Oct. 10th 2015

Today was the orientation to the Shodor Apprenticeship program. We took a tour of the building, and learned where we will be learning and working. During the break, we played cards and got to know each other. It turns out that two of my fellow apprentices went to the same school as me last year, and had the same teachers. After the break, we added the public_html file from our terminal, which is the folder where will be putting our programs for Shodor. I was very excited to get the HLD (high level design) document for our website at the end of the day, because I am looking forward to learning HTML and CSS.

Oct. 17th 2015

Today was our first day of learning at Shodor. Our first activity was a logic puzzle about a king who was trying to figure out if one of his coin makers was cheating him. Dr. Panoff showed us a very interesting way to solve it, by taking one coin from the first bag, two from the second, and so on until you had taken a coin from all eight bags. By weighing all of the coins, you can see how many smeezles, the unit of measurement for the coin, are missing. The number of smeezles that were missing, corresponded to the bag that the cheater gave. Dr. Panoff taught us not to believe every piece of information we find, but ask ourselves "how do we know?" Is there any reason to believe what it says?