of one second. After it reaches a value over than five, it will terminate itself.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

activity 3.1.2 Flowcharting

1. Flowcharting is similar to a map route because it offers a very intuitive path based way to reach the end or the desired result. All you need to do is follow the directions of the flow charts.

2. A process that I do every morning is get up and get ready for school. Examine my beautifulness.










Thursday, February 10, 2011

activity 3.1.1

5.1 unchecked
5.2 zero
5.3 no
6.1 checked
6.2 one
6.3 present
7. The switch switched its behavior
9. 43 to 5000
11. 5000
12. 1183
14. Switch the polarity of the motor
15.when the reed switch is on the magnet it triggers returning a 1
16. Normally closed
18. the light is closed
19. more light equals more resistance
20. set it as the opposite
21. no change necessary

1. The lines on the limit switch tell you which wire is normally closed or open
2. The reverse of pulse width modulation, its a voltage reader.
3. It increases as the Resistor gets warmer

Friday, February 4, 2011

Content is king

Q1. My hobby happens to be shredding on the guitar.
Q2. I don't really know any people that post their achievements in the guitaring industry in a blog, but I will see if I can find it.
3. I could really see myself blogging more about technical things that normal people might not understand like how physics of objects work, or maybe programming of some kind.