Sisco Inferno

I currently take a Visual Basic class at my high school. The teacher is Ms. Schmoyer. We are assigned various programming assignments, and I have decided to put them here for all to see. These are the exe files, if you would like to view the coding simply contact me. I don’t put the coding here because then it would be to easy for my classmates or future people taking the class to cheat. That said, I would gladly help anyone with any problems. Also, these are exe’s and some hosts don’t allow them. The one I’m currently using isn’t the best, so if you know of a free way I could host the exe’s, I’d greatly appreciate it if you informed me.

I have here the word doc from Ms. Schmoyer assigning the assignment followed by my exe at multiple locations. They are listed in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top.

PA CD- word doc, exe, mirror 1, this is the latest one.

PA Final Exam- word doc, exe, mirror 1. With this one I included the extra credit features of the background color fading back and forth between black and white and your average bouncing around the screen.

MathPrograms- doc, exe, mirror 1. With this one I included a password screen with 64 exit buttons. The catch is that only one of them works and it is randomly determined which, so it could take you a while to find it. There are also other, numerous features.

Tickets- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I have a Swedish stop sign pop up whenever you hit calculate and I give the user options as to how they want the numbers to be rounded.

PA Triangle- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I added a large internet panel. This the first program in which I put links to the internet.

PA Quadrant- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I added capabilities for graphing linear equations.

PA Pet Clinic- doc, exe, mirror 1. This one was pretty bland.

PA#7 Paycheck- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one I have a wonderful welcome screen. When the program is run, all the objects are scrambled across an extra large form. Holding down Alt + i makes the background color rapidly change, holding down Alt + 0 makes the objects rescramble over and over repeatedly and holding down Alt + p makes both happen at once!

PA#6 Paint- doc, exe, mirror 1. In this one the user can toggle between enter the input in feet or feet and inches. They can also select a background color from a dropdown box, input the hex values for a color, or get a random color at the touch of a button.

PA#5 Deli- doc, exe, mirror 1. I had the chef give you comments based on what kind of sandwich you ordered. Also, when you click the picture of a sandwich, it says that it is a sandwich.

I’ll put more up later. Side note, either exe link and the mirror link should work. For example, the exe link doesn’t work at my school but the mirror 1 does, and at my house the exe link does and the mirror 1 doesn’t. (WINDOWS HOSTING)

Recently I downloaded and swithed to using Gaim. After using it for a few days, I have found it superior to Aim. One of my favorite features, if not my favorite feature, is that you can have more than one conversation in one window. It does this by using tabs. Because of this feature I have thought of Gaim as the Firefox of IM clients. Once I started using the tabbed browsing of Firefox, non-tabbed browsing seems so unnatural. I don’t think I am quite there yet with IM’ing, though it is quite a convience to have it all in one window.

Another fine feature is what Gaim doesn’t have, ads. As Gaim is open source and Aim is not, there is no company behind it collecting money from your usage. Also, I look forward to liking the logging feature. If you enable it, it is disabled by default, then you can have your every conversation logged for future reference! Jake was telling me that he has every conversation that we ever had logged. This feature could come in handy sometime. A major feature is that you can seemlessly talk to people on different protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and a slew of other ones. Without a multi-protocol client you would need to have an IM client up and running for each protocol you have a friend on.

Gaim, get it.

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Tags: Gaim, open source, Aim, MSN, Yahoo, Brian Sisco

Note to self: Grok. Someone in Ms. Schmoyer’s room showed it to Anthony and I saw it too. It has a unique way of presenting search results.

According to dictionary.com

grok ( P ) Pronunciation Key (grk)
tr.v. Slang grok·ked, grok·king, groks
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.

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Tags: Grokker, Grok, Ms. Schmoyer, Anthony, Brian Sisco

Sisco Inferno Exclusive!
This won’t be found on The Rest of Sisco-Land!
I was working on modifying the Mars picture on the top here using Paint Shop Pro 8 when I had a Gahh! moment.

Note, I have never seen Gahh! in written form, I only heard it in English class and not from the teacher but from a few of the students. I shall go with the spelling Gahh! for Gahh! as it seems right. As for those who are not familiar with the usage of Gahh!, it is an interjection used one is suprised by something undesirable, such as discovering that the English test has a backside.

I had this Gahh! moment because I was using the close source PSP when I could be using the open source GIMP. I have been using PSP for a while, at first because it had its Animation Shop, which I used to make that animated button which you may see on the Unreality. Then I continued using it because it is what I had and I found some useful features. But GIMP most likely has just as many features, if not more. I will never know until I try, which is now.

Update!
I successfully used GIMP to change the picture as you can see. I took out the extra text, replacing it with “The Gimp” and “Life on Mars”. I also added some greenage for life and made the whole thing more red. Get GIMP!

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Tags: GIMP, Gahh!, Paint Shop Pro 8, Paint Shop Pro, Mars, Brian Sisco