Technology--Jason

Has anyone heard of Unity?
Well I recently downloaded it and it is, put simply amazing. Unity is free software available to download from [|unity3d.com]. What unity is, is a 3d game engine, unity uses a mix between a drag and drop user interface and coding using one of the three coding languages of your choice. The three languages that are available are JavaScript, C#, and BOO (a language similar to Python). Although there is a lot of coding to be done, most of the software is visual, you can import models from any of the most popular 3d design applications such as Autodesk Maya and Cheetah 4D. The coding aspect is just for controls and advanced actions such as physics, but thanks to the already made codes that come with the download and the online recourses and references, it should be easy for anyone with a minimal coding background. It is also great for rapid development or prototyping games. This is one amazing application for a simply amazing price, in November Unity Technologies changed the price form $199 to free with the new update from Unity Indie 2.5 to just plain Unity 2.6. The reason they did this was to help hobbyists and teens with aspiring dreams to make video games. To see more click [|here]. This software is simply amazing it took me just a week to learn how to use it and start creating my first game, which is a pretty sweet tank game. Unity comes in a few forms, Unity Pro for $1499, iPhone Basic for $399 (Mac OS X required), iPhone Pro for $1499, and Unity for $0 (Yes, it’s free). I tried it and I love it, has anyone else used it or seen it, what do you think about it, just visit [|unity3d.com].

1/6/10 This Lesson we will leave the topic of HTML. If there are any more advanced people out there who are willing to learn JavaScript then this is for you. The first thing we will learn is the most basic how to display text in JavaScript (JavaScript is in no way the same thing as Java). To write text in JavaScript you use a tag this is what it looks like. code format="javascript"  document.write ("This is text written in JavaScript"); code

We use document.write to tell the browser to display text in this case "This is text written in JavaScript". This is the most basic of JavaScript functions. You can also write tags or tags ( is basically the same thing as except it can contain a larger area, it can also include tags.) inside the parenthesis in after the document.write command like this

document.write (" This is text written in JavaScript ")

Now we will move on to JavaScript variables this may seem like a big jump, but it is not, if you know your math, you understand HTML well, and you know CSS, not that CSS is necessary to know to use JavaScript its just you should learn it first because it is easier. To declare a variable you just tell it what it is, like this code format="javascript"  x=200; y=500; z=300; code

This is what declaring variables looks like, you would usually do this in the head of the document or in an external script. Also JavaScript is case sensitive so "x" and "X" are two different variables. To cause something to happen to a variable you just use something like x=x+100 this would come out to x=300 instead of 200. It might look something like this. code format="javascript"  x=150 y=250 z=400

 x=x+100 document.write(x)

 z=z+y document.write(z)

code This is an example of how to use it in a real document. The document.write(x) would show up as "250" because I told it to write "x" after I added 100 to it. And the document.write(z) would show up as "650" because it added "z" to "y" and then wrote it. This is the first of my posts on JavaScript I will be writing more.

Question:
Should I make a turorial on how to make a form such as this one?media type="custom" key="5048897" If you want to go ahead and learn how to make this just go to media type="custom" key="5014011", It is where I found and learned the script for this and many other very cool things.

Lesson Four:
This lesson will be on links and images. Links and images are relatively easy to make if you are good at remembering seemingly meaningless words. To make a link you go to the section and go to the desired place where you want to put it. Once you are there you make the link. First of all don't be confused, the tag for a link is , but the way you make a link is Example.com. What the webpage displays is just media type="custom" key="5013553", but it will take you to http://www.example.com/. The code for a picture is img border="0" src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg" width="X" height="X"/> you can put any size border you want on the image as long as it is not negative, for src=" you just put your image's url, or web address, and then the set the with and hight to the width and height of the picture, so it will not be distorted. and then it will just look like this: This concludes lesson four.

Lesson three:
This lesson will be a little bit shorter, this lesson is on how to make a table or organized data. you first start with your standard code with the and and tags, then when you get to the you start forming your chart. The first thing you do is start by declaring a table by using the  tag. Now to see what the whole thing looks like:

code format="html4strict"  This is the title of the webpage code When your are making your page get used to putting the and tags in, it will help you a lot in the future. Also if you want to leave a cell empty you must put in it " " don't forget the semi-colon at the end. Now to see what our char will look like. media type="custom" key="5012957" This concludes lesson 3.

Okay now for lesson two, formatting text and a few other cool things. So we start off with our basic HTML setup that I made on my last post: code This is the title of the website This is the first heading of the website This is the main text of the website code But now we add a few things. Here is where the basics of formatting text comes in, say you want to make the word "heading" bold in the first heading on of the website, all you would have to do is add  before the word and  after it. Now that wasn't too hard, was it? Ok now say you wanted to italicize the word "website" all you would have to do then is to use the  and  tags around the word and it will become italicized. Next is the if you want superscript or subscript text. Superscript is a word that is slightly more elevated than the surrounding text, for example and exponent on a number is superscript. The way you make a word superscript is you put the before it and after it. A subscript is just a word that is slightly lower than the rest of the words. To make a subscript all you have to do is add a and around the word. Now if you wanted to get technical you could use the and tags to make something "strong" or bolded. Next you could use the and tags to make "emphasized" or italicized. Next if you wanted to put in a excerpt of a computer code such as the one above you can use the  tags, this will make it look like the fornt used for coding. And lastly if you wanted to cite your sources for something and wanted a different font to do it in you could use the and tags. Remember everything you want to go in the main body of the website will be between the and tags. Ok now to put it all together this is what it would look like: code format="html4strict" This is the title of the webpage This is bolded text. This is italicized text. This is superscript. This is subscript. This is strong text. This is emphasized text. This is "cited" text. It is not really cited, its just to show the font.

code **Ok this is what it should look like if you did it right. **

And a special thanks to media type="custom" key="4997537" because they have a html previewer buit into their page, so you can see what your script would look like on the internet.

Ok for future reference HTML stands for hyper-text-markup-language, basically HTML is what eh world wide web runs on. The world wide web reads HTML and spits out a visual image, that is what we see, and we get so used to seein it we forget how it works. Well basically it works through tags, the **__basic__** (Note: very basic) format is as follows:

code This is the title of the website This is the first heading of the website This is the main text of the website code Lesson one: Ok now let’s break this code down. The " " just declares that you are writhing in the HTML language we will learn what to actually put there in place of it later but this will work for now, but it is technically incorrect. Also do not forget to add a corresponding " " at the end of your code too, the slash before the "html" is just declaring that you want to end the tag. Next you would see " " and then below it " " this is declaring that you want this to appear at the top of your web browser as the page name, as you can see mine says "This is the title of the website". Now underneath the title for my website I have " " and then " " these are just to close off the tags like I mentioned earlier. Now you see " " this declares that I want this to be displayed on the actual webpage, so now anything I put in next will be displayed there. The row below " " is now " " this is the first header, or the biggest title on the webpage or the biggest text. The header tags are actually numerical order " " is just the first and biggest header, the next such as and get smaller as you go, but they only go up to which is not a very big header. Remember at the end of any tag you must have a corresponding ending e.g." " to declare that you want to end the tag. After the " " you see the plain text "This is the body of the website" this is just the plain text that is displayed on the website. Below you see " " which ends the segment of the website that you can see, and then which ends the script. A special thanks to media type="custom" key="5019367" and media type="custom" key="4997537" because I never could have learned HTML without them. I will have more coming later on formatting text. Nice work, Jason; can you show us what your sample would look like on a website? Mrs. Allen Now to see what it looks like put together in a website. This was image was made in csshtmltutorials.com through their compiler built right into their page to help you learn. Once you see it in a website it looks like this. I think you have not received comments because everyone has been so focused on getting their own pages going. We will be doing more peer editing in class on Wed/Thurs...you'll see some comments come in...thanks for all of good thinking and hard work! Ms. Darga A comment box? Awesome! I never noticed that. Wow.

Go to the end of your work on your wiki page, and type today's date. Please number your responses to the items below and write your responses in complete sentences. It is not necessary to rewrite the questions--simply restate the gist of it as you begin your response. Make sure to choose a unique color for your new edits. Please choose a "readable" color (not yellow!) and do not highlight the text.**
 * Assignment: Complete the activities below and record your answers/thoughts on your Wiki page.

1. Analyze the contents of the wordle made from all of the posts in your category. Remember that this includes all the posts on your topic...not just your own. What are the common ideas that are being discussed and debated? What trends do you see?

Title, technology, new, wireless, tables, touch, movies, text

2. Go to Wordle and make a word cloud of just YOUR posts. To do this, open a new wordle space and then copy and paste all of the text from your posts into the space. Create the word cloud.



3. Compare the two. What is similar? What is different?

Ha ha mine has td, which stands for table data, in my html scripting. Mine also has lots of ipod, table, website, like, touch, and mobil.

4. Right before break, your assignment was to search the internet for blogs about your topic. Include the links to the blogs you found as the response to this question. Be sure to give the title of the blogs as well.

guardian.co.uk []

5. Compare your ideas to the those in the blogs that you found. What is similar? What is different?

We both blog about new technology trends, but on mine there are some tutorials on HTML too.

6. Begin to brainstorm about the topic of your next post. What research do you need to do? Where will you find the info that you need?

I might make a few more posts on HTML or maybe CSS, later I might do javascript too.

This was very helpful! thanks for the html lessons. and also i wants your thoughts on the new google phone thing thanks for your help!