New Activates Evaluation (Typing Turtle)

Ranking 3.5/5
The Typing Turtle activity is a game which involves typing. You type the words that would appear in the bubble, you can do it with looking on the keyboard or without looking. This activity helps you to type better and faster, also you can learn to touch type. For every letter that you type it would disappear, if you don’t type the letter it will remain until you type it, but if you are to slow the word will fly away and you would miss it. The bubbles will appear faster each time as you type.
Some positive sides on this game is the lay out and design. It is very tidy and the back ground is white so only the bubbles stand out for the users to see the words. The words in the bubble is quite easy to identify because the letter is bold and in a readable font. Another good thought on this game is that the bubbles will gradually fly up faster so it would make it more challenging for the player.

Some negative thoughts on this game are that the words in the bubbles sometimes appear repeatedly . Some of the words are to short and some words are just made up words. Also the speed of the bubble rising up is quite fast, the speed should increase only if the player is getting the hang of the current speed then increase it slowly.

There are not many interesting points in this game. It is just a plain typing game that allows users to type better, but overall this game it very useful for people who want to type better. This game could be played by people of any age , you could learn to type if your young or you might want to become a better type for older people. The graphic of this game is also quite good just for a typing game.

Turtl Art

During these week in control Tec our class has been using the Turtle Art activity which is run on sugar operating system . Turtle art is a program that allows you to work and make shapes with directions. You make lines using the instruction codes and the turtle follows the directions to make a shape u desire.

When i first used Turtle Art i found it difficult but once I played around for awhile i noticed its not very difficult to use. It is easy to make simple shapes such as squares and triangles but it is more complex to make hard shapes like octagons and shapes that overlap each other. I got quite a lot of help from my friends in the beginning but after i was able to do it myself. Turtle Art is a quite a fun activity to use, you just need time to learn the codes.

Most part i found difficult was using the variables, but the teacher explained it to me quite well after, and i got more of a understanding of it. The Variables are to make it more easy for you to design a complex shape. You can enter values and signs like +, x or / and it would be more easier to find the values of the shape you are making.

This is one of the shapes i made, there is 8 triangles altogether that over laps each other


























These are the codes I used to make this shape

sugar icon

In the past few lessons in control technology we have been learning how to use HTML kit to design svg pictures. We have been making circles and simply shapes for the start and gradually move on to more advance shapes such as lines and eclipses. The reason we were using HTML kit was to replace the icon on the sugar operating system with our own design.

When we successfully designed our icon on HTML kit we tried to put it on sugar by using the Terminal program. The teachers gave us sheets to follow the instructions, but some people had problem replacing the icon. Some people had either corrupted the Usb stick or did not follow the instructions on the sheet to well.

I found it a little hard to follow the sheet, but i got a more of a understand of if after my friends helped me on .

My icon was a little bobly man holding a gun.

Joel Stanley Guest Speaker

On Wednesday on the 5th of August we were visited by another guest named Joel Stanley. Joel is currently studying computer engineering at the University of Adelaide. When Joel came to our class room we decided instead of him telling us about him self, we would ask him what we would like to know about him.
These are the questions we asked him and the answers he gave us:

Q- What do you do ?
A- I am studying computer engineering at the University of Adelaide.

Q- Why did you chose to study computer engineering?
A-I chose to study this because, I went to a year 10 camp and I had a tour of the University, and engineering I really had a interest in.

Q-How long did you work on the XO project?
A I worked on it for 10 weeks.

Q-How did you learn to touch type?
A- I learned it while using msn.

Q-What is your project?
A- Making and Developing XO's, placed XO's in an pie oven on 65 degrease and the XO's still worked fine.

Q-How long did you worked on the XO project?
A- I worked on it for

10 weeks.

Q- What does MIT stand for
A MIT stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this is where computers and laptops come from, MIT also designed Guitar Hero.

Q- Are you a Microsoft fan or Linux fan ? A- I'm a Linus fan, I don't like Microsoft because it annoys me. Also Linus is a free open source software.

Q-Why are there arrows.
A the arrows are pointing in Romania, They were going to to get the XO's to there.

Q-What happened to the OX screen?
A-The OX was in a trial to test it while dropping it. The XO is quite strong, it you drop it by accident the XO would be still fuction well.

Q-what did you doo in your project?
A-I test the parts of the XO's to see how much power they use. The sceen uses the most powers and the Cpu is the second part that use the most power. XO is drop proof 1 out of a 100 will break.

Q-What does the coloured arrow stand for?
A- Green=OX's are being ,trialed in that country. Blue and purple=Countries are using the XO's.

Q-What are the 2 flip thingy on the XO
A-They are anntenas.

Q-How long did you stay in America?
A- Istayed there for 3 months.

Q-why are there 3 pads on the OX?
A-There was 3 pads because one was for your finger and the other two was for other object, but this didnt work out, soo the OX only use finger on the pads.

Joel also told us other infomations like:
-Mary Lou was the person who invented the OX sceen.
- Richard Smith worked on the small parts of the XO.
-you can use the XO to communicate with other XO machines, such as sending messages and sending photos.
-A project in America called 2 XO's, if you buy 2 XO's , one you can keep and the other goes to someone eles around the world.

Jigsaw Puzzle

Today I played with the puzzle activity. I found this activity quite fun and easy to use. You can set your puzzle pieces to any amount, you could set it to 4 to 16 pieces. You can also make your puzzle into different shapes like into square pieces.

This activity is one of the easiest activity among the other activities. Kids could play this and help their brains develop the skills of solving things.

Sugar Physics

I have played around with the physic activity. I found the activity really fun and it is very easy to use. This activity allows the user to make shapes, drag them and move them around. Shapes include circls, squares, octogon and you may also draw your pwn shapes.

This activity is a great idea for little kids to have a play with it becuase it is very simple to use. Kids may aslo develope the basic of physic by playing iwht this activity.