Cheat Sheet

Today everybody has been given a quest to complete. That is the cheat sheet. We have all been assigned to re-create a photoshop job that Boss has done a tutorial of how to do. I have re-created this with my own images and I am excited to show you it.

The image below is what Boss assigned us. I have worked on it all period, I am not familiar with photoshop, but this tutorial helped me greatly get around just some of the cool features of this application. Boss also asked us to paste our notes here, so here they are:

Photoshop

F to get out of ugly mode
Revert is to get back to last saved state
Be on layer of one of images, CMD C CMD N
CMD D to deselect
OPT CMD I gives resolution and size
OPT CMD C add 70px squared (140 px)
Make BCKGR black and white with OPT DEL and SHFT OPT DEL
Select all four images with CMD SHFT CLICK

Illustrator

Black Arrow tool is best tool
Double clicking with certain tools brings up size question
Double clicking on actual tool sometimes brings options of tool
When drawing with the pencil tool, the line may change when intersecting a highlighted line
When merging a live paint tool with a dead one, use edit > live paint > merge
hold SHFT when re-sizing in order to prevent stretching the pizza
SHT click highlights multiple items at once

Code

Javascript

Variable

var name = assignment;

PHP

Variable

$ name = assignment;

Adobe Spark Test

I have received my first direct quest from the boss meant especially for coders! Even though Adobe Spark was entirely meant to edit pictures and create cool quotes with pictures to glorify them.

Anyways, I've made a really cool glorified quote as well, there was a link to it, or you can just look down a bit and it'll smack ya in the face.

I guess this quote was my best attempt at saying something wise as it is the only category that I have explored the most in my teenager life. I actually, "understand" women a lot more than anyone else I've met other than any adults, but when it comes down to things, they only want love and affection. I'm straying off topic, the true meaning to this half-butted quote was to describe that when there are good times, there follows bad times. When there is glory there follows defeat. Where there is love, there follows hatred.

Ah, but not the hatred that you may first think of, the hatred is not two brothers clashing each other for the last pizza, or two warriors fighting for a princess of another castle because it always seems like it's the right one, or not even two sisters fighting over a man. It's something deeper. Something that I cannot even explain on my own but I will try my best doing that for the sake of my grade in this class. (Just kidding!)

When you love. there are more than love surrounding your emotions. There comes curiosity, wonder, anxiety, hatred as previously referred to, and once in a while, complete, and utterly crude love. You begin to question, "how long will I feel like this for her, him"? You begin to wonder, "is there really another better off for me?", you begin to worry, "has there been another meant to be better off for me?", you begin to plot, "this can't be right... There has to be another... Somewhere...", and in fact not as rare as it may seem, but you will eventually begin to realize, "She/He is the one." You begin to see what has been laid upon you, you realize the great weight of your current possessions and then glorify what you have for all that it is worth because you have finally realized, through a lot of backwards thoughts and weird imaginations, that he/she has actually been giving you their all. They have been living everyday since you've met them for you. You've realized the air they breath is for you. So you decide. With Love Follows Hate. With hate, follows sanctuary.

Wisdom

Grow. Learn. Change. Adapt. Become.

Growth VS. Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset

My mindset is entirely growth. I am glad, relieved, and grateful for having this type of mindset, for I can learn to code and use lots of coding languages, despite the increase of difficulty when I learn a new language. My mindset can allow me to try twice as hard after my first failure. I don't think I would be able to finish the table rubric if i had not this potential of a mindset.

To be me, I must try hard. Tell me I try, tell me I'm trying too hard, tell me I'm giving too much of an effort. Tell me these things because that's who I am, and if I cannot be who I am without somebody reminding me that it is, then I don't think it is worth doing what I love. If I cannot be the person I love, then I find no value in trying.

We're detouring from the main topic, I'm sorry, what I'm trying to talk about is my mindset! When I fail, I don't give up and abandon my goals, because how much do you really want to complete your goals, if you give up on the first failure? That's not much determination in my eyes.

For a goal that I wish to accomplish, for example, to live in the suburbs with a fine amount of money doing the job that I would love, I have to produce enough determination, and perseverance. Despite all the detouring and failures, I will keep going, no matter what people say, and how others have completely failed. My goals reflect my future life, and I do not plan on wasting the time I have now to abandon my opportunities.

This is the trait I have that I most value, and embrace.

The growth mindset is me. Nothing from the fixed mindset represents me as a part, or a whole. The growth mindset is again, what i am, and what I'm proud of. Others success inspires me to try harder, and others failure does the same.

Perfect Kern - Fontstruct

Perfect Kern

As part of the Spring Break week, I've created a font perfect for kerning! I made this font thanks to a website known as Fontstruct, provided by the Spring Break 411 page at the MacLab. This font sports a decent squared theme that would perfect the problematic corner of design known as kerning. The name of this font is purposely named Perfect Kern.

I spent a couple days creating this font, and perfecting it. I had the most trouble with V, X, and Z. The slants in these letters gave me a wash down since I'm fresh beginner with Fontstruct.

2026 Insight and Ponder

In Ten Years

Please watch this video to understand the purpose of this posts ponder.

In ten years, the first world problems of today might be known as the past world problems. With the new equipment provided for deaf people, this innovation will bridge to possible sixth senses provided by humanity and it's advancements ourselves.

Mother Earth gave us the tools, our brains, and a world of discoveries and inventions. It's our job to uncover hidden advancements for human flourishment. We have a time limit, and within that time, we will create technology that will end all conflict, provide peace, and unity for all humans. Overpopulation will cease, hunger will cease, planets will be waiting for our arrival, and humans will be known universally.

These advancements may or may not come in ten years, but with the progression of tech along these last ten years, a double of these innovations my take place in the next ten years, or a triple, nobody knows, until we come up with a time machine that it.

As a ponder, I think that we will have robots replaces fruitless jobs such as truck drivers, mail deliveries, servants, cooks, maids, drive-thru workers, fast food workers in general, and others. Mindless job space will be stripped from the unconcentrated humans, and jobs that will actually test their potential will be the only open jobs.

The world where people use a mindless job for money will end, and real jobs that would utilize their boat smarts will set their efforts along a purposeful line of greatness that benefits others.

This is my accusation of the futures advancements in ten years, even though it will never be complete, the ten years that unfolds from today on will prove me right or wrong, or future teller. Then all the useless space takers will be wiped away and the ones who matter will flourish, kind of like a totalitarian state, without the constant citizen monitoring.

5 Stages to the Creative Process

First Insight:

When I was in 8th grade,I wanted to learn how to code. So, my friend, Hunter, recommended to my friends and I that we joined a class called digital arts. At first, I was confused because digital arts didn't quite sound like a coding class, but when I tried it in 9th grade, I was sure amazed.

We had so many opportunities for a future in the technological field that I was overwhelmed. The first thing I began was to gain some loot to join a guild. While doing this, I worked up my designing talent in Adobe Illustrator. I love Adobe Illustrator. I've become so talented at it that my fellow peers seem to be amazed, and even jealous of my skill.

This kind of fame has infected me will the desire to become a great graphic designer! With the coding dream put at a hold, I spent a little more time than I had meant for creating amazing works in Adobe Illustrator. All these works are documented in my 9th grade MacLab site.

Eventually, I've realized that coding would be a greater destination for my future, and I kick started Unity, and some programmer tutorials to assist me on my first attempt towards creating a working game. This was however not so successful, because all I was doing in those videos, being my young freshman self, was pretty much copying, and pasting what the tutorials offered.

After a year of tasting what the MacLab has to provide us education hungry students, I yearned for more. For my next year in the MacLab, this year, I finally began working hard towards my goal of a computer programming genius using better tutorials, and actually making an effort to absorb the information provided for me so I could use it on my own without a reference.

Saturation

My inspiration was growing. The more I learned, the more interested and excited I became. Eventually, I finished learning about xHTML, and CSS, so I decided to move on to JavaScript. JavaScript will probably be the most difficult language I have ever, and will ever come across. It's almost like learning an extremely harder version of English.

Despite the difficulty, my inspiration continued to grow. The complexity only gave me more passion towards reaching my goal. I was determined to achieve the peak of my dreams.

Incubation

I received a project meant to give a Library's Book reliability for a book project life. The goal was to make a box display a number, and have a color segregate it from the rest of the boxes. The boxes determined the reliability of the book under separate categories. I've began working on this project, and as I was, I've realized that the creativity of the right side of my brain was itching for some impressive alterations!

Even since the only requirement for this project was functionality, I wanted to take it a step further. The right side of my brain desired a totally new look, a look that was alienated from the rest of the class. A look that was fantastic, and that my right brain could look upon and smile. So, the only thing to do, was to add intriguing colors, as well as a smooth functionality.

Ah-ha!

I am still working because after I've reached my Ah-ha! moment, I've decided to take it another 10%. I've changed the color schemes, altered the selective programs, and now, I've been working for a way to dust the dirty grime between success, and pro-success!

Verification

The extra 10% in still under process. I have so far, the printing of the numbers on the left, and the colors. I am very excited to say that since I've got these mechanics to successfully work, Now I just have to link the numbers with my previous code and submit it for my finished product!

Reflection

The 5 Stages to the Creative Process all resonates throughout one's goal to achieve greatness. The First Insight brings inspiration, and great desire. Saturation brings the strength to keep you inspiration alive, the desire to be the great warrior you yearned since day one of the first insight. Incubation brings the tough load of work to penetrate through and provide proof of resilience, this is a crucial stage to really brighten your desire to be what you love.

Ah-ha! strips the determined and passionate, from the tainted and un-interested. The accomplishment of achieving one's goal is gratifying. The desire to have better would soon spark, and if you have what it takes, the ones who will see the sun behind the clouds will be alienated. Finally, verification. This stage is the final one, it's resonation is the greatest. If the will to provide a perfect product filled with the heart of a determined worker is present, then the work will be purified by the love of it's artist. This stage truly separates the great from the greatest, and I personally think that I am one of those people.