Tag Archives: Coding

TED like Talks

Have you ever watched a TED talk? In our language arts class we all researched, wrote, and presented a TED like talk about something we are passionate about. My topic was neural networks. First, I researched my topic. I used Google and I also talked with my parents, who had a rough understanding of the topic. Then, I began creating a slideshow for my talk. I didn’t have a script to base my slideshow off of. I actually liked this better than writing a script first because a slideshow gave me a general idea of what I wanted to talk about. Once I had a slideshow, it was very easy to write a script to go along with it. My slideshow was mostly pictures and very few words. I think this helped my audience pay more attention to my voice. All in all, this experience has really helped me to develop my public speaking skills and has helped me share my knowledge with my peers. 

Programming Languages

Have you ever wondered how your computer does all of the things that it does? How do the games that you play on it work? The answer is programming languages! These are the languages that you use to speak to computers! Like in the real world, computer languages are very diverse! In this post, I’ll be discussing three different programming languages.

BASIC

This was an early programming language developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. BASIC stands for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. As the name implies, BASIC was designed to be a very easy language to learn. At the time, most computer languages were in numbers, meaning that you had to memorize lots of 1’s and 0’s if you wanted to know how to write a computer program. In BASIC, the language was much more like English, which made the commands a lot easier to memorize. BASIC is, overall, an easy and popular language that is still used today!

C++

Made by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the language C, C++ is generally considered to be the best programming language for creating large scale applications. This means that it is the best option for if you want to create something that can handle high volumes of data without affecting the quality of the application. However, C++ is considered one of the hardest programming languages to learn. This is because of its complicated syntax, or set of rules. Although C++ may be hard to learn, it is a versatile language that is in high demand, which, in my opinion, makes it worth learning. 

Python

As a high level language developed by Guido van Rossum, Python is a simple language to learn. Part of the reason that it’s easy to learn is the fact that its syntax is very similar to English. This makes it very straightforward to read and understand. Despite being undemanding to learn, Python is a very powerful language that can be used to create websites and collect data analysis. Python also has a massive amount of libraries. Importing a library allows you to call functions that other people have already made, so that you don’t have to spend time making them again. Python is a great first language and is also immensely popular.

So there you have it! In this blog post, I talked about three popular programming languages. I hope you enjoyed reading it and that it might have been a bit useful to you! Until next time, EAT MORE CHICKEN!