Saturday, August 31, 2013
August
This August has been a pretty long month, filled with all the complications of starting school again. I have now found out that I am going to be at school till 4:30 pm EVERY SINGLE WEEKDAY. That is going to be really hard to figure out how to schedule around. Not to mention due to my last minute mentor change, I still have even more work to do. Lately in preparation for my programming mentorship, and just because I like to, I've been playing around on ubuntu server. So far I have a VPN, and SSH server running, and a few other various programs such as webmin, which is used to manage the previously mentioned servers. I have started the Interview with my mentor, and found out a few of the programming languages that we will be using, such as cache, and I am familiar with not a single one. Once the mentorship begins, I hope to learn a great deal of the language. He also showed me an extremely cool website where the take the song 99 bottles of beer on the wall, and write a program to type it in over 1500 programming languages. it has to be one of the coolest things ive seen. (http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/).
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Blog 4: Interview Preparation
Content:
1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?
I plan to interview Richard Hartlein because he is my mentor and an expert in the programming field.
2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask? Ask open-ended questions. What are open-ended questions? Click here! If that doesn't help, try this one. Click here!
I plan to ask:
What level of education is needed to succeed in this field?
What is the job market like?
What ROP programs do you recommend?
What ways can I practice my programming skills?
What programming skills are worth practicing and what aren't?
1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?
I plan to interview Richard Hartlein because he is my mentor and an expert in the programming field.
2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask? Ask open-ended questions. What are open-ended questions? Click here! If that doesn't help, try this one. Click here!
I plan to ask:
What level of education is needed to succeed in this field?
What is the job market like?
What ROP programs do you recommend?
What ways can I practice my programming skills?
What programming skills are worth practicing and what aren't?
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Blog 3: Topic Choice and Semester 1 ESLR Goals
1. List your topic here:
IT or Nursing
2. What do you plan to do this year to show growth in each of the ESLRs? Be specific and use an example. Examples can come from senior project, model assembly, core, and/or participation in senior class, ASB or other organizations on campus (clubs etc).
Effective Learner: I plan to use class time much more efficiently to finish classwork and homework, that way I have time to work on other things such as the AP calculus course and applications for college.
Effective Communicator: I plan to stop having as many outbursts during class and listen more during lectures. Also I plan to be less hyper, so i can be more professional.
Effective User of Technology: I plan to learn more about information gathering techniques such as the cal poly database and my local library. Also I plan to use my knowledge of technology to create an engaging senior presentation.
Effective Ipoly Citizen: I will make a point to be late as little as possible and minimize trips to the bathroom during class out of respect for the teachers, and to maximize my learning at Ipoly. Also I will do my best to give every senior that I work with a fresh slate and not judge them by past performance.
IT or Nursing
2. What do you plan to do this year to show growth in each of the ESLRs? Be specific and use an example. Examples can come from senior project, model assembly, core, and/or participation in senior class, ASB or other organizations on campus (clubs etc).
Effective Learner: I plan to use class time much more efficiently to finish classwork and homework, that way I have time to work on other things such as the AP calculus course and applications for college.
Effective Communicator: I plan to stop having as many outbursts during class and listen more during lectures. Also I plan to be less hyper, so i can be more professional.
Effective User of Technology: I plan to learn more about information gathering techniques such as the cal poly database and my local library. Also I plan to use my knowledge of technology to create an engaging senior presentation.
Effective Ipoly Citizen: I will make a point to be late as little as possible and minimize trips to the bathroom during class out of respect for the teachers, and to maximize my learning at Ipoly. Also I will do my best to give every senior that I work with a fresh slate and not judge them by past performance.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Summer Mentorship Component
Literal:
1. (Know) Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aibi1noNRs3wdHl2OVBBVUhGVzc3alg2X0hwMVdrWUE&usp=sharing
2. Contact Name & Number
Gordon Borneman
(909) 986-0410
3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.
About how long does it take to make a casting?
What steps other than the molding and pouring go into the creation of the casting?
How many people contribute to each casting?
Interpretive:
4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
A better understanding of what it means to work hard. Because i always thought that working hard on school and desk work was hard, but there are jobs that require you to work much harder both physically and mentally, and that sometimes, schooling isn't enough. It takes real life experience to teach certain topics such as problem solving.
Applied:
5. How did what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.
What I did with Alumalloy was just a topic that i was interested in, due to some of the cool parts they make like airplane parts or missile parts, but I doubt that I will pursue it as my senior topic, because it isn't quite as interesting as i believed it to be.
1. (Know) Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aibi1noNRs3wdHl2OVBBVUhGVzc3alg2X0hwMVdrWUE&usp=sharing
2. Contact Name & Number
Gordon Borneman
(909) 986-0410
3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.
About how long does it take to make a casting?
What steps other than the molding and pouring go into the creation of the casting?
How many people contribute to each casting?
Interpretive:
4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
A better understanding of what it means to work hard. Because i always thought that working hard on school and desk work was hard, but there are jobs that require you to work much harder both physically and mentally, and that sometimes, schooling isn't enough. It takes real life experience to teach certain topics such as problem solving.
Applied:
5. How did what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.
What I did with Alumalloy was just a topic that i was interested in, due to some of the cool parts they make like airplane parts or missile parts, but I doubt that I will pursue it as my senior topic, because it isn't quite as interesting as i believed it to be.
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