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In today's lesson, we were discussing various pointers and tips for writing out Task Analysis for CG2. These pointers were generated by looking at the common problems found in all the drafts that our teacher had marked so far. Some of these points included; Better formatting of the document (e.g. using a table for listing Assumptions and bullet points for the Aims) Tone of writing (e.g. writing the Aims in future tense and and avoiding writing in the first person) Being more specific with Aims and Limitations Making sure all aspects of the question have been attempted After this discussion, we spent the remainder of the lesson working on our Task Analysis. I spent that time looking through what I'd written so far and making adjustments, as well as starting to split up some of my Aims into smaller points in order to reach the 15 bullet points required.

In today's lesson, we looked into some of the basic functions available in Visual Studio. First of all, we discussed the components of various lines of code, identifying Data Types, Variable Declarations, Expressions, Arithmetical Operators and Selection Statements. We then studies the two main selection statements in detail; If Statements and Case Statements. An IF statement looks like this; If Age >= 18 Then   MsgBox("You are an adult.") Else   MsgBox("You are a child.") End If While a Case Statement goes like this; Select Case Age Case 0 to 17     MsgBox("You are a child.") Case Else   MsgBox("You are an adult.") End Select If statements are more generally used, but Case statements are useful if many possibilities are to be considered, to avoid lengthy If statements. Towards the end of the lesson, we moved on to trying out our own VB programs, performing calculations, such as subtracting the inside area of a circl...