Category: Years

Disclaimer: This is base on what I understand during the Class and it’ not covered all that I have learned. Just meant to give a short quick tip.

“Can someone help me put this apple, banana, pineapple, mango, longans, and grapes in this basket for me please?” It is an easy and simple task to do in the physical world but how does someone put that fruit list into a python language, let it reads and use it for their action? Well, you are have come to the right spot!

Definition:
First of all, list in python is a code that just contains any data types: strings, integers in a pair of square bracket [….] and stored them in a variable as a database. It is in order; not messy and we able to change what should be inside the list.

Code Form:
The code form of a list looks like this:

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]

Just like that!
All of the fruits are the data types, the basket is the parentheses and the list is stored in the refrigerator which is the variable.

How to use the list:
Let’s think! It turns out that the uses of it are just the same as using any type of variable in python. You can print it out like this:

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ('apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes')

Like that!

How to add an item in a list:
Do also want to add more items into your list and use it later. You just have to add a new line of code like this:

refrigerator.append ….

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. refrigerator.append “durian”
3. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ['apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes', 'durian']

Remember: This type of code can only add one item at a time! If you have a lot of items that you want to add you might need to use another type of code.

How to take out an item in a list:
How about one time that you want to remove an item from your list when you don’t need it. Again, you just have to add a new line of code like this:

refrigerator.remove ….

1. refrigerator = [“apple”, “banana”, “pineapple”, “mango”, “longans”, “grapes”]
2. refrigerator.remove(“durian”)
3. print(refrigerator)

Computer: ['apple', 'banana', 'pineapple', 'mango', 'longans', 'grapes']

Remember: This code also has the same rule as the adding item into a list!

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.