June 15 2023

Core Competency Self Assessment #2 – Computer Programming 11

Reflection:

This assignment is called “Turtle Game”, and for it, we made a game using the Turtle module. After watching and copying the videos to make this assignment, I wanted to take it a bit further. But first I’ll explain what the basic part of it does.

You use the arrow keys to control the little blue triangle, your spaceship, the left and right to change the angle, and the up and down to change the speed. As you move around your spaceship, you’re trying to hit the pink circles. Those are “space anomalies” (because I had no idea what to name them). While you are doing this, a black hole floats around. If you hit a space anomaly, you get 10 points. If the black hole hits you, you lose 10 points. Those are displayed at the top corners of the screen (the overall total of things hit is at the bottom). Oh, and whenever you hit something, it bounces to another random spot on the screen and then continues to float in a random direction.

Right, then there’s the modifications I added. So the black hole is actually something I thought of, I though it should be a bit more interesting than just floating around. Also, after an amount of time, the screen changes and shows a percentage. This is based on how many space anomalies you hit out of the total number of things hit.

During this assignment, we worked with “classes”, new things that are a bit confusing. Instead of naming a turtle (I’ve been naming mine after Doctor Who characters, trying to see how long it’ll take the teacher to notice. Rose, Mickey, Donna, Martha, Amy, Vincent, Rory, River, Melody, and Clara so far), we just call it “self” and that means that turtle within that class. Anyways, that was new and was a slight problem when I was playing around with stuff and changing some things.

“I Can Statements”:

I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area I’m interested in or passionate about
(Creative Thinking)
I can usually make my ideas work…
(Creative Thinking)
I can monitor my progress and adjust my actions to make sure I achieve what I want
(Critical Thinking)
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April 18 2023

Core Competency Self Assessment – Computer Programming 11

Flowers. In a flower pot. Made with Turtle, coded in Python.

Reflection:

One of the assignments, the “flower field, wasn’t working. For this assignment, we had to copy some of the teacher’s code, and then write some of our own to make the turtle draw flowers at random positions. At first, the flowers were being drawn outside the screen, which didn’t make sense. So I played around with the buffer sizes until it looked ok to me. Another problem I ran into was when I asked the computer to make 4 flowers, it made 16. For some reason, it squared the number of how many flowers I wanted. So I compared the teacher’s code and mine, and it turns out I added a random line that she didn’t have. That’s fixed now. I think I did pretty good on this assignment overall. 1) it works. 2) I added flower stems and a flower pot to be a bit more creative.

“I Can” Statements:

I can experiment with different ways of doing things
(Critical Thinking)
I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area I’m interested in or passionate about
(Creative Thinking)
I build the skills I need to make my ideas work, and usually succeed, even if it takes a few tries
(Creative Thinking)
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January 20 2023

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

My Artifact

This is a picture of the Extended Metaphor Assignment. For this assignment, we were to find a piece of nature that is a metaphor of life.

Curricular Competencies Reflection

For this assignment we learned how in some First Nations texts, they use nature to represent different struggles and victories through life. Going up a steep hill is difficult, representing the struggle to get past an obstacle. But there is the flat bit at the top of the hill, once we’ve gotten past the obstacle, for us to relax and go back to enjoying life.

Core Competencies Reflection

Thinking – During this assignment, I had to think outside the box in order to find some creative metaphors for a river representing life.
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November 10 2022

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

My Artifact

This is a picture of the Imagery Write In Class Assignment. For this, we looked at a picture, then had to write as if we were there. The goal was to paint a picture with words, of a place we haven’t been.

Curricular Competencies Reflection

Despite missing the class this was taught, I was able to create and communicate my ideas to complete the assignment pretty decent-ly. To help me with this assignment, I pictured what it was like at a beach i’ve been to. I wrote about that beach and added some trees. I was able to write in all 5 senses, which helped better describe the scene.

Core Compitencies Reflection

The core compitency for this assignment was “thinking.” During this assignment, I was thinking on how to describe the scene the way the teacher wanted. I was able to fix this problem by imagining that I’m in the picture, narrating stuff in first-person.

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