Author: vutha

WHILE LOOP

my_name = 0
while my_name < 10:
    print "My name is Vutha."

I just wrote a while loop in python code to the computer to print “My name is Vutha” forever. While loop is one of the python code loop using to loop or perform the action until the condition is false. The structure of while loop looks like this:

...
while [condition]:
[action]
...

In my example, my_name = 0 is the variable. while my_name < 10:, while is the loop and my_name < 10: is the condition in a comparison between the value of my_name and an integer 10. Last print “My name is Vutha.” is the action. The computer reads the first line code and sees that my_name has the value equal to 0. The computer takes that value into the while loop and compares it with 10. 0 is less than 10, so the computer continues to read the next line which is the action in the while loop and the action has the value to print “My name is Vutha.” so the computer print:

My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.

FOREVER! It happens like that because of the value of my_name always has the value of 0 forever never change and the computer sees that 0 < 10 is always true never false. If we want the computer to print a certain amount of “My name is Vutha.” , we just need to have a new line of code that looks like this:

my_name = 0
while my_name < 10:
    print "My name is Vutha."
    my_name += 1

The computer reads the same everything until the last line of code in the while loop it updates the value of my_name + 1. Every time, the computer reads the code in the while loop, it updates the value of  my_name + 1 and when it updates the value until 10 it will not print  “My name is Vutha.” because 10 is not less than 10 so the condition is false. It should print the code like this:

My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.
My name is Vutha.

10 TIMES ONLY!

This code is also used while loop. It is a game. Try your best to understand the code!

print "*Please pick a number between 1 and 10. You have only 3 guesses. Try your best to win the game!"

random_number = randint(1, 10)

guesses = 0
while guesses < 3:
    guesses += 1
    number = input("Put a number: ")
    if random_number == number:
        print number, "is correct. You WIN!!! :)"
        break
    else:
        if guesses == 3:
            continue
        print number, "is incorrect. Please, try agian! :("
else:
    print number, "is incorrect. You lose. Game over. Better Luck Nextime! :-"

This round 2 (2018-2019) Jr. Multimedia, was the learning of how to write a story by using story structure. A story structure is the authoring framework or the author style of writing the story. There are many different types of story structures that were created by many story writers. One of the story structure that we choose to make our story framework was the Pixar Pitch Structure created by Pixar computer animation company. The Pixar Pitch structure goes like this:

1. “Once upon a time…” Open a general description for the settings and the characters of the story.
2. “Everyday…” Tell what is the everyday things look like, what do the protagonists and the antagonists do every day.
3. “One day…” A very special moment that makes the story has problems or conflicts that the characters need to do something to help solve.
4. “Because of that…” A first description that tells what changed because of the special moment.
5. “Because of that…” A second description that tells what have changed because of the first description.
6. “Until finally…” The result of the action that the characters have done to solve or make the problems worst. This is where the story end.

You can see how this structure was used in each Pixar movie, for example, Finding Lory. Each student in my class also used this structure to write a story. I wrote a short story and this is the Story.

Besides writing the story by using the Pixar pitch, we all so learn the basic of photography. We learned how to use the camera, the camera setting and each button on the camera and last the basic component that make a good photo such as ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and exposure. Before this lesson was included in the class, I already learned some of the lessons by myself. However, it was a good review and practice. Below are some of the photos that I took during the Outdoor Leadership exploration before I learn the photography lessons from my Jr. Essential Multimedia T. Cindy and thanks to my exploration lead facilitator T. Chanda for spent of his free time to edit all of the photos.

Above image, was taken from www.enettechnologies.com

This round 1 (2018-2019) Jr. Essential Multimedia was an introduction to multimedia. Multimedia is content such as videos, photos, audios, image, texts, animations. Before we get deeper to multimedia, we learned a pre-multimedia which were how to do research on the Internet, how to use the Adobe applications and an introduction to programming. Do you know how to research fast and get the information that you want? Can you trust a website on the Internet? You can do all of that things if you know a simple trick. You can trust most of the websites that have the suffix of .org, .gov, .net, because the owner of the websites pays of that suffix. You can put a minus sign (-) to remove the information that you don’t want. For an example, I want to research about Angkor Wat temple. Sometimes, it shows something else that is not relatable to what I need. I can use the minus sign to cross the word that relates to information that I don’t want, “Angkor Wat -Beer” and it will show you just Angkor Wat Temple information.

Above images, was taken from www.adobe.com

For the Adobe applications, we learned how to use the photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom classic cc. We also make a PDF doc by using that three Adobe applications.

Our last lesson for the round 1 Multimedia, was programming. We studied about algorithm and divide and conquer. An algorithm is strategies or formulas to make repeating pattern problems much easier. Divide and conquer is one of the algorithm strategies. The word divide means to break down or split. Conquer means to take precession or take over something. When it combines together, it means to split and take over the problem and search for the solutions by splitting it into smaller pieces.

For an example from my Multimedia facilitator, Cindy Liu. “It was 10 minutes to midnight on December 24th, and all was not well at the North Pole. Some little elves were wrapping 1024 toys for 1024 good girls and boys. At 5 minutes to midnight, the elves called Santa Claus to tell him the boxes had been filled extra quickly, and Santa Claus was getting ready to leave.

Suddenly an observant elf said: “Where are your dirty socks, Santa?”

A young elf cried, “Santa, I’m so sorry, I dropped your dirty socks in one of the 1024 boxes!”

“Quick, unwrap every single box!” said Santa. “I’m not leaving until you find those socks!”

“Sorry Santa,” said the head elf, “but that will take too much time.”

“Don’t worry,” said Santa. “I have a big pair of scales. All of the boxes will weigh the same except the ones with my socks in it! My socks will make the box heavier.” In this case, we can use divide and conquer to find the solution. If it was me, my first solution was to divide the toys into two big piles and put each pile on each scale. One scale will be heavier than another so the dirty socks will be in that pile. Then divide that heavier pile into two piles again and put each pile on each scale. Repeat this until there is one box left and that will be the dirty socks. It will take ten times to divide.