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Aug. 12th 2015
Today, we continued working on make-up work. I am most proud of finishing my general store as well as its documentation. I will review it as soon as possible, but I must also get started on my Javascript model. I hope that I will finish everything by Friday in time to present. Phil helped me alot by debugging my general store code.
Aug. 11th 2015
Today, we continued working on make-up work. I am most proud of coding most of my admin page for my general store as well as making the stock go down when someone purchases something. All that is left for my general store is my admin page and documentation of the coding. Hopefully, that means I can start on my Javascript project from Jack Shade's HLD and everything will be finished by Friday.
Aug. 10th 2015
Today, we started the last week of make-up work. I am most proud of finishing my order history page. Now I just have to finish the admin page and make the stock go down when users buy items. Vincent helped me plan my admin page.
Aug. 7th 2015
Today, I worked from home and continued finishing up the projects from Block 1. I am most proud of finishing my responsive website as well as my alternate website style. Now all I have to do is finish my model, general store, and documentation of the store. I hope I will be able to make the model in Javascript; I want to make it in Javascript because nobody made theirs in Javascript and I think it is easier than Agentsheets.
Aug. 5th 2015
Today, we kept working on projects we missed in blocks we did not attend. I am most proud of finishing a couple of my Inkscape projects from Block 1, but at the same time, I am frustrated that some of the other Inkscape projects are taking too much time. I hope I can finish the graphics by the end of the week. Phil helped me revise my HLD so I could start on the model.
Aug. 4th 2015
Today, we continued working on projects we missed in blocks we could not attend. I am most proud of completing the written HLD for Block 1. I hope that I can finish the Agentsheets model from someone else's HLD with the same speed or faster. I hope I can finish the rest of the material for the summer semester and present it by next Friday. Ojas, Rohin, Jack Shade, and Phil helped answer any questions I had about writing the HLD.
Aug. 3rd 2015
Today, we started working on projects we missed in blocks we could not attend. I am most proud of helping the workshop students learn about algorithms. I hope that I can learn how to use Gimp and/or Inkscape well for those projects.
July 31st 2015
Today, we worked on various projects that need to be finished. I am most proud of updating my calender php program. I hope that I will be able to finish my general store by next week. I have been following tutorials online, though I will ask for help soon.
July 30th 2015
Today, we learned about circuits. I am most proud of putting together my circuit and understanding how it works. I hope that I will learn the material from Block 1 quickly. My fellow apprentices have helped me learn all the other programming techniques, so I should not worry too much.
July 29th 2015
Today, we learned about AJAX. I am most proud of completing the mini AJAX project Miguel assigned for us. I hope that I can learn how to use AJAX to create something neat. I helped my engineering group record the results of dropping a marble down a ramp at different heights.
July 28th 2015
Today, we learned about jQuery. I am most proud of coming up with a design for my new website. I may use jQuery as a part of it. My goal is to create an aesthetic website that is made with all of the programming concepts I learned during my apprenticeship at Shodor. Ishaan helped me finish the jQuery to do list project.
July 27th 2015
Today, we began learning about Engineering Concepts. I am most proud of creating the most balanced bridge of our groups with Ojas. I heard about learning to make apps for the Iphone with Phil and Amalan. I have a social media website and app that I want to design so I hope Phil and Amalan can help me get started. Vincent helped me work on my general store.
July 24th 2015
Today, we finished our Javascript projects. I am most proud of working with Ishaan to debug my Javascript program. In the morning the program had several major issues and we weren't making any progress, but in the afternoon we were able to pick it up and finish it. I hope next week we can finish all our other projects. Ishaan helped my group and I get through a tough situation.
July 23rd 2015
Today, we started finishing up our Javascript projects. I am most proud of my group for picking up the pace. Hopefully, we will have the program working by tomorrow. I also want to see if I can program the Far Far Away model that Vincent and his group were working on.
July 22nd 2015
Today, we continued wrestling with our Javascript projects. I am most proud of finishing almost all the code for the program and helping my group get the pseudocode approved . I also scaled my work pace and unfortunately it is the complete opposite of last week. I really hope that my group will be able to understand the program and finish on time.
July 21st 2015
Today, we continued working on our Javascript projects. I am most proud of finishing a lot of code for the program. However, I wish I could scale my work pace right now; some of the code I am working with is tricky. Other than that, my group and I are helping each other through.
July 20th 2015
Today, we began working on our summer group Javascript projects. I am most proud of finishing the assigned part of the Javascript project relatively fast as well as being the first to debug Keith's dice statistic Javascript program. It looks like I am keeping the same pace as the end of last week so, I hope I can keep it for the rest of this week. Aneesha helped me work on our Javascript program and I helped several people with debugging Keith's dice stat JS program inculding Vincent, Ojas, and Anup.
July 17th 2015
Today, we worked more on our general stores. I am most proud of finishing the main code of my general storefront and cart as well as completing the customer login page. Now all I need is to figure out how to code the quantity variable of products, some customer features, and the admin page. Phil helped me debug most of my general store code.
July 16th 2015
Today, we further developed our general stores. I am most proud of setting up my general storefront and cart. Now I need to make the quantity of items go down when people purchase them, create a customer login page, and a couple other features for logged in customers. I helped Herjot gain a basic understanding of using sessions in PHP.
July 15th 2015
Today, we learned about Redmine, documenting our projects, and how to allow people to view our work. I am most proud of getting a good start on my general store. Now I need to learn how to get the variables that people enter and store them in a cart. Mobeen helped me link my public_html to Redmine. I helped Menefese fix his general store's order total function.
July 14th 2015
Today, we worked on our general stores or mock eCommerce pages. I am most proud of finishing my temporary Dynamic Page PHP project. Now I only have to make the XML blog to complete the PHP projects. I hope that I will understand how to display the data in mySQL on my general store when I finish stocking it. Menefese helped me connect mySQL to php. I helped Menefese with his mySQL code.
July 13th 2015
Today, we finished up our PHP projects and started working on our mock eCommerce web pages. I am most proud of finishing most of my PHP projects leaving only two to go. I hope that I will not have too much trouble with them or with starting my mock eCommerce webpage. Keith helped fix a small error in my dice statistics program.
July 10th 2015
Today, we learned about using mySQL in PHP. I am most proud of making my PHP programs and website look nice. I hope that I will be able to finish the rest of the PHP programs and debug any issues in them. Miguel and Keith helped me understand PHP and debug my programs. I was able to help Vincent by giving him feedback on his website.
July 9th 2015
Today, we learned about mySQL. I am most proud of finishing a couple of my PHP programs. I now have a better understanding of php, though I still have much to learn and could use a bit of practice. Vincent helped debug my PHP programs. I was able to help Ryan and Iain brainstorm designs for an email icon.
July 8th 2015
Today, we learned about forms in PHP. I am most proud of asking for help on my calendar program when I needed it. I still am having trouble understanding PHP so I hope someone will be able to help me.
July 7th 2015
Today, we were introduced to PHP programming. I am most proud of completing the random hex code and linking it in my portfolio. I hope to understand PHP better in the coming weeks.
July 6th 2015
Today, we learned about regular expressions and drawing canvases in html using javascript. I am most proud of drawing a smiling mouse on my canvas. I hope to learn how to design interactive websites. Rohin helped me learn regular expressions faster. I helped Rohin debug his canvas javascript.
April 25th 2015
Today, we learned how about parallel programming and how we can use it to accomplish more tasks or gather data quickly. I am most proud of making my pi program parallel. I am hoping to learn how parallel programing models can be put online through Javascript. Vincent helped me peer review my Pi Parallel Program and fix the permissions on some of the links in my portfolio. I helped him understand how parallel programming works.
April 18th 2015
Today, we learned a bit about coding in C through Emacs in BCCD. I am most proud of having a good start on the program for determining pi. I hope to learn how to finish the pi program. Erin helped me brainstorm what I might need to code the pi program. I helped Andrew remember how to write a declared integer in a string.
April 17th 2015
Today, I made up the work for the April 11th workshop. I learned about the basics of parallel computing and am excited about programming in C. I am most proud of completing the lesson plan efficiently. Mobeen helped me set up the BCCD. I am hoping to learn more about the capabilities of parallel programming and supercomputers. Among the top supercomputers in the world are the Tianhe-2 in Guangzhou, China with 3,120,000 computer cores; the Titan in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US with 299,008 cores; and the K computer in Kobe, Japan with over 640,000 cores. The Blue Water Supercomputers would be pretty high on the Top 500 supercomputers list, but Bill Kramer, the Blue Waters Project Director decided to opt out of the list.
Mar. 21st 2015
Today, we finished our group projects and presentations. I am most proud of finishing my project with time to spare helping my peers with their projects. I am also proud of having a backup that we used since our final project had a glitch. Nia helped me the most to work on our project and prepare ourselves to present. Here is a link to our project, Seals & Fish JavaScript Model; you can download it by clicking the image in my Portfolio. I am looking forward to learning more about computer science and working with others in the spring.
Mar. 19th 2015
Today, I made up the class I missed on the 14th. Phil taught me how to make "tag-less" fish by setting their tag volume to zero. Unfortunately, I was unable to write any code or help any peers since I was the only apprentice at the office. I hope to learn how to make tagged seals and have the fish flee from them.
Mar. 7th 2015
Today, we learned how to make models in HTML. I am most proud of writing the code for the life cycles of the seals and fish and the feeding cycle of the seals without help. I hope to learn how to make my seal and fish model more realistic. Griffen and Wu helped me write the code for the seals to determine the strongest sound of the tagged fish. I was able to help Ojas debug his code fore the fish's feeding cycle.
Mar. 3rd 2015
Today, I made up the class that I missed on the 28th. Phil taught me about arrays, functions, and objects. I am most excited about objects and adding properties to them. I heard about using interval IDs to animate objects and hope to learn more about them. I am most proud of creating a new vehicle in Phil's race program. You can find that
. Feb. 14th 2015
Today, we learned several new javascript skills such as else and else if statements, for loops, and while statements. I am most proud of coding a Magic 8-Ball program and linking it to my website by myself. I hope to learn more about solving problems using code and hope it helps with my regular math skills. Anup helped me find the projects we were working on today and I helped him with his Magic 8-Ball and Bouncing Particles programs.
Feb. 7th 2015
Today, we came back from our winter break; it is the start of a new semester at Shodor. I learned what a couple arithmetic operators such as the % did in Javascript and I also learned about assignment operators and logical operators. I am most proud of writing the if statements that determine the quadrants, axes, and the origin in a quadrant program. I heard about learning to code by looking at other peoples programs. Phil helped me debug the if statements in my coordinate plane program. I helped Irene learn some of the coding operators and to debug some of her programs.
Dec. 13th 2014
Today, I learned how to upload my group project to my website. I am most proud of the group presentation I did with my partner, Griffen. I saw a couple of one of the interns' websites, shodor.org/~alexc/ and his personal one, alexpclarke.com, and I hope to learn how to make a website like his. Aiden helped me fix some errors that were in my html files so that I could validate them. Another apprentice, Vincent, helped me graph my seal and fish populations in AgentSheets and upload pictures of my group's project to my website. Using what Vincent showed me, I was able to help Anup with his AgentSheets population graph.
Dec. 6th 2014
Today, I learned about creating "tagged" attributes of agents and having them give off a signal that other agents are either repelled or attracted to. I am most proud of arranging the code for the tagged seals by myself. I hope to learn how to share my work on my website. Iain, the intern, helped me the most by checking to see if my tagged fish and tagged seals worked in AgentSheets. I helped my fellow apprentice,Anup, make his tagged seals die and his fish afraid of the tagged seals.
Nov. 22th 2014
I am most excited about creating agents that are attracted to other agents in AgentSheets. I am most proud of asking for help on my project when I needed it. I am hoping to learn more about modeling seal and fish populations in vensim, which I could not do much of this week. My partner, Griffen, helped me make our AgentSheets model for the group project. I helped him in turn to spell an intern, Iain's, name correctly while working on our class reflections.
Nov. 15th 2014
Today, I learned about system based modeling in Vensim. I am most proud of creating a system of people susceptible to disease, infected people, and immune people. I heard about integrating other factors such as birth rate into a system. Phil helped me understand the relationships between auxiliary variables and rates.
Nov. 8th 2014
Today, I learned about agent based modeling in AgentSheets. I am most proud of creating an AgentSheet for a hypothetical scenario involving the interaction between healthy and infected people. I am hoping to learn about system based modeling that will be taught next class. Phil helped me catch up on material covered on the day I missed really fast. I helped Phil find an error in our AgentSHeet which was putting the counter in to track the amount of healthy and infected people.
Nov. 1st 2014
Today, I learned about creating and moving files with the terminal in Mac. I am most proud of creating some content for my website. I heard about creating a lot of stuff for my website using what I learn from other websites and what is taught in class. My fellow apprentice,Aiden, helped me move some files around in my tree. I helped my friend,Irene, catch up on some terminal commands that were taught at the beginning of class.
Oct. 18th 2014
I am most excited about the skills I leaned in Microsoft Excel today. I am most proud of completing the Cure Rate spreadsheet for the SIR build. Dr. Panoff talked about using what you know is true to find out what you do not know. I hope to learn how to use this way of critical thinking more often. Phil helped me find and fix an error in my Excel spreadsheet. Later, I found a similar problem and was able to fix it myself using what Phil had showed me. I helped my partner,Menfese, brainstorm ways we could use rope as a model.
Oct. 11th 2014
Today, I learned about using logic to solve problems as demonstrated by Dr. Panoff's sudoku methods. I am most proud of working collectively with my group during an assignment where we found the mass of Earth according to different sites. I am hoping to learn more about "re-presentation" and computational thingking and want to be able to train my mind to use these. Dr. Panoff taught us about expectation, observation, reflection, representation, and computational thinking. I helped my group by researching Earth's mass and I also helped my partner,Collin, by accurately measuring our piece of paper to find its inconsistency in dimension with other pieces of paper.
Oct. 4th 2014
I am excited about working in an office environment with people my age who have similar goals and interests as I. I am most proud of mingling with my new peers this first week. I am hoping to leran more programming languages and about web design. Mr. Ron Broadnax helped me understand office ethics here at Shodor. He was also very clear in his explanation of office ethics everywhere. I was able to help everyone by holding the door for them.