Blog
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Oct.8th 2016
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Today was my first day at Shodor. Today was a day for learning the names of the others that would be attending Shodor and learning more or less the rules that we would have to follow.
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Oct. 15th 2016
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Today we had talked about ethics and what it was and what are some good ethics, and what are some negative types of ethics.
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Oct. 22nd 2016
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Today we worked on Excel and created a coinflip model to test the probability of of whether a coin will land on heads or tails in a certain number of tosses.
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Nov. 5th 2016
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Today we worked on two different things in. One of them was programing concepts, and the other one was iteration examples. The Programing concepts were examples of what different programs could use such as a slider bar to change numbers.
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Nov. 12th 2016
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Today we worked on Excel and made a system model. It was called Have=Had + Change. It was an example showing what you have right now is because of what you previously had plus a change.
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Nov. 19th 2016
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Today we worked on something new called agent cubes which is a website where you can create different types of models. We had worked on two different models, One on disease and the other we named thing one.
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Dec. 3rd 2016
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Today we worked on Vensim and AgentCubes and made a predator-prey model. We also went over the group project requirements for the fall, and we had picked our groups.
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Dec. 10th 2016
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Today was the First day for the groups to work on the project. My partner and I had decided that our project would be on human demographics. We had made a layout of how it was going to be and started to get to work on it.
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Dec. 17th 2016
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Today was the second day of the project and I was able to finish my end of the project, but my partner had to leave a bit early because he had to go somewhere so I worked on some of his part for him.
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Feb. 4th 2017
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Today we made a list of programing concepts and started on creating a disease model out of a predator-prey model.
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Feb. 11th 2017
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Today we continued working on modeling the disease model out of the predator-prey model.
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Feb. 18th 2017
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Today we were able to finish the disease model that we have been working on all month.
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March 4th 2017
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Today was the first day of the new project for spring and the project is making a model on a forest fire out of a different model.
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March 11th 2017
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Today My partner Naylea and I worked on our forest fire model, but I had to leave early today to attend a class that I had to go to.
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March 18th 2017
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Today we had our presentations for our group projects. My partner Naylea and I presented our model on forest fire.
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April 1st 2017
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Today was the first day of our new topic which is called parallel computing. What parallel computing is computation where many calculations are made simultaneously.
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April 8th 2017
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Today we kept on working on our parallel computing notebook where we do examples of parallel computing and other forms of computing. We also talked about Blue waters and other Super computers.
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April 22nd 2017
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Today was the last day that we worked on our parallel computing notebook.We also worked with the virtual box and created a galaxy that would become flat then go back into a sphere.
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June 19th 2017
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Today in the morning I cleaned the board in the classroom before the workshop had started for a group of kids. After that I had spent the whole day working on my HLD until I finished and had it ready to be checked.
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June 20th 2017
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Today in the morning we did a tutorial on how to use cyber duck and how to get to open your files on text wrangler. After that I had gotten my HLD approved and I began to work on the next part of the project.
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June 21st 2017
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Today I had worked on and completed my agentcubes for the project that I am working on. I also worked on my systems model that is on vensim and I am about half way done with completing it.
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June 22nd 2017
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Today in the morning I had ODAA. I was in the front desk doing reception from nine in the morning to about a bit past twelve in the afternoon. After that I worked on my website for the rest of the day.
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June 23rd 2017
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Today in the morning we spent the time learning how to use Inkscape which is a form of creating designs. After that I spent the rest of the day working on some new projects that I received.
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June 26th 2017
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Today in the morning we spent time learning how to use gimp. Gimp is used for photoshopping. After we learned how to use gimp we spent the rest of the day working on gimp doing photoshopping projects.
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June 27th 2017
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Today in the morning I finished up working on the photoshop that I was doing on gimp yesterday and created a different one and finished it. I also spent time working on my website and changing how it looks and also adding my images that I created on to it. In the afternoon I spent the time doing ODAA, and was working at the reception.
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June 28th 2017
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Today in the morning I wrote my blog for yesterday. After that I spent the rest of the day creating a responsive web design and was unable to finish it today.
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June 29th 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on and inkscape project and completed it. After that I spent the afternoon working on my responsive website and am very close to completing it.
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June 30th 2017
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Today in the morning I finished my responsive website. After I had finished my website I started to work on gimp projects which I completed. After I completed those projects I started to work on some Inkscape projects and completed one part of it.
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July 10th 2017
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Today in the morning I spent the time working on a guiding chart for programming concepts like JavaScript, and PHP. After that we started working on a project that didn't go so well so we postponed it until tomorrow. Then I continued to work on the chart for the rest of the day.
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July 11th 2017
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Today in the morning I started working on the guiding chart for programming concepts. After about half an hour we started to work on a coin flip model that we had started to work on yesterday, but we had some problems so we made the model today. After we finished the model I went back to working on my guiding chart for the rest of the day.
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July 12th 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on the guiding chart for a bit over an hour until we started to do a tutorial on how to embed php into html. After we finished the tutorial I went back to work on the guiding chart until I had finished the first part of it. After I finished the first I began to work on another project which was creating a random hex code color generator. After a little bit of help from an inter I was able to finish it.
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July 13th 2017
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Today in the morning we had an intern give a lesson on how to create a dynamic website. After the lesson I began to work on a project where I have to create a website that switches the positions of the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name for the rest of the day and I did not finish it because I was having some complications.
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July 14th 2017
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Today in the morning I had reception duty and I spent the time working on the second part of the syntax guide for programming concepts. After my reception duty I worked on a project which was to create a calendar. I had help from Ernie in making it, but there is still some things that I have to do for it.
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July 17th 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on my calendar project for a while until we started working on another project. The project was about form validation and how to make your website safe from people being able to hack the site. After we finished working on it I went back to working on my calendar and have been able to make a good advancement in that project.
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July 18th 2017
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Today in the morning I had reception duty and worked on the second part of the programming syntax guide while I was there. I am close to finishing the second part. After I finished reception duty I had to listen to a presentation on how to be prepared for an interview. After the presentation had finished I went to work on my calendar and am close to finishing it.
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July 19th 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on my calendar and finished it. After I finished my calendar I went to work on a new project which was on dice roll. After a while of working on the dice roll I went to work on another project that I had been working on and finished it. After I finished it I went back to working on the dice roll and almost finished it.
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July 20th 2017
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Today in the morning I continued to work on my dice roll project and finished on part of it. After I finished the first part of my dice roll I began to work the second half of my dice roll which was to create a chart for it. After many hours of working on it I think I am very close to finishing it.
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July 21st 2017
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Today in the morning I finished up my dice roll model and began to work on a new project which was to create a background selector. What it does is there is a drop down bar where you can select from a selection of colors that are available and you submit that color and it changes the color of the page. After I finished the background selector I began to work on another project which was to create a blog using another programing form called xml which is similar to html. After working all day I was able to finish all the projects that I had to do but I wasn't able to validate them so I was not able to put them on my website, but I will eventually validate them so that they can be used.
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July 24th 2017
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Today was the start of my final block and it started off with an introduction to sequel Pro which is something new that we are working with. So far it has been very boring and somewhat of a head ache but after a while it has gotten easier. After we were introduced to it I began to work on a syntax guide for it and also began a mini challenge that I was very close to finishing.
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July 25th 2017
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Today in the morning I started off my day by filling in for another apprentice that was supposed to do documentation for a workshop, but he was running a little bit late. After he got here I went to work on the mini challenge that I had almost finished yesterday and finished it. After I finished that mini challenge with the data base that I was working with as a group we created more tables in atom and transfered them to Sequel Pro where we are working with the data bases. After that I decided to clean up my website a bit so that I can have it ready so that I can present it next week.
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July 26th 2017
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Today in the morning I began to work on one of the projects that were assigned to us. It was about having to use one of our models which was a dice roll model. I had to make it so that the model would only roll one die and that it could only be rolled between one and one hundred times. After I finished that I did the other part of the project in which I had to add a form with two questions. The questions were what is your shoe size, and what is your favorite color. After I finished that I began to work on a different project, but I didn't get really far because I had to leave early.
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July 27th 2017
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Today in the morning I resumed working on the project that I had started to work on yesterday I created a database on the dice roll with different types of tables that were linked to one of the tables. I then had linked the database to the dice roll that I had created yesterday.Once I linked the majority of the two models together I began to work on improving the model so that the database can will track how many dice each person has rolled.
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July 28th 2017
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Today in the morning I had reception duty and spent the time working on my dice roll model and fixing errors that I was having. After I fixed my errors I started to add to the model and adding to the data base so that the two would be connected. I also spent the afternoon working on the model by adding things that needed that needed to be added such as a connection between the model and the data base that involved inputting your first name.
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July 31st 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on a part of the Sequel Pro syntax that I forgot to do and began to work on it until I got a bit tired of working on it. After that we had a small celebration because today was Dr. Panoff's birthday. In the afternoon I began to work on my dice roll project and began making a table so that it could track the information and display it on the screen.
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August 1st 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on my dice roll model and making it so that it would show the results for the number of dice that were rolled. After that I searched up css libraries and found one that I am going to use for my website later and saved it to my newdev folder so that I would be able to use it later. I then got back to work on my dice roll and had to connect one of my tables to another table because it was going to make it easier for me so that I would have to do less coding to make the model keep track of new people using the model.
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August 2nd 2017
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Today I worked on my dice roll model making it so that it would display a table that would show the user the data that the model has received and it would show the results for each roll. I also began to make it so that the model would also show the average of all the shoe sizes that it has collected. I also began to work on a part in the model were it would show the most popular color that has been mentioned in the data base, but I will finish that tomorrow.
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August 3rd 2017
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Today I worked on my dice roll model in the morning and made it so that the most popular color would show up. After that I began to work on validating a lot of the work that I have done. Since tomorrow is my last day I needed some of the work that I have done to get onto my website so I was able to validate almost all of my work, except for three projects. Although I wasn't able to get them on my website I will still have things that I will be able to present.
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August 4th 2017
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Today In the morning I worked on validating my work and getting it onto my website. I also worked on getting other projects that I previously worked on in the previous blocks. I also gave a presentation on what I've done here at Shodor throughout my summer. After I gave my presentation on my summer I went back to work on getting my work validated so that I can put it on my website. I was able to finish the majority of my work, but I wasn't able to complete all of it, so there is a possibility that I will come here during the last block of the summer to get the work that I wasn't able to finish over the blocks done.
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Extra Blog
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Today in the afternoon we had a guest speaker from Cisco come in to talk to us about the internet of things which is every related to every thing that we use that requires the use of the internet such as social media like instagram, snapchat, and twitter.
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August 9th 2017
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Today in the morning I worked on my dice roll model and made it so that the most popular color would get posted onto the screen. I also moved the table that shows the information that you input so that it would be under the form that you fill in. After that I did some validation on it. In the afternoon There was a guest speaker that worked on resumes with us and showed us good examples of resumes and bad examples of resumes. After that we began to create our own resumes and after we finished them we turned them in.
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August 10th 2017
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Today in the morning I finished up my dice roll model and also finished the validation for my dice roll model. I also put my model on my website. After I finished my model I began to work on the work that I did not get to complete during the first block. I began to work on a system model that is based on wind energy and how wind energy is produced. I wasn't able to get far in it because after starting on it the power went out and we didn't get it back up until a couple hours later, but then we couldn't log in because the internet was down. After the internet was fixed I had to start over because I wasn't able to save it the first time. After I got back to where I was the first time I saved it and I had to got watch a video that all of the apprentices had to watch.
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Extra Blog
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In the afternoon today we watched a video called "CODE debug of the gender gap." There was a lot of tings that I learned in the video one of them was that there is something called a brogrammer which is a someone like a jock and a programmer mixed into one. The video also talked about how women have been treated unfairly toward being a computer/software engineer and I believe that women are very capable of becoming that because they are equal to men and can become computer/software engineers. This video has also taught me that we can always make room for improvement. An example would be convincing more people from other races to become computer/software engineers so that the jobs that those careers have begin to get filled up with not just one race, but many more.
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August 15th 2017
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Today I came to Shodor late, but I still was able to get a lot of work done. I was able to finish my system model and was able to make web banners out of my name logos that I made in first block and I was also able to make a web banner out of the initial logo that I created in first block. Al I need to do now is to create a image logo and then create a web banner out of it.
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August 17th 2017
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Today in the morning I started on the last project that I needed to do before I finished my summer here at Shodor. It was a image design that I had to create using Inkscape. After a couple of hours I had finished creating it and and I also had made a web banner out of it. After that I had a mentor meeting to show my mentor the rest of my projects that I wasn't able to last time. while I was showing my mentor one of my projects there was a problem with it and I had to show him an older version of it, but after the meeting I updated the older version to how the one I had finished was and I put it on my website.