Yesterday, 12/11/2015, my class started to learn a little about coding by taking part in the annual Hour of Coding. This was a fun, but rather easy way to learn the logic of coding using a block method and being able to look at the underlying code without really messing with it. I must admit that I was expecting a little more from the program seeing as I do not consider myself a serious programmer and could have practically done the activities in my sleep. I t was however fun and would probably have been more beneficial to me if I had not already spent a long time designing a simple game level on MultiMedia Fusion. In the end I do not believe it prepared me personally to learn any higher coding.
I think that the next thing I need to do to improve my coding skills is to learn a good coding language. This will help me to have more freedom in my coding and make it easier for me to learn new languages in the future.
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The SensorTag project we did was a fun project spanning about a week in all. It was aimed at teaching us the ideas of design briefs, collecting data and then displaying it in an effective manner. To do this we split into groups, and using the TI SensorTag collected data on a thesis we had come up with previously as a group. Then we split off individually to write a scientific paper on our experiment and make an infographic displaying our data.
This project had many good things in it. I enjoyed making the infographic and Learning about exel to make charts. I learned a lot about writing scientific papers and design briefs though many of the things I learned did not show up on the test which was a bit of a problem. Overall the project was fun and at a good difficulty so it did not get tiring or tedious. However there are many things I would also like improved in the project. For one I felt the data collection was rushed and it was hard to spend a lot of time getting good, accurate readings and get back to class on time. second there were difficulties getting graphs from exel to google docs and then to photo shop and it would have been nice to be told a good way up front to do that. Finally, even though I learned a lot about scientific papers in the other areas this project was supposed to touch on I did not gain any new important information. Also, the information I did get, was not on the test causing a couple lower than normal grades:(. |
AuthorSamuel Henry is a Senior at DSA in NC. He has 3 years of prior experience in the game design pathway and he's looking forward to becoming a great game designer. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools Categories
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