Today was the final day of my first block of the summer. I had workshop documentation duty for Joel's Website Design workshop. In the workshop, the students learned how to connect remotely to Shodor using Cyberduck and code a number of website features using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including a button that moves when moused over, a dropdown menu, and forms. It was very interesting to see the workshop and I enjoyed my documentation duty today.
Today I worked on my website HTML and CSS. I rewrote it from scratch using my high level design document as reference. As of the end of today, my website has a header, a navigation bar with a dropdown menu of Shodor resources, a two-column main section with information about me and about Shodor, and a footer section with credit to me and Shodor staff. The only changes I have to add are collapsing my menu section into a clickable icon with a dropdown menu and changing the main section to be one-column on a mobile-sized view.
Today I finished my website HLD document and began working on writing the code for my website. I'm rewriting the HTML and CSS from scratch, using references from the Rocket Design project, my old website design, and general knowledge. I plan to make my website responsive, meaning that it would have different layouts and functionalities depending on the size of the window and whether the site was viewed from mobile, tablet, or desktop.
Today I finished working on my models for the main project for this block. I made finishing touches on my Vensim model and completed my AgentCubes model, fixing the error from yesterday. I created a counter agent in my AgentCubes model in order to create a graph of the agents. I also worked on my website HLD document and created a favicon in Inkscape with an outline of my glasses.
Today I continued working on the main project for this block. I finished my Vensim model and nearly finished my AgentCubes model, although I was having an error I'm not sure how to fix where my agents started changing back into caterpillars after changing into pupas so I'll have to ask for help tomorrow. I also worked on my website HLD document and created a sketch in Inkscape of my plan for my website.
Today I continued working on the main project for this block. I almost finished my Vensim model and just have to add finishing touches next week. I worked on my AgentCubes model and made some significant progress. I also worked on my logos and icons in Inkscape, my website high-level design document, and my first block project website.
Today I continued working on the responsive website video tutorial and finished it. It was a great way to review some HTML and CSS skills and learn some new ones as well. I also worked on the main project for this block. I worked on the Vensim model and got a significant way through it. Finally, I began working on the HLD document for my website, which I will be editing and personalizing over the summer.
Today I continued working on the main project for this block for the first hour. I programmed the actions of the eggs, foliage, and caterpillars in the world, setting up the eggs to age and occasionally die, the foliage to attract the caterpillars, and the caterpillars to hill climb the foliage "scent". Once that was finished, I began working on the responsive website video tutorial. I will upload that onto my website as well when I finish it tomorrow.
Today I continued working on the main project for this block. I began working on the agent model. I created each agent and shape in the world and began to program their actions. I also began working on the system model, but didn't make much progress beyond creating the variables. Finally, I did the image manipulation and resizing work in Gimp, which I will upload onto my website soon.
Today was the beginning of my first block of the summer. During our first block, we have a variety of projects to complete, as well as occasional ODAA work. I will only be able to attend the latter half of the day during this block, but I'll be making up for lost time by attending the second week of the third block later on this session. Today, I began working on our main project for this block, which is to create two models and a website to simulate a scenario. The scenario I chose was the life cycle of a butterfly. I wrote out my high level design (HLD) document outlining the work I'll be doing on this project.