I wasn't able to attend to the morning today because of a service project at my school. I came in at 1:00 in the afternoon today. Leanne gave her presentation of her summer block work. I worked on my graphic design project, creating the rest of my web banners from the logos that I made previously. Ritvik gave his presentation of his summer block work. I worked on my quality assurance document for my website, describing the errors that I encountered while editing my website over the past weeks and whether they were fixed. I then updated my portfolio to reflect the work that I did during the third block of the summer.
In the morning today, I worked on the Cosmic Turtles Gimp demo, following along with the video Ernie recorded during the first block of the summer. After finishing that, I created my own version of it, involving the cat, bird, and nebula from the source images. I then worked on my Gimp banners, and created one more banner from one of my logos. I worked on my project website for the first block, changing it from a dynamic webpage to one utilizing Bootstrap. After lunch, Keith gave a presentation on how to present effectively, in preparation for our presentations, which we'll give on Friday. When he finished, I continued working on my project website. When I finished, I worked on my Inkscape graphic design project, and created my final name logo.
I had reception duty in the morning today. I received no phone calls and spent the time working on my Inkscape graphic design project, creating a second image logo, as well as working on my first block model website. In the afternoon, I worked on my Bootstrap library research project, and created sample pages with tabbed and pilled navbars, pagers and pagination, carousels, and forms and inputs. I plan to implement these into my main website tomorrow. I also worked on my Gimp graphic design project, taking my butterfly image logo and making it into a web banner.
Today was the beginning of my last week working at Shodor as an apprentice. In the morning, I worked on the Inkscape graphic design project, creating two initials logos and a favicon. I then worked on the Gimp part of the graphic design project, taking the source example image of a cat and using the crop and scale tools (which, for the record, are surprisingly enough not the same tool) to make different versions of it, as well as exporting at different qualities to experiment with the filesize. In the afternoon, I completed the PHP Calendar project, which loads a calendar page for the month of 2017 that the user selects. I continued working on the Inkscape project, creating a name logo.
In the morning today, the apprentice who was assigned for documentation duty was absent, so I volunteered. I did documentation for the Shodor Scholars Program on their last day of work. They finished up work on their final projects, designing a system model in Vensim and an agent model in AgentCubes to simulate a scenario. I helped answer their questions and work through the issues in their models with them. In the afternoon, I worked on my Gimp photo editing project for a while before it was time for the SSP students to present. The presentations went for the rest of the day, and the students all did wonderful jobs.
In the morning today I reviewed the video recorded by Ernie during the first block of the summer going over the Inkscape tutorial and the seven object collage project. I created my seven object collage during this time. Halfway through the morning, the power went out due to a car crash in downtown Durham. This made it very difficult to get any work done, since neither the computers or the servers work without power. The apprentices played the game Mafia with some of the interns. Eventually, the power came back on but the network was still not working. I decided to leave at noon and work on my projects from home.
I had reception duty in the morning today. I worked on my logos in Inkscape and Gimp during this time. I received one phone call from an automated message system. It was profoundly uneventful. In the afternoon, former Shodor intern coordinator Kristen Ross came to teach us about resumes. We went over what makes a good resume vs. what makes a bad resume. We worked with the resume template that Kristen shared with us earlier to build our own resumes.
In the morning today I continued working on my Bootstrap libraries project. I implemented the libraries in new files copied from my index, portfolio, and blog files to practice. I created blog and portfolio pages with collapsible sections for the fall, spring, and each block of the summer. I also created an affixed navbar that began in its usual place on the screen but would affix to the top of the screen when scrolled past. After lunch, I created a version of my index, portfolio, and blogs with a Bootstrap tab navigation menu, and created a Bootstrap dropdown in the place of my regular dropdown menu. I then took the scaled images that I made for the project in the first block and uploaded them to my website.
Today was the first day of the fourth block of the summer. During this block, the apprentices will be working on various projects from throughout the summer. Some apprentices will be making up the first block, some the second, and some the third. I have work to complete from each of the three previous blocks. In the morning today I finished updating my blogs to match the aesthetic of my website and began to work on my Block 3 libraries project using Bootstrap. I also made an improved version of my background selector project that allowed the user to choose from a wider variety of options, as well as another program that allowed the user to input any valid hex code to set the background color to. In the afternoon, I had documentation for the Shodor Scholars Program.