Semester #1 is (almost) complete

Overall, I had great experience with computer programming in the first semester. I learned a lot of general information about how computers work, and I experiment with a few basic, easy programming languages that should help in the future with more complicated ones. And this is what I had hoped for. I chose computer programming instead of ap computer science because I didn't want an extremely rigorous class added onto my already semi-rigorous schedule. I've always been interested in computers, and fascinated by the way that they work. I guess its a rather abstract concept to wrap my mind around, that each tiny piece of data is created by a tiny, physical transistor packed to together and programmed to make a working, complicated machine. Now that I have a grasp over the basics, I would like to take programming to a higher level in the next semester, you know, to a place beyond the confined island of Jeroo, and the intuitive blocks of scratch. Since we are currently working with Jeroo, it would probably be best if we continued straight into python, and then maybe move onto java or something later. After recently building my own computer (after a visit to fry's with my uncle), I think it would cool if future computer programming classes could build a class computer in order to get a better look at it. I know the hands-on experience really helped me understand how everything fit together.

-zk : out

the end

Moore's law states that the number of transistors that can be placed on a circuit is doubled every two years. While this law has matched the trend for more than half a century, and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. But shouldn't there be a stopping point? I mean, as far as we know, something can only exist on a finitely small scale, so at some point, the trend of transistor density should converge at some point. Well, I'm sure people living a half century ago thought the same thing. and didn't expect for the law to make it this far. If it does ever converge, I think we might even have quantum computing, or something like that (I'm really sure).

-zk :out