WBL Workshop 5 (Interview Skills)

In the workshop, I did a mock interview in which I was interviewed. I spoke about my skills and interests while developing my soft skills. The most important points of this workshop are that you have to present yourself in a meaningful way to the interviewer. Another important point is that you have to have good body posture and movements while doing the interview.  These skills are important to a web designer when getting or applying for a job or internship.

SAP Field Trip Reflection Journal

Today on 3/7/19, I had a field trip with my web design class to SAP in New York City, Manhattan. My web design class and I went to that field trip to work on our create task and get advice from professionals so that we could improve ourselves as programmers. Once we got into the building, we set up our laptops and began to work on our create task, a computer science college exam. After we got pizza for lunch, we listened to some lectures from the the staff that worked in the building. They were talking about design thinking and sci-fi thinking. For design thinking, they encouraged outlandish and extravagant ideas that should be built upon one after the other. The staff also discussed the iterative process of design and how to start designing. For sci-fi thinking, they encouraged the class to think about the future and what could be invented in the future. The staff wanted each and every one of us to think of an innovation that could be invented, the availability of the innovation or its components, and the demand for the innovation. Also, they talked about their lives and how it impacted their lives. They took some questions and answered it in a lengthy manner. After the lectures, we got back to the create task or ate more pizza. After a while, we went back to school to go home.

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G4C Disrupt Aging Game Jam

Today, I developed a game with my teammates for the Games 4 Change Disrupt Aging Game Jam. Now first off, I got of the train station and went to the game jam. When the game jam started, my teammates and I started to brainstorm ideas for the game. We brainstormed ideas related to the idea of aging and what aging is going to mean in the future. My teammates and I reached a conclusion that we were going to make a trivia game that makes the player guess the age based on the person in the picture. Secondly, my teammates and I got to work right after, using Code.org's App Lab. We first worked on the art and U.I. elements of the game. my teammates and I dragged and dropped buttons, text, and image elements onto the screens of the game, in which we made more than 10 screens. Secondly, we copied image addresses from images of people from various websites to paste it onto the image elements to make the people appear inside the images. Thirdly, my teammates and I named the IDs of the elements. Then my teammates and I inserted code and programmed the game  to make the website functional. We just finished in time before the game jam ended. my teammates and I presented our game and got positive reception for the game. Finally, we left the building after the game jam ended. Knowing how to build games is useful for a web designer because it allows the to do their job more effectively and efficiently with the benefit of to be able to make a gaming website.

Game: https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/Ndqm9Iqi1Zdt7oq4tI5ytJr5mheqjIyAT6RFwuxem08

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