Additional Post 9: When it all comes down to it...

Senior year has been a blast, providing me with great experiences and working with a subject that I enjoy working on. Software development was a topic that I had been curious about; being able to research and learn the basics and go in-depth was an enlightenment.

After finishing up with this project, I will being going to California State University, Fullerton to work towards a degree in Computer Science. This will guide me in my endeavor to study about software development even more. Hopefully, I can gain enough experience to work in the game development specific path for the degree.

Blog 22: Senior Project Reflections

Directions: Please answer the following questions and turn it in to the blog.
Due Date: The day after your block presentation by 8:00 A.M.


(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Block Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I am most proud of my lesson and content for my block presentation and being able to explain my content as simply as possible while keeping the core of it and the basics to the audience. I am also proud of conducting my interviews and being able to teach this information to many others. I am really proud of my the lesson and the content that I presented in my block presentation as programming languages can be obscure to understand. Being able to conduct my interviews and presenting the information about technology made me proud as it gave me confidence to be able to gain primary sources for my work while understanding how to present the information to others.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

My research, interviews, presentations, and my independent components worked for me in my senior project. Research was helpful, albeit limited to certain areas. The information was very helpful and I was able to answer my essential question. Interviews worked for me as well as some of the comments mentioned by my interviewees. They gave me information and resources that led me to describe my answers. Presenting on my topic really worked as it gave me the confidence to work on how to organize my information and what will help the audience understand. Independent Components solidified some of my answers and gave me experience in how each programming language differed.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

If a time machine was available, I would have spent more time looking for a good mentor ship. Although mentoring at Cal Poly Pomona's SAITS was a good experience, it was difficult to connect it to my essential question and learning about mobile applications, as SAITS focuses on IT Services rather than development. I would have also looked into modifying my activity. My activity for my Presentation, although creative in my opinion, was difficult to really understand if they did not have much experience in programming.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

This senior project has been helpful in my future endeavors as it showed me that studying this topic is what I want to be doing. Learning the basics of each language and studying the unique aspects of them solidified my working on and studying computer science and application development in the future. The senior project presentations has been one of the best sources for me to learn how to present and speak in public. It will help me in any public speakings given and how to handle myself for any presentation. With the independent components, it gave me the experience to program and work with languages and how much I enjoy doing so.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

Done

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

Cathy Bates, Cal Poly Pomona Student Affairs Information & Technology Services

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important thing that I have gained from the experience of being mentored at Cal Poly SAITS is that I was able to get a first-hand look at how the branch works to help solve technical problems among Student Affairs. This is important to me as the idea of programming is simplifying in solving problems and what it takes to streamline the solution for others to use. All of this comes from where the 

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

What I have done at Cal Poly SAITS has helped me answer my EQ by looking at what technicalities fall into programming languages and how they differ from one another. When I studied about XML and its use for the preparation of creating an API (application programming interface), I found that it was very similar to HTML5 and what makes it useful, which helped me in looking at the languages from a different perspective. It has also helped me in conducting interviews to help answer my EQ.

*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office.  After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody.  It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly.  The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.