An Adventure Into Technology

     Packets travel through a network by “hopping” from your computer, to your internet service provider, and then on through various other hops until the destination is reached. When looking at the data from the ping command I noticed the Google ping had the quickest response time average at 49ms. The Baidu website had and average response time of 149ms while the Spiegel website had and average response time of 295ms. These numbers are consistent with how I thought they would turn out because the Google website is closer to my home location than the other websites. I was surprised to see that between all three websites there was no packet loss. I would have thought that with the connections to the other websites being so far apart that I would have lost at least a small amount of packet data.       After running the “trace route” command the data showed that each website had taken the same number of hops to complete a successful trace. Each website also had a request time out at some

     The app I chose to talk about is Radarscope by DTN. Radarscope is an all-in-one weather app that I have been using for over five years now. I heavily rely on this app to provide me with up-to-date weather radar images while storm chasing when I’m not running radar on my laptop. The app features numerous types of weather data from reflectivity, velocity, digital accumulation, enhanced echo tops and many more. Along with the data filters it allows the user to view data at different tilt angles from the doppler radar which provides a better overall picture of how the storm is developing. The app also allows you to connect to the Spotter Network which tracks other storm chasers and provides you with their contact information. Live storm warnings and weather reports provide a ton of information such as when the report was made, location, speed and direction of storm travel, impacted areas, and much more.       The app costs $9.99 and there are two paid plans available for more features

     Prior to attempting to create a program in Scratch I had a limited amount of experience in programming. I have done some minor programming with Python in the past, but not enough to fully understand it or run lines of code on my own. Initially I was having an issue with getting the characters in the program to do what I fully wanted them to do. The easiest way I have found to overcome this issue was to start small with some of the commands like getting the characters to move from one point to another. I started off with the basic motions and then decided to add more of the details after the main components were in place.       When I first read over the assignment, I thought it was going to be easier than it was. I feel as though this program is a great way to learn how the complexities of programming work on a much simpler scale. When I was browsing around the website, I noticed that other people have created some intricate and complex games. I’m sure if I took the time to unders