Lesson of 12/3/15

In our last lesson, we started off with a couple of tests on Socrative, an on-line educational quiz service. Both of these tests were fairly easy, although being marked down on a question that didn't make it very clear that it was looking for multiple answers was a bit of an annoyance. Regardless, my scores weren't too shabby, so, yeah.

We also completed a quick test on Algorithms, where I scored 5 marks out of 7. I lost one mark for saying that an algorithm "is a set of instructions that processes an input and produces an output" instead of "a set of instructions that produce a result." Rather petty and trivial, but I've come to expect this level of tedium from the WJEC exam board (OCR was better, imo). The second lost mark was for one of the methods of writing algorithms, where I couldn't think of the right word, so wrote "Bullet Points" instead of "Structured English". Fair enough, though.

We also completed some exam style questions on Spreadsheets. I managed to get one mark overall, possibly two (only out of 5, but still). The first question, about VLOOKUPs, was basically just clunkily phrased. I got one mark for sure, and there might be another one lurking in that body of text, but I don't think it would count. Second one, I falsely identified an IF function as a VLOOKUP. Even though I'm fairly sure you could achieve the same thing with VLOOKUP, but oh well. No marks.

That was about it, really. I hope this blog is as enlightening as you had always hoped.

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