Final Blog Post #2

Yesterday, I presented my Genius Hour report and I believe it went quite well. I was quite happy that I was able to entertain the class with my rather boring presentation. I was also happy that I managed to get all my blog posts done as I was struggling to keep up with weekly updates throughout the project.

I was a little unhappy that I wasn’t able to do more and talk more about my project, but still, overall I was pretty happy with how everything turned out. I hope to do this again next year.

Week 9: Contacting My Expert

During the creation of my website, I faced many problems as I was extremely inexperienced and have not fully learned everything. So in order to solve some of my problems, I have decided to get help from an expert. The person who I got help from was a man called Kevin Shen who works at a local company as a programmer. I talked to him and he taught me some things and helped me with some errors. He was very helpful to me for this project.

Week 6: Starting to Code + Progress Report

This week, I have started to use atomic code. I have downloaded the app and have begun to check out the website. I hope that I will soon be able to start writing code. After looking back at what I have accomplished compared to my original plan, I can conduct that I am not that behind schedule I should still be able to complete this project in the given time. But I still believe that I should work harder as I have not gotten much done in the past week.

Week 5: Choosing an IDE

For this week, i’ve decided to complete step 3 in my plan, and that’s finding an IDE / Code Editor. To start off, an IDE, short for an integrated development environment is an application that is used by programmers to develop software code efficiently. It combines features such as software editing, building, testing, and packaging into one application, making it much easier to use for developers. In order to code, i’ll have to find an IDE, so I have been digging around the internet searching for a good IDE to build my website on. After looking at many IDE’s and Code Editors, I have decided on Atom. Atom is a free code editor developed by GitHub which most people find reliable and easy to use for doing c# code. It is available on windows so I think i’ll be able to dowload it and start writing code.

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Week 3 + 4: Step 1 & 2

For the past 2 weeks, I have decided to work on step 1 and 2 of my plan. I have understood code and chosen a coding language. Here is some notes I wrote when I was researching about code:

The coding language I have chosen is C# code, I believe it will be the best choice as it is one of the easiest to learn and understand. For the following week, I will focus on finding an easy to use IDE to start learning C#.

Week 2: Planning

For my second Genius Hour project, I have decided to learn web development. My goal for the end of this project is to build a functional website of some sort that anyone can access on the web. For this week, I have created a simple plan on how I can achieve my goal by the end of the deadline.

  1. Understand how code works
  2. Choosing a coding language
  3. Finding an IDE / Code Editor
  4. Learning the code
  5. Make the website
  6. Create presentation
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