notesbyNicholas

I have been programming using a thing called ruby. Ruby is the first step to programming. You can't control the computer but you can make it say stuff. you also have to use command prompt (or terminal on Linux computers). I use my Ubuntu Linux computer for programming with ruby. Here is a example of what would happen: It asks you for your name. When you type it it greets you with your name. If you type my name, it says: your awesome Nicholas. Here is the program in code:

puts 'what is your name?'

name = gets.chomp

if name== 'Nicholas'

puts 'your awesome ' + name + '!'

else

puts 'hello ' + name + '!'

end

The two screen-shots is from my longest program.

but lately I have been using plain terminal instead of ruby, which is very dangerous because you can wipe the entire computer from there. in fact, I once was running a program on the terminal (actually, I was installing a program on terminal), when all of a sudden a license agreement came up. I didn't know how to accept it so I exited the terminal, which closed the program. after that I couldn't install anything. I rebooted the computer but it still wouldn't install anything. it kept on saying another program was using it.thankfully, I was able to type in the right command and it closed the other program. the last picture is from the command prompt.

Minecraft is a game where you survive as long as you can while building thing such as parks and mansions. You can also craft. There are three modes:

 

Survival:

survival is where you can die but can always re-spawn. When you start a survival game you start out with nothing except your hand. You can chop or mine grass or you can explore the area.

 

Hardcore:

Hardcore is the same as survival but you only get one life.

 

Creative:

You have unlimited resources and you cannot die. It is best for testing thing such as traps.

I have got a app called Minecraft pocket edition on the IPad and IPhone. it is almost the same exept no crafting and only one type of monster. The full version of Minecraft costs 26 dollars. You can have wiring and pressure plates and buttons and even levers. at night the monsters come out so you have to make a shelter. the problem is, the monsters spawn in dark places. there are spiders and skelotons and mummies and creepers and a whole bunch more. it is very fun. you can make a flat world but that means there is no trees and plants. thankfully, there are villages with villagers and stuff. you don't want to kill the villagers or their protecter who has 10 times the amount of life you do, will kill you.

This is a picture that I took. After that, I used a app called Instagram on the IPad.

Oma and Opa and uncle Mark came for Jonathan's birthday. About a week before he came, he emailed mom saying he had a big bucket of software including a computer and two monitors. When he came it was very late. The next morning uncle Mark gave me the stuff. It was cool! There were even speakers and earphones! 

The computer is pretty fast and it has an app store. I had to use an ethernet cord for it though. I installed lots of apps. He also gave me a really nice camera. Ezra just loves it! Jonathan got as a present a brand new iPad from Grandpa!

I'm going to use it for programming and playing games.

This morning I woke up and I looked at my green bean plant. It was growing flowers! Only a few though. Here are some pictures.

It was so exciting when it came in. At first the package looked pretty big. But when I opened it it was so exciting. Then I found you charge the phone itself. I am writing this post with it. I also used the phone for math. I used a calculater. P.S. mark, how do you put in the battery? I used the charger for the phone.

I'm getting a Android in the mail from uncle mark. the screen is a tiny bit scratched, but it does'nt make a diffrence. also it's got internet connection. he sending with it a battery charger and two batterys (one is extra). I am soooo excited. I... can't... wait. he uploaded a picture on Google+

Me and Gideon had a lot of sandpaper. After a while we forgot about it. Then one day Gideon used some. There are six different ones. The first one is the hardest and most scratchy. it does not smooth it but it does sand away big bumps and makes way for the next one. They get softer and softer until you are at the last one, which is the most softest. you have to work a long time for that one. But now we have two sanding machines to do it. The problem is, we only have the hardest sandpaper for them. That means we have to do the rest by hand. My Mom is going to buy them. we took the sandpaper down to Whiskeytown lake. we made some there without the machines.

We call it the black computer. It ALWAYS pauses a lot. One day Dad said it was probably the CPU. He said CPU tells you how much memory is being used by small programs holding up bigger programs you can see. CPU was way up at a 100%. That's bad. So he quit some of those small programs (you have to be careful not to do the wrong ones or you can break the computer). Once he had Internet Explorer open and he quit one of the programs. Then it said Adobe Flash Player had crashed. But after that, we could play our games without it being paused all the time.