An Introduction

Well, this is nice, isn't it? My own blog. It's doubtful anyone will read it other than my poor parents and teachers that I force to drown in a misshapen fog of unplanned words that fight for place as my mind races along somewhere up in the clouds.

Somehow the confusion of language in my mind all gets transferred to my fingers who batter a keyboard on my little Toshiba laptop that is the powerhouse of this whole sordid operation without loosing too much meaning in transit, and from there it's up to the internet to let you view my inconsistent bleatings.

Firstly, however, a quick introduction to and clarification of my nickname. Which I seem to be unable to change. When I was younger I somehow managed to get on the global high score leaderboards for some game or other. I was smart enough to not put down my own name, and not boring enough to enter a dull pseudonym. Instead, I put wowzaboy. It sounds better written down and not said aloud. My being male, amazing, and superb talent for making people say wow (whether in disbelief or anguish is up to you to decide) contributed to the name. Ever since it kinda stuck, and I apparently attempted at making a blog some time ago with the same name and my current email. I tried changing it but apparently that didn't work, and I quite frankly can't be bothered to make a new account. Enjoy readiong a blog written by someone called 'wowzaboy'.

Now on to something more interesting. The purpose of this initial post is to highlight the general point of this blog and its future after its primary directive to get me into A-Level courses is complete. Don't you just love Michael Gove and the English school system? Me neither.

As indicated, this blog is here to get me into A-Levels. That's pretty much it I'm afraid. After a long relaxing period in which I did absolutely bugger all  after my GCSE exams until the proper summer holidays started I got a letter. Inside it was the English equivalent of manure so rich a farmer would sell his children for it. I have to complete 'Bridging Units' and rack up 300 'points' to get into my preferred A-Level courses. Optionally, an additional 200 points would secure me a 'UCAS Recommendation'. Hoorah.

At the time of writing I've trawled through about 7 tasks on MyMaths and written a review on a python programming guide which should net me some nice points, and to my understanding a blog on a specific subject with at least 12 posts should get me a nice 100 points. That's where this CSS graveyard of a blog comes in, as explained below (I like short paragraphs).

For A-Level I intend to take AS Maths, IT, Computer Science, and Physics. Now, maths sucks big style - as if you didn't already know that - but I can't make a blog for it. I can only slave away on MyMaths. Therefore, if I make 36+ posts - 12+ on each subject - I should theoretically gain 300 points. Not only does that get me into A Level, but in conjunction with the tasks I've already completed/will complete it should get me that UCAS recommendation.

<sarcasm> I think at this point my Nana would like me to point out that she totally didn't nag me to do this. </sarcasm>

Being an avid user of the ROBLOX platform (yes the community is full off moron 12yo kids, but then again every 12yo kid is a moron - and at least it gives me a nice player base/target audience) where I play around with GUIs and physics -quite often to create games- I thought that a great way to encompass everything I love, -plus the A-level Bridging Units, would be to wrote a blog focused on the development of a combat flight simulator. I'll probably never finish it, but at least it'll give me something to jabber on about until Tuxford Post 16 agree to let me in.

The physics aspect is focused on the actual flight physics within the game, whilst the computer science aspect will be the coding, and the IT will be focused on the interfaces and data usage. I'll make sure to tag the posts somehow so that you know which subject I'm talking about in case my illiterate mind doesn't quite make it clear.

As for the future of the blog latter to the completion of the bridging units; that'll probably be given over to further development on ROBLOX, various ramblings about something or other sciencey/cool that you may find interesting.

Bon Appetite.


05/09/14 Update: Due to course changes I cannot do AS Computer Science and am instead taking AS and A2 ICT. Therefore I have added an ICT tag to my CompSci posts (and kept the CompSci tag) as they are now dedicated to ICT instead (it's basically the same when it comes to the blog) so that my CompSci posts are still worth something. Class them as ICT posts.