Assignment 8

Learning Basics of JavaScript Programming (Assignment 7)

Columbia University

Columbia University 

Columbia University campus

I would like to go to columbia university because it's a IVY League ant just because that it gives the students a lot of prestige. Columbia is ranked number 3 in the best graduate schools for architecture. another reason that i want to go there is because its also ranked number 3 in the best design schools. im really interested in architecture and all that is related with art or design.

Columbia University is in New York City 

A collage degree is importan for me because in the furute i want to be an architect and i would not be able to work without a title.

Coliseum, ancient and historically important architecture  

Columbia University 

" In lumine tuo idebimus lumen "

SOCIAL MEDIA

Assignment 3

1. What does the video say about how media influence works on individual people?

• with media doing works on your own is faster that it was before. with the computer, smart phones, and internet we can accsess to information way easier. young people don't need to look in books as much as our suscesors did.

2. What is your favorite fact pointed out in the video? Explain why this fact is important or interesting to you?

• that a social web page called facebook has more user names and people sing it that some countries in the five continents. how pople from all over the world have the need to talk to people that are far from them but they don't socialice as much with people that are around them.

3. How is multimedia effecting our daily lives? Do you think there such a thing as "too much media" in our lives?

• i use media to do my homeworks every day and i use at least 4 hours a day on my phone playing games, listening to music, talking with friends, and watching videos.

Assignment 2

1. What media is used in my everyday life?

I use my phone to play games and to get in social networks. I also use my computer to do my homework and to download music for my ipod.

2. In what ways have I used multimedia for a class assignment before? 

I use it in every class to do the assignments. I use the computer to get on line and to look for things or to get in different web pages.

3. Explain how the World Wide Web is considered multimedia.

because through the www we can look for images, music, and text. with the www we can do many assignments at the same time. 

4. What is the difference between time-based media and static-media? Give examples of each.

STATIC & TIME-BASED MEDIA

There is a fundamental distinction between timebased

and static media: time-based media exhibit

change over time; static media do not.

Video, animation and sound are time-based

media.

Still images and text are usually considered to be

static media.

Each medium has its own characteristics, leading

to distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

Always choose the most appropriate medium for

your purpose.

 

5. Insert a video (into your blog) that discusses/shows/involves multimedia you are interested in. Now answer the following questions after you insert the video. How is this multimedia? Why does this interest you?

Define the following terms by researching for answers on the World Wide Web. 

6. Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation,games and rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.
7. Programming Languages

An artificial language used to write instructions that can be translated into machine language and then executed by a computer.
8. Scripting Language (program)

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an application or system program.9. Interactivity

allowing or relating to continuous two-way transfer of information between a user and the central point of a communication system, such as a computer or television
10. Pixel

a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed