ICT system creation report

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SHAZIA YAQUB

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THE ICT PRACTIOTIONER

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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SHAZIA YAQUB

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INTRODUCTION

I have been asked to prepare a personal report that addresses my approach to learning and provides a reflective account of my experiences, of carrying out a series of programming activities. The report that I will be creating is a reflection upon my collective and collaborative activities, working in a group.


WEEK 3        INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING AND VISUAL BASIC

        DIGITAL CLOCK

11th to 17th October

WHAT I HAD TO DO:

We had to interactively design a digital clock program.  The program had to be designed in a way for objects to respond to events.

HOW I CREATED THE PROGRAM  

I used a label to display the system time in, as the requirement was to program objects to respond to events.

I used a label called lblToday because labels are containers for programs-generated messages. They have properties such as name, caption, font etc. I defined my label with the name lblToday so that I could show the correct date at the time at runtime by typing out the instruction lblToday.Caption=Time$.

As the time would not change if I displayed the time on form_load I had to find an object from the tool box which looked like a clock and then I put it onto my form.

I then changed the interval property to 1000, this was to indicate 1000 milliseconds. I also did this for the default event for the time object and then displayed the time in my label.

MY PROBLEMS AND HOW I OVERCAME THEN

Designing a digital clock program using visual basic was a very challenging but interesting task for me as I had never come across using visual basic. At first I found it a bit of a struggle to get used the program and how to use it appropriately. Even though the notes that were given were quite clear and when I read them I thought that creating the program would be easy, however when I put the notes into practice I found it quite hard. The task was quite confusing especially the coding and getting it correct, because if there was even a slight error the program would not run successfully. Another problem I faced whilst designing this program was that when I put the timer onto the form and ran the program the timer would not display correctly. So in order to solve my problems I consulted my group and my tutorial teacher.

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WEEK 4        SWAPPING VALUES / CONVERTING VALUES

18th to 24th October

WHAT I HAD TO DO:

We had to create a program that would read the users input, process it and display the results.  

HOW I CREATED THE PROGRAM:

For this tutorial I used lblrpompt, txttemperature, cmdctof, cmdftoc, and cmdexit. I also used lblresult for the calculated answer, which for an input of 0 degress Centigrade, was of the form: “That is 32 degrees Fahrenheit”.

Cmfctof calculated a conversion into farhenheit and cmdtfoc also calculated a conversion into centigrade.  Both cmfctof and ...

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