Computer Science

Computer Science is a course taught by Ms. Taricco that teaches programming. Some students are in advanced CS which allows them to do long term projects within the advanced group, however I am in the normal group. In the beginning of the year, we learned CSS and HTML by creating these websites that you are viewing right now. Then we moved into Java and learned the basics through different labs, and in the future we will make “apps for good” projects in groups. We all participate in the ACSL (American Computer Science League) competitions which test our knowledge.

Line Art

The goal of the line art lab was to use the Graphics class in Java to make the picture shown below using only straight line segments. I made two with one residing inside of the larger one. I also added an artistic flare and made the color randomly change for each line drawn.

A picture of the line art program after it has run

Federal Text Rate

In this assignment we had to calculate the taxes different people will pay based on marriage status and income in Java. I had to take into account the many different income brackets and run math to find the taxes.