Tuesday, January 20th

In class today, we did presentations. I presented along with Toren, Aaditya, Luima and Yesinn.

Toren kept working with Blender. I think that Blender is a cool application to be able to work with, and I'm sure that you can make very cool and interesting things with it. But something about it doesn't really please me. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but for some reason I am not tempted at all to try it. Perhaps it's because it takes such a long time to complete projects or maybe just the fact that it's very hard to learn to use and it took Toren over 4 months.

Aaditya did something that I enjoy very much. He worked with Google SketchUp. I am a fan of everything that has to do with building things, and architecture and whatnot, so what Aaditya did really caught my eye and interested me. I thought that his projects were very cool and what truly fascinates me about this program is that you can do anything you want ! Really, you can build anything you want to, however big or small you want to ! In the future, if I don't do coding, I will definitely work with a program like this.

What Luima did was Greenfoot, which I did last semester. It wasn't really new to me at all, since I had done the exact same thing as her. However, I have to say that the way she made the games her own were very creative. I especially liked the sounds for when you ate the pizza or the hamburger or the fries. She was very original in modifying the projects.

Yessin also did something very interesting. He worked on code - like me. But not Java code, HTML and CSS code. That is the code that is used to create websites and the code that is used on the web. To me, at first, it looked extremely complicated with all the characters on the screen (it looks much much harder than Java in my opinion) but to my surprise Yesinn told me that it was relatively easy and that he found it to be easier than Java. It might be something that interests me in the future, HTML code. I also enjoyed the website he made about the class. I'm still waiting for him to send me the link to it.

I think that my presentation went well. I knew that since I didn't have one major project, I was going to have to do something special to not bore the audience completely, which is why I tried to do this sort of interactive presentation, where I involved the audience. My goal was to give people in the class an idea of what I do during class, and what kind of code I work with. I know that not everyone understood the code completely, but I think I succeeded in explaining it to some people and giving the entire class a general idea of what CodingBat and Java was. I enjoyed working with the class, it was interesting to see how some of the people understood the code quickly and some didn't.

I'm going to keep working with CodingBat, completing level by level, for the next semester.