You're looking at it. This website is what I'm working towards perfecting or at least close enough to perfecting. I have so many ideas I wanna make I'm planning on even buying a proper domain name for this eventually once I'm on my own two feet eventually. It's the kind of project that hooks me on because of the endless possiblities. I'm extremely ambitous on this one and I'm hoping to have this project grow as I grow.
Simple yet somewhat effective refresher on getting back to coding for Bunin's CS AP class at AFSE. It's been awhile since I touched HTML so it was a welcomed project. Though nothing accelerating or really something to write home about. We were somewhat introduced to number systems, though honestly the lesson plan is kinda janked and it isn't at all informative on what Binary/Hex/Ten was, at the beginning of the lesson plan.
Our teacher had us pair in groups and read pre-selected articles on Technological Innovations. Self-driving Automobiles, Swarm Drones in Warfare, Pet Robots and Cryptocurrency and summarize what we read. Moments like these make me question what class I'm really in.
We shall take a moment of silence, to remember all the unnecessary harmful plastic straws that was bought by our teacher that have made their way into the ocean and polluted our great waters. Rest in peace sea-life. Even though this is a "computer science class" our teacher had us make the longest straw bridge possible out of...plastic straws. The fact this even got approved is questionable, this has in my opinion little to do with actual coding. I guess this activity was planned to encourage teamwork and communication? Can't think of anything else.
Another simple project that I kinda question the point to sometimes nonetheless...it was a Driver and Navigator format, as some of my readers know (hopefully lol) I had a a similar experience back to the "first" entry Binary, Hex and Base 10 Table . For this project we were told to do a Driver-Navigator approach to making a schedule made of a bunch of arrays.
We had an option to research from a select four choices of articles that all talk about different computer innovations. I had researched two "interesting" articles that has been laid out for me and my class. I chose Augmented Reality because I am very well interested in how AR will impact the future, and I chose Biometrics for the next article because I'm someone who's very concerned over Biometrics. And the poenital for abuse and privacy issues.
Bunin's frequent trouble-shooting problem that his students ask him is..."My computer isn't turning on!" "My screen's black." "I plugged the cables in and I turned on the monitor but nothing's happeneing!" So he had us "learn" how to set up a computer. By removing every cable in the computers in the school's lab and plugging them back in shortly after.
Another pair-programming excercise again but with Processing. Bunin forced us to follow a pre-existing sketch of a total of ten steps. Going over how to make a simple spaceship, shape by shape. My program is simply to render that pre-existing sketch in my own written code.
In the past two weeks, over in the weekend I booted up Steam and decided to play a select-few of my Steam games I ever played ever. One of those was Empire at War and oh boy, it was amazing. I enjoyed every second of it. Empire at War is a pure masterpiece. I just loved seeing the diverse ships from the iconic TIEs to the Victory-class Star Destroyer and B-Wings, so to pay tribute I made a processing sketch of the Eclipse, though never finished.
Quick Pair Programming excercise, this time we had to make a program that'll be able to solve mazes. There were different levels to this, and each level can be accessed through different means.
A small-quick program in Scratch of a DVD screensaver, and two people complaining endlessly about their pain and their need for the DVD to hit the corner.
A small-quick program in Scratch of a DVD screensaver, and two people complaining endlessly about their pain and their need for the DVD to hit the corner. Using pre-defined lists and functions to simplify the complexity of the program and to be as effective as possible.
As part of an assignment, we needed to come up with at least a hundred ideas surrounding software and what to make. This ranged from raising awareness to world-problems and things like teaching undocumented immigrants how to become a citizen in a select country to questionable things like a "stealing netflix accounts app" and a "sofia the first ripoff game".
Here you'll find commentary on various projects and assignments. This is more of a way to document my journey into CS. Below, you can filter which entries appear by tags and navigate to other entries with the pagination.
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