Monitoring interval #2

The second monitoring interval for the fall 15-week term ends Wednesday, October 3rd. The registrar's office will be printing and mailing alert letters later in the week. Students who are irregular in attendance, stopped coming to class altogether, fail assignments, and/or neglect to submit assignments will be reported as such and notified that they are in danger of failing this course.

NOTE: MANY students are in arrears with respect to submitting their deliverables. Half the class has not sent in either of the two labs assigned to date!

Lab assignment #2 - temp1.bas

Problem Description

Input a temperature reading in degrees Fahrenheit and find the corresponding temperature in degrees Celsius. Use the formula

Homework 2 - bmi.bas

Write a program called bmi.bas which will allow users to input their height and weight and which will use those values to calculate their Body Mass Index.

Timestamps

This is a high priority reminder.

I informed the class that I check timestamps on all emails. While reviewing lab assignment submissions, I noted that a student sent me an email with a timestamp right in the middle of our class meeting. This is UNACCEPTABLE.

Use of LOCATE

Also during last week's class, I introduced use of the LOCATE command.

Use of COLOR

Last class, I went over some formatting options for your output. One item I revisited was using COLOR to change the font color in your output window.

Public service announcement

To answer the many emails I have received...

No, there was no homework assigned last week.

Happy National Punctuation Day

Not sure how to use a comma? A semi-colon? An apostrophe? Cruise on over to the National Punctuation Day web site to learn all about our grammatical assistants, the punctuation marks.

Though it won't help you in BASIC.

Happy

Arrgh, matey!

Monitoring interval #1

The first monitoring interval for the fall 15-week term ends Wednesday, September 19th. The registrar's office will be printing and mailing alert letters later in the week. Students who are irregular in attendance, stopped coming to class altogether, fail assignments, and/or neglect to submit assignments will be reported as such and notified that they are in danger of failing this course.

Add/Drop

Tomorrow is the end of the Add/Drop period.

Page reading calculations

From our in class example,

If it takes 1.5 minutes for a student
to read two pages in her textbook,
how long will it take her to finish a
245 page reading assignment?

Code review #1

I have noticed several trends while reviewing the submitted assignments.

Color codes

Here are the codes for the COLOR function. Its syntax is:

COLOR fg, bg

Homework assignment #1 - colorful.bas

Write a program called colorful.bas which will generate the following output in the colors designated:

RED = STOP
ORANGE = CAUTION
GREEN = GO

We remember

Peaceful Patriot Day

Class assignment #1 - resend

Please resend your first class program file, hello.bas,

BUT

instead of sending the file as named, save a copy of it and rename the copy as hello.128.

Password change requirement

On or after August 27, 2012, all students are required to change their password in order to access their MyBrookdale Portal and ANGEL accounts. If you have not changed your password on or after August 27, 2012, please do so at netid.brookdalecc.edu. If you do not remember your password, they can reset it at netid.brookdalecc.edu.

Comment block

The minimal comment block at the top of a program submission should look like this:

' Your name
' Filename: name_of_file.bas
' Description of program (what it does, what assignment it is)
' Versioning information and date

As an example:

Lab assignment #1 - unit prices

Problem Description

Sheldon Shopwise needs to buy detergent. The 48-ounce box costs $2.25 and the economy 5-pound box is $4.10. What is the unit price (price per ounce) for each box?