Introduction to the programming environment

After two weeks of long drawn out theory we finally got round to starting the one thing that most people dream of doing, programming! I make it sound really excited when I put it like that but in all honesty i must have written at most like 4 lines of code max. It was really simple stuff but boy was it fun. I guess the whole idea of today's lesson was to look at the very very basics just to get us started.
The programming language that we are going to be using is Python so all we really did today was look at making a simple calculator that could do the basic adding, subtracting, times and divide. We managed to step into the region of powers as well just to mix things up a little.
we spent about an hour actually doing this and the other two hours watching videos of people explain things but i lost interest with that at the point where it sounded like they were eating the microphone. other than the boring videos i would really say that todays lesson 'Introduction to the programming environment' was a success, it kept me interested in the course and i definitely want to do more of this and explore different programming languages eventually.
Here is the level of complexity of todays programming (not very complex haha)
firstnumber = int(input("Enter a number between 1 and 100")
secondnumber = int(input("Enter another number between 1 and 100")
print("firstnumber + secondnumber =", firstnumber+secondnumber)

These three lines of code was a very basic calculator and something that allowed us to add two different numbers together and give us the answer, after that we just copied and pasted the three lines and then switched out the symbols and there you go. That was my very productive three hours in Alevel computing today...
thanks for reading :)
this is the sort of thing that i will be posting on my blog, it helps me get the things i learn in the lessons to stick into my head :) hope you enjoy listening to it :)

Introduction!

Hey there. My name is Luke, for people that don't know me i am really poopy at being formal or writing things that make real sense. It probably doesn't help matter that I'm laying here at twenty past one in the morning bored out of my mind on a school night feeling a little sleep deprived. Your probably thinking it but no im not like a 13 year old kid being a 'badass' and staying up after hours, I'm actually 17 and go to sixth form. To be quite honest i should be getting some shuteye, i don't really have a particularly exciting day ahead of me tomorrow, i mean 3 solid hours of computing isn't really something that hits you as being fun odds that i fall asleep mid way through the day are pretty high I'm guessing.

So more about me, I'm not usually the type to go on and on about myself but i guess for my first post on this blog i should probably introduce myself to anyone who reads this. Im going to keep this as short as i can without waffling too much and sending you all into a depression. As i said before I'm 17 and I'm in my second year of sixth form. For those of you who are wondering i go to a post 16 centre in Worksop. Last year i started out studying Maths, Business Studies, Media, and ICT. Without getting into too much detail lets just say i only passed 50% of the courses i started off with. This blog is most likely going to spiral off into my life at sixth form and postings of different art work that i do in my courses to see what you guys think and get your feedback. When i leave sixth form next summer I'm kinda hoping that some uni out there will take me on, fingers crossed they will look past my failures and see how much of a shining success i am at the other subjects.

Well that was a pretty brief overview of my shitty life at sixth form, do me a favour and feel sorry for me, somebody has too haha. There's going to be more random posts by me in the near future most likely about my life at sixth form and possibly the things i get up to in my own time.

peace out viewers and fellow bloggers