Blown to Bits Chapter 1 Answers

     a.) Identify the difference between exclusive and rivalrous bits.
Exclusive is only a few people have them and it is hard to keep.
Rivalrous is when you receive them from someone.
     b.) Based on your opinion, can a computer make mistakes, or are they perfect? Justify your answer.
In my opinion computers can't make mistakes because it's just doing what it is told to do and if there are any errors of some kind it's because of the program it is using.

     c.) Draw a Venn diagram regarding the pros and cons of having advanced technology.
Some pros of having advanced technology is that a are very fast at doing what you want them to do. If you want to look up something it can take about 5 seconds. Also it is easier for people to communicate around the world if they have someone not near by.

Some cons of having advanced technology is if you have some personal things that get leaked online, there is nothing you can do about it, it is forever on the internet.

     d.) Summarize Moore's Law and the advancement of processing power.

 Moore's law is an empirical observation of the progress of engineering and challenge engineers to continue their innovation. Processing power has advanced a bunch it used to be able to process 5 things at once now a computer can process a trillion things.

Blown to Bits Chapter 1 Questions

Define the term “bits” where does it occur?

Would you allow location services or providers to determine your location in case of emergency? (Justify your answer)

Justify how our modern technology impact our lives and state an example.

How would you respond, If personal pictures would appear on the internet.

Lesson 1.1.7 Scratch Game Bounceit!

                                                                         Bounceit!

The hardest thing about our game was making the ball bounce off of the paddle and walls off random directions. We eventually did overcome this task by looking at another tutorial that was similar to our game we made. We looked at the code they had for their ball when they would bounce off the paddle and edge and then bounce in a random direction. We then used their code and it made the ball bounce.

Mario and I worked well as a team as we did eventually come to the conclusion of what we wanted to make out of our game bounceit!

I liked the way our project came out. We started with our first version which wasn't smooth when we created it. Then we changed it so you would hit coins instead of squares and added a point system. We added a start menu a game over menu but we don't have a victory menu which was one of our only flaws