Today was the orientation to the Shodor Apprenticeship program. We took a tour of the building, and learned where we will be learning and working. Today was mostly a intro day so that we could get to know each other with the staff.
We learned that the internet is not a reliable source. And that anybody could make up information and put it on. I am most proud of starting my on website and blog. I hope to work on my website
Today in class we learned about how to create a portfolio document in the terminal. We also learned in the beginning of the class about professional ethic works and how to dress to impress or being on time. I also worked and finished my website today.
Today we learned in class that we can model things in excel. Dr. Panoff taught this class and showed us how we can use this data that we key in and create a graph as in a visual representation with excel.
Today in class we learned about modeling and simulations and how it can affect our way of understanding about something. We also used this program called Vensim to help us create and visualize models and simulations. I also helped some people because I learned how to use Vensim in SSP.
I learned how to use system modeling through the program called agent cubes. We learned how to make a small system model of healthy, sick, and doctor variables. I am most proud of remembering the agent cubes model through SSP and had answered the questions that Dr. Panoff had asked. I hope to learn much more about computer programming concepts so that I can be more effective in the future.
We had gotten assigned our first group project today so we only went over what the expectation is. The observation that we needed for the project model. And the reflection that we have to do after the project. I am most proud of grouping up with the people that want to do the same model as me. Plus for actually starting my first group project. I hope to work more on my project and to learn from the mistakes that I will make in the future. Among the peers my group members, Akash and Aneesh, helped me when the model was not working for me.
Today we did not learn much because we worked on our group project all day so that we can present next week. I am most proud of collaborating with my group members Akash and Aneesh to complete our project. I hope to learn more about how we should create our project website so that I can apply it to my on personal website. Ernie, Ian, and Dr. Panoff helped our group when could not get our vensim model to work and the HLD. We also helped other groups such as Albert's group when all of the supervisors were not open at the moment with agent cubes.
Today we did not do much either because we did our presentation of our final project of the unit. I hope to learn about parallel computing in the next unit. I also want to apply the things I learned last unit into the next unit.
We learned to day how to make if then statements that we used in agent cubes in java script. I am most proud of making most of my projects and following directions and getting the correct answers with programming. I hope to finish more of the little projects for I want to get better at if then statements. I helped the people around me like Aneesh when he was behind the class.
We learned about how we can create for loops and if then statements to complete the task of finding a random number.I am most proud of being able to understand the topic and build more on with the knowledge Aaron gave us.I am hoping to learn more about for loops and if then statements so I can hopefully apply them soon to my programs.Aaron helped me in a one to one conversation about the topic to help me fully understand the problem.
We learned to day how to use javascript and the console to create variables and functions for websites to use. I am most proud of following and knowing the vocabulary that we had learned in the past and apply it to this weeks work. I am really excited to start the next group project and hoping to work with new people this time. Aaron helped me with the console icon and Varsha helped me to understand the problem I had in the console.
We learned to day that I really want to finish this new project so that Ernie will not beat me with the Ernie stick/ won't steal my money. I am most proud of working with my partner that was chosen for me and finishing the task for this week. I am really excited to actually finish and present the new project to the class to show of the work that I have accomplished.
We did not anything today of we had to work on our second group project some more. I am most proud of completing the task of creating the trees on a blank canvas.I hope to learn how to start the fire and actually make it spread among the trees. Albert helped me the most by showing me how to make the trees on the canvas.
This week we did not learn much either because we worked on finishing up our group project. I am most proud of making the fire to start and to get the time interval overtime for the burning red tree to turn black. I hope to learn how to include people into the scenario and make them be able to extinguish the fire. Aaron helped me to find the code off of Ernie's website. And Albert showed me how to turn the trees black over time.
We did not learn much today because we were presenting our projects to our fellow workers. I am most proud of going beyond the expectations and making input boxes. I heard that we are learning about parallel computing that I very excited about. Aaron helped me to input a slider bar into my program.
Today I learned about super parallel computers working together to complete a task at hand. I am proud of following and doing all of the assignments when told to do so. I hope to learn more and more about parallel computing. Aaron helped me the most when I had questions about parallel computing and doing the activity assignments.
We just worked on our notebook and finishing up on unfinished projects. I am most proud of understanding some of the concepts such as work reduction by distributing the amount of work to more workers. I hope to learn more fun things about parallel computing. Aaron was the only one there because it was a make up. I did not help anyone because it was a make up day
Today we worked on a new project of creating a HLD for a project that we are a project manager of. This project HLD will be given to someone else to make the model for. This High Level Design will also have to be approved by Ernie and given to someone else at random. Ernie helped me to understand the question I had about the project of if you should do the function analysis of the HLD if we want the person to do a agent cubes model. Tomorrow we will still be able to work on the HLD to refine it and turn it in to be judged by the all mighty Ernie.
Today we worked more on our HLD making it the best that we could in order for the other person to understand the model you are imagining. I finished before the first break so I had some time to kill, so I decided to work on improving my website for shodor. I learned from the website bootstrap and was able to create the css for my website. As well as a drop down menue for the shodor resources menue for my website. I wish to learn more useful techniques from online sources to help improve my website even more.
Today we worked on finishing our HLD and getting it approved by the all mighty Ernie, from getting it approved he then gave us a partner to do there model from their HLD. Before he gave us our partner I worked on my website and had Akash look at it and help me with my problem of the links being white. Akash helped me to fix it today and after lunch I worked on trying to start the model for Armaan because I got his HLD from Ernie to make his model for him. I still wish to work more on improving my website in the future to learn useful techniques.
Today we worked on starting our model programs ,for the all mighty Ernie, the model that I was given to do was a the fashionista phil. In this model the people use the color that is the most popular during the time. So I worked on one out of the two models that was required and was able to complete the first model in agent cubes. Tomorrow I wish to be able to finish the other model so I can prep for the project presentation.
This week we learned a useful way to communicate ideas through technical designs of a High level Design Process. From creating our own HLD we then switched it with a random persons HLD and had to make a model based on the HLD. I was able to make two successful models from this HLD from Armaan. In my spare time I tried to make the pong model that I was doing to work, but failed to get it to work. I am most proud of accomplishing the tasks that were given to me from the all mighty Ernie. Plus I even was able to make my website a little bit better by learning how to make the hover tool on the blogs. So now anytime the mouse is over the blog it highlights the text for you. I also helped the interns to install Xcode and running there programs on the laptops for the workshop next week. I heard that we will be improving our websites even more during block 2 and 3 of the shodor apprenticeship. I am really excited to learn more useful html code to help me improve my site even more. I wish to make a website that I want to be proud to show all of my family and tell them that I made it.
Today we learned about the basics of php. This new program is very similar to javascript as it has for loops, while loops, variables, and functions. Also today we did a little bit of the php programs in basic models such as changing the color background of the page every time some one loads the page. Today Albert was the one that helped me the most.
Today we were trying to finish up the projects that we were assigned yesterday that should last us a week of just working. Today I was able to accomplish the calendar project where you had to create a calendar using php, and I also finished the dice rolling project where you had to create a program out of php that will tell you the result from the number of times you inputted into the program.
Today I finished three more of the php projects assigned to me from the interns. One of the projects was to create a dynamic page so the page is to link into the different the pages that say something else. Then I did the back ground selector which was to create the page that changes the background color. Finally I was able to finish the Dane Joe project that takes a string letter from the word and places it into a different word.
Today I finished all of my php projects so I was able to finally work on my calendar project assigned by the interns. I was just been able to do some research on how to create a calendar that inputs the events that you want it to have. I was also able to create a xml blog using only just php and without having to open up the main copy.
This week we learned about php which was difficult at first to understand because it was a new computer language. php is very similar to javascript so after the third day I was able understand by then. I also had a lot of ODAA so I was helping out the workshop kids.I am most proud of finishing my php projects and being able to understand a new language. This is a very useful skill to have for future web design. This is because one of the projects that I was assigned was able to change the background color through php.
Today Ron and Caroline taught us the wonderful field of engineering in the morning. What we did was that we split up into groups of three and ran a lot of experiments with a ball drop and a ramp. So we used a program that will tell us our initial velocity of the ramp so that we can know the distance that the marble can travel. Then in the afternoon Ernie taught us how to link our php to data bases and the preferred way that shodor wants for the html in the php language.
Today Kaleb taught us the wonderful field of electrical engineering. So we went over the different symbols in a electrical circuit diagram. Then we saw a model of circuit in the computer and then we made a circuit in real life. Then Ernie in the afternoon turned us loose to do our database projects and make up our own project. Show I just decided to make the calendar project that was originally assigned.
Today Herjot taught us about civil engineering and showed us the interesting field of what it does. So we looked at structures in modeling and made some structures out of legos. Hopefully I get to learn more about this wonderful field and I heard that tomorrow we will build straw structures. Then in the afternoon I worked on my php calendar
Today in the morning Caroline taught us more of structural engineering and it was very fun to apply the things that Herjot taught us yesterday about bridges and other structures. So me and Albert applied all of the things that I learned and we ended up winning the tower competition that was given to us from Caroline. In the afternoon it was boring because all I did was documentation for the web design class. They were learning the art of Gimp.
This week we learned php a new language that is much similar to the language that we know, javascript. This week we also got to explore different fields of engineering. Some of the Engineering fields that we discovered were electrical, structural, and physics. I am most proud of making my very own engineering projects that actually worked really well for the competitions that we had. I am also proud of the fact that I created a calendar that can access my own data base and draw events that you input and display it on the website.
Today we worked on the mysql database because my calendar did not run the way I wanted it to. The calendar was not displaying the data that the user inputs into the calendar but I figured how to display the data with Albert and Jim's help. Then the Calendar css was not working at all so that makes today a very bad day for me and hopefully tomorrow it will be better.
Today Jim helped me the most with the calendar database project. So now the Calendar works but the css was not working still so hopefully tomorrow will be better for me today. I also was able to make a delete input boxes so that was once a user inputs a event they can delete the event when ever they want to.
Today Albert and Jim helped me the most today for the delete function was not working so I needed another set of eyes that will point out my mistake that I made. I also got the css to work so I am very happy about that and now the calendar looks a lot better now.
Today I got to look at the applications that the all mighty Ernie told us to look at. These application are then suppose to be taught to the other apprentices so that we can be ready to teach other things such as a computer model or a computer program that we create. The computer application that I looked at was the monty hall model of the door game. I also looked at the tessalate model in the applications.
Today I got the great opportunity to teach my models that I was looking at to the other apprentices. Ernie only told us to teach one of the models that we looked at. So I picked the one that I felt most comfortable with which is the Monty Hall project. This model shows the probability of the chance of picking a door and getting a prize. Also today there was a landparty planned so I am very happy about doing the party and getting to learn my fellow apprentices.
Today I got to look at some of the libraries that the web has to offer. I also learned that I do not like learning on my own because it is very difficult to find the information that I need to use for my program. So I looked at the css Animate library but I was not able to understand how the function worked. Also I was able to work on the website and make it so that I did not have to use bootstrap css and I was able to get it to work.
Today I was very successful and was able to get the animation from a library called GitHub. This library allowed me to animate the text on my website and was able to make the paragraph look like it is bouncing on to the screen. I was also able to get the rectangles in my pong project to look like the paddles in the game and I was also able to make a ball in the program to.
Today I was very successful I made my website look a little more presentable and was also I worked hard on my javascript css for my personal pong project so now it looks a lot like the game and not some weird looking model. I also was able to learn about the animation css so that I could apply animation to any text.
Today I was very unsuccessful in making my pong project to work because I could not find out why the ball would not move because I had applied a animation function but was not able to get the ball move today. I was also able to make the css hover on my blogs look more like your highlighting the text instead of grey and gloom hover color.
Today I was very unsuccessful I did not get much progress in the pong project at all because I mainly was not able to get the ball to move and was not able to do anything. I feel as though I will not be able to finish in the time that I am at shodor.
I was not here Today at shodor because of a family trip
I was not here Today at shodor because of a family trip
Today I got my Vensim model to work on the fashionista phil model and I am very happy about that. Also I was also able to start the Inkscape and Gimp tutorial and make most of the Inkscape projects that I am suppose to do. I was also able to help Jim create a counter and Varsha with the background selector php project. I was very helpful today and was very successful in doing my projects to the best of my ability.
Today I was able to finish the inkscape tutorial and was able to do all of the projects that came with the tutorial. I was also able to start the Gimp tutorial so I am very excited to finish those projects. I am also excited to create my own logo and input the logo onto my personal website. I helped albert and jim, with albert I was able to tell him the things that I wanted him to do for the project for the HLD that I wrote and with Jim I was able to so him how to create a random generator with the Vensim model and was able to get his model to randomly generate the number of people with different shirts.
Today I was able to finish up the Gimp Tutorial and was also able to create my very own logo and was able to make it so that it was unique to me. I am also very excited to input the logo that I created into the my own personal website. I was also able to get some help from Jim when I was not able to make the Gimp tutorial because he took the workshop not to long ago.
Today I was very productive in making the images that I made from the inkscape and Gimp tutorials and was able to display on a webpage thanks to the help of Hamza. I also was successful in helping albert in getting started with the inkscape tutorial and helped him when he was not able to get the image that he wanted. I was also very successful in creating a photoshop image in Gimp of our apprentice coordinator Ernie. I was also struggling with this and got help from hamza to make the image that I wanted.
Today I made a image of Ernie on Donald Trumps body and was able to make it so that his skin is the same as Trumps. I was also able to make picture web page so that I can put all of the images that I create on the page so that I can display it on a page. Hamza was able to show how to export the images. Also I was able to help Albert in the Gimp tutorial.
Today I was very successful in making the another picture of ernie but this time I put him on Bernie Sanders and Hamza helped me to make this picture also. Jim and Hamza also helped me to fix the calendar php model that I had because ernie did not approve of the calendar that I made. So they were able to help me to make the calendar and debug the problem I had with May because it was not displaying the table correctly.
Today I wasn't as productive as I should have today. So all I did today was polishing up the projects that I am going to present tomorrow and making sure that all of my projects that I am going to present are all running smoothly. I also got the chance to hear Brandon's speech and presentation and learned more about how to get a ready to make a good presentation such as his. I am glad to experience this journey.
Today I wasn't as productive as I should have today. Well that was mainly because I had finished my work for the summer and was ready to leave after I gave my last apprentice presentation of the program. All in all This experience was a really fun and exciting journey because I learned a little bit about the work environment and hopefully apply the knowledge to my future jobs that I will work at.