This week, we had another two productive Computer Science classes.
To start with, Mr. Pete taught us how to set up a blog with WordPress. It was quite challenging at first, but after becoming more familiar with the system and the layout of the website, I found that WordPress is actually fairly intuitive. We learned up how to set up our own blog website with a proper home page and different reflections under a “Pre-IB Computer Science” category.
Also, Mr. Pete has his own website “peteict.com”. We registered on it and entered our own personal student information. By registering our student information, we made it a lot more convenient for Mr. Pete to give and receive assignments from students and grade them.
Finally, we watched video clips on “What is a computer” and “Who invented the computer”. After watching the video, we discussed what we learned, which was mainly some tidbits about the history of the computer.
I learned a lot of content from this week’s Computer Science class. The question of “what is a computer” initially seems quite simple. After all, there are computers all around us, especially now that we’ve entered a digital age. However, when you really ponder the question, it’s actually quite difficult. We seem to know a computer when we see one, but defining what is a computer is a whole another story. Eventually, a general consensus arose. A computer is an electronic device that can receive input, process, and then display the output for the user. I also learned a lot about the computer and how there were a lot of people who contributed to its creation and its transformation into what it is today. Also of note, I believe that learning how to create a clean format for a blog website was very helpful. Now, I can create a proper blog post and express my opinion online.
A snapshot of my blog post layout. A bit simple, but that’s because there isn’t much content (yet).
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