So here's some of the work I've done at Shodor so far. Very cool.
- Personal Logo - this was a graphics assignment I made using Inkscape. Inkscape is an amazing application I've learned to use at Shodor. You can make various logos and interesting designs and pictures with it. I think it's free, too!
- CSS Challenge - this was a great project assigned to us by Ismael when he was teaching the CSS class. We had to take a plain webpage with some content and turn it into the image he showed us. He didn't give us any of the CSS code and we had to figure it out for ourselves. I had a blast. xd
- AgentSheets Predator-Prey Model - this is one of my favorite models at Shodor. We use it all the time with AgentSheets. It's a very realistic scenario in which grass grows on the ground, rabbits eat the grass, wolves eat the rabbits, and they all can die. It's a pretty simple model, and it's easy to add up from the basic infrastructure. You can add more environmental elements or possibly even a new predator. The possibilities are endless!!
- Net Logo Reproduction Model - this NetLogo Assignment was loads of fun. NetLogo is an amazing modeling program that you can use with many scenarios. It's very easy to use, like AgentSheets, but it allows the user to write their own code instead of dragging and dropping the various pre-designated pictorial commands into certain methods. NetLogo gives you more freedom and versatility to make more interesting, complex models. This one was very cool. The little people have different genders and they go around making babies! and they die :(
- Group Project - this project was. uhm. GREAT! ...basically we just made a website with our assigned group and wrote about what we did and how it worked out. practicing html and css and pretty website-ness. however, in the interest of time (more like lack of time), our website actually ended up kinda ugly. I'm still proud of it, though!
- Avian Flu Group Project (NetLogo) - this was one of the hardest modeling projects we have received so far! We had to model an outbreak of avian flu using NetLogo. We simulated a small town with a nearby farm. In the town, there are many different "breeds", such as farmers, citizens, and chickens. The chickens stay in the fenced-in farm area, and the citizens stay out of the farm. The only people that interact with both the chickens and the citizens are the farmers. Initially, a single chicken starts out with the virus. It spreads around the virus, and the virus mutates through several transmissions to a level capable of bird-to-human infection. Next, a farmer interacting with the chickens contracts the infection. He goes around with it, spreading around the virus and causing it to further mutate. The people he/she interacts with do not necessarily get the infection, but they are exposed to the virus and their virus IDs are raised. Once the virus IDs cross a certain threshold, human-to-human infection becoms possible. This model was hard to make and figure out because we didn't really know how to go about building the various elements and tie them together. It was especially difficult figuring out how to write the code for the mutation with the virus IDs and everything. Luckily, Valerie helped us out a lot. This is the powerpoint from our presentation. The actual model will up soon...
