Oct. 4th 2014

Today was the first day at Shodor. I met my mentor, Phil, and made my mailbox. I also learned about locations in the office such as the bathroom, where to find people, and general places we can, and cannot go. Ron also gave us a presentation on office ethics which was prety cool. I learned a lot. I also met my fellow apprentices, and I am excited to work with them in the future.

Oct. 11th 2014

I missed Shodor today, but made it up later. I worked with Dr. panoff to figure out how we knew a source was reliable. He showed me how to figure out if a source was reliable by looking at that source's source. Dr. panoff also showed me how to check sources, through a "mass of mars" example.

Oct. 18th 2014

Today I made my first model. We started of today learning what a model was and pretty soon we were making all kinds of models. We made a model on microsoft excel and just learned more about microsoft excel. Finally, we learned commands such as pwd and cd. Also, we learned about UNIX and GNU (GNU Not Unix).

Nov. 1st 2014

Today we learned more about html. Specifically, we learned more commands with Mobeen and Aaron. It was pretty fun. I also learned about different programming languages. The commands I learned were rm, which can also be very destructive, uname -n, ssh, and scp.

Nov. 8th 2014

Today we made system based models. We also learned commands on Terminal, which I had never worked with, ever before. phil also gave us a puzzle/ mini-project on VenSim having to do with infection rates, death, and immunity. I worked with Herjot, and we completed the project after a little while.

Nov. 15th 2014

Today we did more system based modeling with phil. We did some more modeling with our VenSim project from last time, and were also introduced to AgentSheets. I really like AgentSheets because you can do a lot more things with it, than you can with VenSim. Finally, we learned about our upcoming project.

Nov. 22nd 2014

Today we started on our group project! I have Megan and Aneesha in my group. Our project is to work in our groups to make different models based on fish. Megan is doing the model on VenSim while Aneesha and I tackle the AgentSheets models. We got a lot of work done today. Also, I had my first meeting with phil, and I would say that it went pretty well.

Dec. 6th 2014

I missed Shodor today. However, Aneesha and I met up on Friday to get our work done. We finished Model two of our project, and got some work done on model 3. I think we will finish tomorrow. Also, today I finished my Website.

Dec. 13th 2014

Today was our final day to work on the project. It was also our last day ever in 2014! Aneesha and I finished, and so did Megan. Everybody also presented today. I thought my group's presentation went fairly well. I thought my group explained what we did in a thorough manner. I enjoyed the project overall. I guess I will see my fellow peers in February.

Feb. 7th 2015

Today was our first day back from break. We learned about JavaScript with phil and Aaron. A the start of class, we made a model about bouncing particles. It was pretty fun. I also put my model in my portfolio on my website. Later in the day, we did some coding with phil. We worked with a variable we called myVar, and used it in some arithmetic operations. Finally, we learned a little bit about JavaScript uses through making models with phil. They were all pretty easy.

Feb. 21st 2015

Today we made a couple more programs with phil and Aaron. I learned a lot about loops and functions. I was also able to incorporate "if" and "then" statements into my code which was fun because it was the first time I had the opportunity to do so. My favorite part was doing the Bouncing particles program because I was able to make my own "adjustments" to the program which made it unique and my own.

Mar. 7th 2015

Today we started our group project. My partners are Michael and Irene. We were able to get in a lot of work, and I predict we will be able to finish next Shodor. I was also able to debug our program since there was a problem. Overall, I would say its been a productive day. The project was to add to a program that built off the project we did last time. The difference was that this time, we used JavaScript to model and not AgentSheets or VenSim. I think our project is going to go well.

Mar. 14th 2015

Today we continued our group project. My partners (Michael and Irene) and I got a lot of work done. We did face a lot of obstacles, but were able to overcome them. I will not be able to come next week (I have school), but I am confident that Irene and Michael will finish and have a great presentation. I think I will present our project on the 27th.