Week 16- 12/6 and 12/8

Last Week of Classes!!

During our last week of class, we played around with a program called scratch. Scratch is a free program that allows the user to create animations. Learning to use it was really easy and fun. Everything is set up very organized so it is not hard at all to make an animation and is very user-friendly. We also finished up our websites and the animations we were working on the week before.

It is really hard to believe that I am almost done with my first semester of college. I really enjoyed being in Dissecting the Internet. I loved learning about the different topics and the discussions were always interesting.

Week 15- 11/29 and 12/1

I found this weeks classes very fun! We learned the basics of creating a website using xhtml and then applied them to our own webpages.  xhtml is the language that tells the webpage how to display the information. We learned how to change the colors, display a picture, add a link, and create tables. We also learned how to create animations which were a lot of fun to do. I made an animation of a person dancing. When I have more time, I would like to improve my animation, include face expressions, and make it more interesting. My brother, who is going to University of Pittsburgh, also had to create webpages for one of his classes. They used a similar program. He showed me all the different things he did with his site. I found it very interesting that there is so much variety people can do with websites by only knowing simple codes.

Week 14- 11/22

For the week of Nov. 22, we only had one class because of Thanksgiving Break!! During this class Michael Barry gave his perspectives on how the different branches and departments of government view and act in terms of cyberspace. Michael Barry served in the Marine Corps Reserve and is currently an analyst for Irregular Warfare. He also oversaw the implementation of the National Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations. The perspectives that he gave us were formed from his own observations. The different perspectives and viewpoints were interesting, but also really confusing to follow.