#TC1017

--Originally published at Rapture

First of all thanks for everything Ken.

The course is designed for people who want to learn by their own will, and that you as a student are devoted to spend your free time looking for new ways to learn the mastery topics and you will benefit the most if you are an organized person.

In the class there is a Teacher (Ken Bauer) and he is at all times available (here is his schedule), you can book him for half an hour in that link, anda those 30 minutes can be of great help since he guides you through the topics of the semester and you learn from it. In class he is also there if you need any help and if you feel anxious in talking toward the teacher you can always ask anyone froma the class and this kind of activity is what Ken encourages for us students to make.

In short if you are willing to dedicate extra hours and learn by yourself with a guide (Ken) it will help you out a lot, but if you will not demand yourself to study you will have a hard time getting through the semester.

#WSQ13-Playing with scilab!

--Originally published at Rapture

scilab is Scilab is a free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications this definition was taken from the site itself (Scilab) and as an open source software it has it’s own language where you learn for later use (Scilab for Beginners).

#WSQ12-E

--Originally published at Rapture

In this wsq we had to estimat e and decide how mine decimals, for estimating e you might wanna check out this site Estimating e and Pi and I based my code by studying savhprograming

#WSQ12-E

--Originally published at Rapture

In this wsq we had to estimat e and decide how mine decimals, for estimating e you might wanna check out this site Estimating e and Pi and I based my code by studying savhprograming

#WSQ10-Babylonian Method

--Originally published at Rapture

We were asked to find the square root if a given number but using the Babylonian Method,the previous link takes you to a website that explains detailed after detailed such method. In this wsq I used a while because of the babylonian method requires it.

#WSQ09 Multipart Data and Files

--Originally published at Rapture

For this wsq we have to create a function that receives as parameter the name of a file and the function counts the number of lines and the number of characters in the file which it returns as a single value. In this challenge we have to learn to convert from string to char and here is a link provided in one of fabrizzio’s Post string-to-char for the program to recieve a sentence and then break it down to single letters.

#WSQ08 The dreadfull 196

--Originally published at Rapture

So yeah this is the most challenging wsq, I was lost with this one, and I asked for help and again visited Fabrizzio’s Post for those who think they are lost and think they need help I encourage you to visit Fabrizzio’s Site he has a detailed explanation for each line of code and he also explains each mastery topic that helps a lot if you dont know what are you doing. Well besides learning from Fabrizzios code you also need to know how to integrate a library and ken helped us a lot by uploadin this video. Here is the code:

#WSQ7 Lists!!!

--Originally published at Rapture

In this wsq we started using either vectors or arrays, at first I started using arrays because I found this webpage Programiz but I lost my train of thought and couldn’t get the wsq done, so I asked for help with some friends and I ended up in Fabrizzio’s Post where he used Vectors for all the numbers. Here is the code:

16 Personalities

--Originally published at Rapture

So it according to this test I belong to the five percent of the population, although I do not think it is pretty accurate.

The water Quality

--Originally published at TC1017

Wednsday 22 at 11:00 am I had the meeting with Ken so we could have the interview with the students from Canada!. The interview was pretty good, I had the opportunity to talk with Angelika and in our talk the topic of air contamination came up, and since here in Guadalajara we suffer from it, we also have a water problem, currently one fifth of the State of Jalisco does not count with the necessary clorifiaction process for the water to meet the state demands ( El Informador, 2015), and there is a traveler’s webpage that recomends not to drink the tap water in Guadalajara.

But in Canada there is a whole diferent story for example in the city of Toronto where the water quality is ensured by the Ontario Drinking Water Standards, assures the people that they can fill a cold glass of water and drink it without worrying if it is contaminated or not (City of Toronto, 2017).

This is surprising how students from diferent cities have diferent perceptions of daily life, the canadian students taking for granted the fact that they can drink clean tap water, and the mexican students that have to boil it for them to drink it. And we should act in this problem by trying to find the way to purify the water to be drinkable.

References

City of Toronto. (2017). Drinking water. 27/03/2017, de Toronto Sitio web: http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=e73cfe4eda8ae310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

El informador. (2015). Mala calidad del agua potable en uno de cada cinco municipios. 2017, de El informador Sitio web: http://www.informador.com.mx/jalisco/2015/627990/6/mala-calidad-del-agua-potable-en-uno-de-cada-cinco-municipios.htm