Pokémon Sun and Moon team!

October 31, 2016January 5, 2017 Owen H

18 more days until Pokemon sun and moon are released! In the spirit of Pokemon, Im going to be making a list of the Pokemon that will be on my team in the upcoming games. Just as a warning, this is a list of Pokemon that have been revealed as of now. If other/ better Pokemon are revealed or in the game, I might use them instead. Also this will be my end game team. I will have other Pokemon before I get to catching some of these Pokemon.

1.Incineroar: Fire/dark type
Because i always keep my starter on my team, inciniroar will probably be my ace, or best Pokemon. Also the fire/dark type is very strong together.

2. Wishi-washi: water type.
According to the pokedex, wishi-washi is so strong and intimidating that wild gyrados run away from it.

3. Lurantis (or) tzareena: both grass
Im not entirely sure which grass type I will have on my team. They’re both strong looking and they’re signature moves are both really cool. I guess it depends on which i get first.

4. Nine-tails (alolan form): ice/fairy
Nine-tails is the most elegant Pokemon ever in my opinion. Ice/fairy typing makes it very glass-cannon-y. It can absolutely destroy grass, ground, and dragon types, but gets destroyed by fire and steel types.

5. Kommo-o: dragon/fighting type
This thing is awesome! Dragon/fighting type is crazily offensive, and this pokemon is totally the pseudo legendary of this generation. I think this pokemon is going to be one of my strongest team members.

6. Oricorio( pa’u style): psychic/flying
Up until now, every pokemon on the list has not countered two types. Fighting and poison. Oricorio covers both. I will, however, replace oricorio with my next pokemon on the list.

7. lunala: psychic/ghost
Lunala covers poison just as well as oricorio does, but is completly immune to fighting type attacks. The only problem is that it can get hit by ground type attacks. Also it is very late game, so I will have oricorio until I get lunala.

Yes, I am aware that you can only have 6 Pokémon on a team. So might be switching some of these Pokémon out for others.

Swift Playgrounds 50%

October 28, 2016January 11, 2017 Owen H

For the past while we have be coding using Swift Playgrounds. Swift Playgrounds is a coding app that uses swift coding language. In Swift you write a code that tells your character “byte” where to go and what to do. Each level is slightly more challenging than the last, requiring you to focus and think about what to write and what consequence each command would have on byte.

This is the “across the board” level.

As we completed chapters in swift playgrounds, we wrote reflections on them about how we felt about the chapter. Here are some quotes from mine.
-“Each level was about bugs and debugging, and the final level was my favourite of all. It was my favourite because of how simple, yet complicated it was. We had to get Byte to collect a gem and toggle a switch in the shortest line of code possible using portals.”
-“I found the shortest route on my first try, but it took me a few minuets to think about what would happen when a certain command was told.”

After that came the challenging part. We had to use “loop code” to make byte do the same commands a certain amount of times. The loop itself wasn’t difficult but getting the right code was. I found the trial and error of loop codes to be very confusing at first, and still do as im wrighting this very sentence.

Halfway though ad stuff

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Owen H

These are all draft advertisements I’ve made for our advertisement project. Three are for MEC, one is for my peers to come to my treehouse, and one is advocating earthquake safety. My favourite is the treehouse one, but I like all of them.

Every couple of days we get together and critique each others ads and then change the ad based on how we were critiqued. I really like this way of marking each other because, honestly, its usually a lot easier to understand what people mean when they give us feedback.

After we get our feedback, we take a picture of it.

Making the ads is sometimes hard and sometimes easy. The hardest part is getting or editing some photos, such as the photos in the MEC ads, or geting the white background on the photos in my treehouse ad. For combining the photos into one ad, I used a photo creation app called “Canva“. The only bad part about Canva is that it will sometimes crash and make me login again.