Web Pages

  The web pages I prefer to look at are makeup and cooking pages.  For makeup, I like to see what products I should use and what looks I could try out.  For cooking, I like to see new recipes that I can make.  For my webpage, I would either like to make one about dance or makeup since those are the two topics I feel most comfortable writing about.

Working with Excel

  The past few lessons with Excel has been very interesting.  We learned a lot of new things that I wasn't aware existed.  For example, the fact that you can find the answer to any equation just by saying A1+A2= will make everything go so much faster in the future.  I do not use Excel often but when I do, I will be able to use it more effectively.

Is Eliza Human?

   I found programming Eliza very hard.  I could not figure out how to get a give the human answers.  I understood that you are supposed to put print("Eliza's response") but that was the only thing I could figure out what to do.  It said something about input("human response") but every time I tried that and I pressed the run button, nothing would show up.  Another thing I didn't understand was how to make a personal response, by using names or such.  It told me to use +name+ inside the the Eliza response but it would just come straight out as +name+.
   One thing that I did understand was how to get two different responses based on a human answer.  Just like the games in Hour of Code, you can give the computer two options to respond to one answer.  For example if Eliza said, print("How was school today?") the next response could be if  ("good") say  ("that's good!") or else say ("how come?").  This makes her seem more realistic and less frustrating to talk to.  Programming Eliza was difficult for me but once you get the hang of it, it is very interesting program to use. 

Hour of Code

   The first program I tried when I got to the website was the One Hour of Code Angry Birds game.  I thought that the game was pretty easy at first but as soon as the more complex blocks were put in, it became tricky.  A few of the levels took me a couple of tries but it was easy to get the hang of after a while.
   The second program I tried was Lightbot.  I found this one to be very similar to the first one I tried.  Out of the two, I enjoyed Lightbot a little bit more.  Lightbot was easier to use since it was more simplistic.
   The final program I used was Tynker.  There was multiple small games inside Tynker so I played one called "Puppy Adventure".  It was extremely slow on my computer so I did not get through many levels.  It was easier than the first two and I had no trouble getting through all the levels I completed.  There was not as many different types of program pieces except for "run" or "bark".  This one would be good for someone who has never programmed before.