Thursday, January 16, 2014

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1.  How can a computer programmer best create a program designed to teach kindergarteners problem solving?
2. What coding language do you believe would be simplest to understand for them, or should we use SCRATCH, etc. where they are made for the young children?
3. Would visuals or real syntax be more effective, why?
4. What classes should this programing integrate with? Math, all core, etc. and why?
5. What aspects of the program will be the most important, simplicity, visuals, etc and why? 
6. Who else should I talk with about this topic? teachers? Children? and what questions should be asked?
7. Do you believe that adding programming into curriculum will allow our students to be more prepared for the world? If so, in what ways?
8. How will the teachers teach this topic?
9. In what ways can we design a program to increase student interaction?
10. Would kindergarden be the best grade to begin implementttion

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
My mentors house, he works from home, but the company is called State Collections.
2.   Who is your contact?
Richard Hartlein
3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?   
44.83
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
I worked with a telnet prompt and with the vb.net language and created programs and queries and the such for databases.
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it.  
posted in sheet previously.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Blog 10: Senior Project: The Holiday

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?

This wasn't specifically for my senior project, but over the break I had to set up parental controls for my brother's computer. In the process of setting these up, I realized there was no white list (allow list) for the windows user account control (UAC)  There were a few programs on my brothers computer that we wanted him to be able to use that windows blocked, so rather than having to type the administrator password every time he used a program, I created a program to do it for me. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

The time it takes to create "simple" programs, all because of the time it takes to learn all aspects of the code behind it. The source of what I learned stemmed from the 5 hours that it took to write 16 functional lines of code. 

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

Probably my mentor just to see a programmers viewpoint, and also teachers and parents to see the viewpoints of those who work with young children to see what they believe would work.