Lab #11

The purpose of lab 11 was for us to understand how we can call different functions into one element for example for the two elements that are shown when you go over one of them, then you can see how the text changes,  how the color changes and then for one of them the text changes one more time. Life is just easier if by the time you create the elements you give it an id so you can find it later on easier. Also you can tell it how fast or slow you want it to stay or fade out and what you want it to do. This is useful for the future in case you want to use it for design and just make your page more appealing.

Lab 12

For lab 12 we had to basically create a type of mini dropdown menu to output the answers of some questions about our favorite subject in school. I chose art class because I just really enjoy drawing or painting. The most important about this lab is that we were able continue onto our knowledge on JQuery and put it into practice. We were also introduced into three different html tags. <dl> which means description list, <dd> is used to describe a term or name in a description list and <dt> defines a term or name in a description list as well.  All of this could be done with the simple code shown in the picture to your JS folder. But another thing you would need to add is css to your document in order to make it a bit more appealing and to make it easier for the viewer to understand the point. Some of the things you can change are the font family, the font size, the border size and to obviously make sure the colors match.

Lab 10

For lab 10 we had to introduce the basics of JQuery. All we needed to do was create four type of buttons to show how they hide, show, fade in, and fade out. In my opinion JQuery just seems to be so much simpler than any other programming language and the thing is that with this you dont exactly need to watch out for quotation marks and what not because it does its job without any trouble either way. The code i used is shown here but to be more explicit all that you really need is to give the specific part you want to change an id. This will come handy later on because you will not only be able to call a function on that specific element but also you will be able to perform any css changes to it and give it a little design.

                           

WBL Workshop #5

Friday, March the fifth I was given the opportunity to attend the TEN80 education workshop sponsored by the U.S Army held at York College. It was a really fun event. We were noticed that we were all going to attend to a different category this to where 6 different workshops were available. The Lead, the Pitch, the Race, the Game, the Beat and the Code. I was told to go to code and so we followed two guys who were representatives of that single workshop.  Afterwards they took us into the working area and we were given some little project that we had to complete in small groups.  I worked with a complete stranger from another school but I found it usefull in the sense where I got to actually talk to someone and whatever she knew I learned and whatever I knew I'd pass it onto her. So i put into practice one of the soft skills which is communication and also working in groups.  So the little project was about creating our own video game. I found it interesting because we used a program that i had never seen before but it felt nice when i recognized some pieces of code. After this we were supposed to come up with another game without many instructions given, because we didnt have enough time we weren't able to complete it but I feel like for the most part the lady that was in charge of us did know how to cover the key factors of the whole presentation. We were then back at the auditorium with the rest of our classmates,  we grabbed lunch and that was all for the day.  I did enjoy this trip,  I gained a lot of knowledge, I met new people and most importantly I completed another requirement to graduate with a CTE diploma.