Entry 4

Today we had a shorter session than usual.  We began the day with Anna’s talk about making your own personal website, in particular, using WordPress.  Although, I already have my own WordPress personal website, she taught me some new tips and tricks.  I learned how to properly pick a color scheme, using Paletton, for my website to make it more viewer friendly.  Also, I learned how to add a tab to my website that directs the user to an outside source, such as another website.  Next, we had an amazing presentation on machine learning.  This was my favorite part of todays session.   We got an insight on how machines learn different behaviors, for example, we saw some of the background as to how self driven cars make decisions based on the library of information they have.  Then,  Fernando taught us what a Prototype is, and the different ways to go about making one.  Although, I have made prototypes before, I was super interested in the “Sketch” application that he showed us.  It’s extremely user friendly and all the built in templates make creating prototypes very easy.  The pre-installed apple templates really triggered my desire to possible build a prototype for some of my project ideas that I have been brainstorming for the past few years.  After that, we watched all the project videos that we made last night, and let me tell you….. they were hysterical!  Not to brag or anything, but my group got voted as having the best video.  Last, we got to rank our top choices for the project we would like to work on during this ten week program.  I hope I get my top choice!!!!

 

Here is a copy of my notes from today. Enjoy!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPpey2AtgK47Z6UMDyg6DUE0FZrL7X6u-ZR7KEbHWXI/edit