Office Ethics Project
After listening to a presentation on office etiquette done by Shodor staff,
we answered a complex, hypothetical scenario of an office conflict and
described how we would resolve the conflict.
HTML Research Guide
Our first step into diving into the world of programming by learning
the fundamentals of HTML, a website markup language. We researched
different ways to use the language and its importance.
Coin Flip/Dice/Spinner
Part of our fall orientation was learning about using functions in
software like Excel to create small projects. These series of project
dealt with the random function and using that to randomly choose an
outcome.
Dominant and Recessive Model
This Excel project was again playing on the random function. We tested a group of "parents," ones with dominant alleles, and ones with recessive alleles,
and found out and counted what kind of allele combination their children contained.
Diffusion Model
This is another Excel project. This one works more like a model - we modeled a cold classroom being
heated up with heaters and how the temperature would spread around.
Rabbits Model
This is another type of modeling tool that we used, called VenSim, that focuses on the visual aspect of
modeling with arrows and boxes to model. This models the population of rabbits without any other limiting factors.
Healthy and Sick Model
This is a VenSim model that models the population of healthy people and sick people in the scenario that a
percentage of each type would change to another, simulating a disease going around.
Predator Prey Model
Like the previous rabbit model, this VenSim model models exactly that- a rabbit population, but now factoring in
a wolf population which eats the rabbits and contains wolves that birth and die.
AgentCubes Disease Model
We created a model using AgentCubes, another visual modeling tool, where cubes (agents) move
around in a world and we can observe results based on behavior we give the agents. Our model sets the behavior of the cubes to be: if
they randomly move around in the world, if a healthy cube touches a sick cube, it will
become sick.
Group Project 1 - Caterpillars
Aneesh and I worked on our first group project together, and we decided to model the life cycle of caterpillars.
We created an AgentCubes model and a VenSim model to show how the quantity of caterpillars undergoing their lifecycle changes and is affected by the population of ants.
