Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Cracking the Code



This week at KMS GT classes have started coding, after sitting through a couple class periods trying to code I've learned that there is many jobs that you need to know coding to get the job, or be good at you job.  I think it is pretty important to know coding, especially in todays world where we all rely on technology so much. We use our phones to find information everyday, we use washers and dryers to clean our clothes, we use lights to see everything around us, we use car keys, every single one of these things has code in it to know what you want it to do.  With all these things surrounding us that have code, don't you think it's important to know how to code?  The other reason I have is a lot of jobs need software designers and computer programers, a lot of these spots go "unfilled" because not many people know how to code. 

The first time I coded was in third grade when I was in the schools robotics team.  We had to program the robots to do the missions we wanted them to do.  It was pretty difficult to get it exact, the perfect amount of rotations of the wheels, which side wheel to turn so that it would turn the direction you want it to.  In robotics, we never really called it code, the first time I did it calling it code was in my seventh grade science class.  When I did it in science I never really understood what i was doing, because it wasn't the same thing I was used to.  Even though I didn't understood what I was doing I still thought it was a lot easier.


If I could design any program or game, I would probably design a program where you can take a picture of a textbook or any information you need and it all automatically goes to your brain.  Like photographic memory! The phone or tablet you use some how connects to your brain like a Bluetooth, I don't know if this is actually possible, but let's be honest that would be the coolest thing in the world.  I know you are all thinking, Tessa there's this thing called studying, but let's be real no one can remember everything in the textbooks!