Exit Questions

Which assignments did you enjoy and why?
I enjoyed the QB64 assignments because there was freedom with the colours, and it was quite simple to do after I figured out the locations of SCREEN 12
Which assignments did you struggle with and why?
I struggled with the Algodoo assignments because nothing I tried doing would make the actions work, and it got really frustrating.

Sum up your IT experience 
     ... What did you learn?
I learned how to mask objects in Animate CC, and use different lighting effects.     ... What should you have done to do better?
I should have asked for help more often.
If you were to take IT in the future, what would you like to explore?

A different variety of assignments, or different projects within Photoshop.

Minecraft Slideshow #2

Minecraft Slideshow- #1

Animate Basic Masking-1

Masking- Lighting Effect #2

Masking- Lighting Effect #1

GJ Day 2: SURVIVE

The challenge is to get a distress pistol from the summit of Timberwolf Mountain, then set it off at the top of the lighthouse at Desolation Point, all while trying to survive.

Mystery Lake is where you start your expedition.

To make water safe, you use a fire to melt snow, then purify/boil the water.

Logging Camp trailer/bunk.

Trailer from the Hydro Dam.

Hunter's Blind from "Unnamed Pond"

Frozen corpses often have good finds, some are just empty.

This is what the charcoal does. It updates the map by "surveying the local area" and tell you whatever is nearby that can be useful to you.

This is what I did today, I got myself some food, and some fuel for fires, which is essential in this challenge. To stay alive in this challenge, staying warm is a key factor. You can die from hypothermia and frostbite very quickly. Another key factor would be to stay covered up. If you don't have anything on your head or hands, frostbite will develop quite quickly.

Deer meat is a great meal, only if it is cooked.

Sticks are abundant and a great fuel source for keeping fires going.

TIPS & TRICKS:

- Try to run as less as possible, it makes you very tired if you do.

- Remember where you have been, so if you die you know where you need to go.

- Update the map as often as you can, so you don't miss out on valuable finds.

GJ Day 1: BEGIN

The challenge of Hopeless Rescue is to get a distress pistol from the summit of Timberwolf Mountain and set it off at the top of the lighthouse at Desolation Point, without dying.

I looted the cabin before I took my screenshot.

My first fire was really successful, because of the accelerant, and I melted snow for water, boiled my dangerous water, and cooked some venison.

I placed my snare where I saw rabbits and I am still waiting for one to be caught

Today I focused on getting materials to go on my adventure to the mountain, by making tinder and breaking down chairs and crates for firewood.

Algodoo- Tutorial

QB64- Planets

QB64- House

QB64- Updated Barcelona '92

QB64- Barcelona '92

QB64- Flower

QB64- Circles

CodeAcademy- Achievements

Animate CC- Ocean

Animate CC- City

Predicted Grade

Predicted Grade

Super Moon

Definition: the phenomenon whereby the moon appears particularly large in the sky owing to the coincidence of its closest approach to the earth (the perigee) with a full (or new) moon.

A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.

During a brief window of time—about five hours—the moon will cycle through several phases as it passes into and back out of perfect alignment with the Earth and sun. Viewers from eastern Asia through the Pacific to western North America will be in the moon’s path of totality. 

What is a Supermoon?

Blue Moon

Definition: a phenomenon whereby the moon appears bluish owing to smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere.

The reason the second definition of blue moon exists is down to an error originally made by amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett (1886–1955). He misunderstood the basis for calculating the seasonal Blue Moon and wrote that a Blue Moon was the second Full Moon in a month in an article published in Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946. This erroneous definition since spread, particularly after it was quoted in a popular radio program called StarDate in 1980 and then appeared as an answer in a 1986 version of the board game Trivial Pursuit. Today, it is considered a second definition rather than a mistake.A Moon that actually looks blue, however, is a very rare sight. The Moon, full or any other phase, can appear blue when the atmosphere is filled with dust or smoke particles of a certain size; slightly wider than 0.7 micron. The particles scatter the red light, making the Moon appear blue. This is known as Mie scattering, and can happen for instance after a dust storm, a forest fire, or a volcanic eruption.

Eruptions like the ones on Mt. Krakatoa, in Indonesia (1883), El Chichon, Mexico (1983), on Mt. St. Helens (1980) and Mount Pinatubo (1991) are all known to have made the moon look blue. Some people even suggest that the term once in a Blue Moon is based on these rare occasions, rather than the Full Moon definitions.

BLUE MOON EXPLAINED

Blood Moon

                                               

Definition: the phenomenon whereby the moon in total eclipse appears reddish in color as it is illuminated by sunlight filtered and refracted by the earth's atmosphere.

A "blood moon" happens when Earth's moon is in full eclipse. While it has no special astronomical significance, the view in the sky is striking as the usually white-ish moon becomes red or ruddy-brown. The moon orbits around Earth, while Earth orbits around the sun. The moon takes about 27 days to orbit Earth and goes through regular phases in a 29.5-day cycle. The difference in these two cycles has to do with the relative positions of the sun, Earth and moon, which change during the moon's orbit.

 



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