For the second week of class, Andrew had us build our very own websites using HTML. Fortunately for me, I have made many websites before and had the experience and knowledge to just quickly whip up a small fun little website about sloths! After class, I actually have a huge huge 5 hour break so I just quickly went over to the library and did the assignment on one of the computers which had notepad++ on it. I've never used notepad++ before, I usually use atom or sublime text editor but using notepad++ was very simplistic and minimal which was appreciated. I did a website on sloth facts because I could use all different elements in the website! I could use headers, paragraphs, captions, images, and even lists and links. This assignment wasn't very hard but it was fun dabbling in html a bit since I don't really focus on html a lot.
Since I can't host the site anywhere, I'm just going to post the code here!
<html>
<head>
<title>Sloth Facts</title>
</head>
<body><center>
<h1>Welcome to my virtual life sample website.</h1>
<h2>This website is dedicated to the Sloth and all of the greatness and glory that they serve.</h2>
<img src="http://www.animalfactguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sloth4_full.jpg"></img>
<h5>A brown three-toed sloth smiling for the camera!</h5>
</center>
<ul>
<li>Sloths are a medium-sized mammal. There are two types of sloth the two-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, they are classified into six different species.</li>
<li>A sloth's body is usually 50 to 60 cm long. Skeletons of now extinct species of sloth suggest some varieties used to be as large as elephants.</li>
<li>It used to be thought sloths slept for 15 to 20 hours a day. However, its now believed they only sleep around 10 hours a day.</li>
<li>Sloths usually only leave the tree they live in to go to the toilet once a week on the ground. This is when they are most vulnerable to being attacked by their main predators such as jaguars, the harpy eagle and snakes.</li>
<li>The sloth has very long, sharp, and strong claws that they use to hold on to tree branches. The claws are also their only natural defense against predators.</li>
</ul>
<center>
<h2>For more facts about Sloths, visit <a href="http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/sloth.html">Sciencekids.co.nz</a></h2>
</body>
</html>
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Similarities of e-mail and real mail service
Email is basically a different form of the same means of delivering a message to someone else. The methods are in fact nearly identical.
The process for real life mail is as follows:
The mail is put into the mailbox where the local mailman picks it up and brings it to the local post office. This is where it is sorted and eventually sent off to the general area of the recipient marked by the address. Here, it is once again sorted and eventually delivered to the address destination.
In the same way the process for emails is as follows:
The Email is written in your personal inbox (mailbox) and when it is sent, it is sent to various servers (sorting) and eventually reaches it's destination marked by the email address (physical address).
So in conclusion, just like how mail delivery doesn't just deliver straight from the origin to the destination, an email works the same way.
What I hope to get out of this class...
As a student majoring in computer science at UWT, I innately had an interest in technology as well as the internet. Taking part in this class would have given me the opportunity to learn more about networks, the internet/world wide web, as well as the history of the technology that has become so vastly used today. To be honest, I actually joined the class not only because of that interest but more so because of required credits as many others probably have as well. I needed 3 more credits to graduate and this class seemed relatively interesting enough for me to join. To my surprise, Fry seems very knowledgeable, versed, and passionate about the topic as well as the class in general. This really sparked my interest and now I hope to learn a lot this quarter through him. Anyways, as for what I hope to get out of this class is a couple of things.
1. To learn more about technology and the networking side of it (which isn't really focused on too much in the cs department so this class was a good opportunity for me to learn more about the subject)
2. To learn about what it means to be an entrepreneur and how to think like one. This isn't really even a specific focus in this class, but Fry who is an entrepreneur and someone who helps others succeed in business seems to have knowledge about that area and I hope to one day become an entrepreneur myself.
3. To learn about social communication. I'm pretty introverted and have a hard time communicating myself to others and hearing Andrew talk about stories and light up makes me want to learn to be more like that.
That's the end of my first blog post. Hope to learn a lot this quarter.
-Brendan
1. To learn more about technology and the networking side of it (which isn't really focused on too much in the cs department so this class was a good opportunity for me to learn more about the subject)
2. To learn about what it means to be an entrepreneur and how to think like one. This isn't really even a specific focus in this class, but Fry who is an entrepreneur and someone who helps others succeed in business seems to have knowledge about that area and I hope to one day become an entrepreneur myself.
3. To learn about social communication. I'm pretty introverted and have a hard time communicating myself to others and hearing Andrew talk about stories and light up makes me want to learn to be more like that.
That's the end of my first blog post. Hope to learn a lot this quarter.
-Brendan
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