August 26, 2008

Hi everyone. I am no Trey but I am Trey’s awesome sister Kelsey. Feel free to applaude. I don’t care if I spelled Applaude wrong. Well Trey has been lazy and “too busy” to work this out. So until he can get his lazy butt up, I am going to take over. But, since I no absolutely nothing about computers or technology, I am just going to copy it out of a book. I will kind of reword it though .I will make it more fun and kid friendly too. The book is called “Beginning Programming with Java For DUMMIES!” So maybe rent it for yourself. Remember to study up and if you cannot afford it, just come here and study up. Here, we’ll start with a piece of Chapter 1: Revving up.

Everyone has used a computer, right? Type a letter, print it out, and then send it to the one you L U V! If you have an easy access to a computer you have probably surfed the web or as I say it, gone online. You most likely have visited a web page, clicked a link, and have seen another page. It is as simple as 1-2-3, right?

Well it is easy thanks to the little person inside your computer who told it to do so(metaphor). f you just pick up your computer from the computer place and give it no instructions, the computer cannot process words or information and you cannot surf the web. You basically can’t do anything. The only way your computer can work is if you give it instructions.

Now go back in history and pretend you are Mark Twain writing the great American novel, “Tom Sawyer” with Microsoft Word and you have come the end of a line. (Not the end of the sentence but a line.) As you type the next word, your cursor will jump to the next line. What the heck is going on? Well someone wrote a computer program- a set of instructions telling the computer what to do. Another name for a program is code. It isn’t usually a secret code though. Now I am going to try my best to make the diagram look real. It is called Listing 1-1. This is supposed to show you what Microsoft Word’s code might look like.

if (columnNumber > 60) <                                                           wrapToNextLine();                                                         >                                                                                      else <                                                                                      continueSameLine();                                                      >

Hello, English please? This is it in English...

If the column number is greater than 60,                                     then go to next line.                                                        Otherwise (if the column number isn’t greater than 60),                   then stay on the same line.

Somebody had to have written a code like the one in Listing 1-1. This code with millions of others of line codes, make up the program known as Microsoft Word.

What about surfing the web? You can go to the link and click it, say that it’s going directly to Yahoo.com. Behind the scenes someone had to have written a code for it. Basically 1 way or another, it will always be built by a programmer.

I don’t know about you but learning is tough but kind of fun. Keep in tact and things won’t go wrong. I don’t know about you but being someone that surfs all the time could be fun. ;). Thanks for joining me. I hope this info helped. Bye!