1516 Year of Greatness

Table of Contents

		Week 36	Week 35	Week 34	Week 33	Week 32	Week 31
Week 30	Week 29	Week 28	Week 27	SB Week	Week 26	Week 25	Week 24
Week 23	Week 22	Week 21	Week 20	Week 19	Weeks 14-18	Week 13	Weeks 1-11

Week 36

Progress

This week in week 36, I have continued working on the vidoes for php, due to the comlpexity of php of the videos.

I have returned the number of videos I must watched to five, ten is now impossible within 5 hours.

There is now different aspects of writing text that I did not expect. That is only expected for more experienced coders though, for its 200 video capacity.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned about including and requiring other files of php into the primary php file. The attribute names for this is Include and Require. :D

With this, I can make as many variables as I wish on a single page, then link it to the one that I am working with them on, in order to keep the page clean, and concise.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that with the goal alternation, I have achieved a great victory this week. The grade of all grades shall judge me willingly today.

With full honor and devotion, the A grade has stepped up th=o the batting plate and hit me another home run declared by the spectating Rubric of Judgment.

Week 35 Goal Reflection

This week, I technically have not completed my goal, but as soon as I have realized that completing the goal would be impossible, I set a new one to make sure that I at least kept tabs upon learning as much as I possibly can with a goal set for myself to challenge.

Week 36 Goal

For this week, my new goal to set for next week is to watch at least five videos, and to really challenge myself, watch seven.

This will be extremely hard including the new aspects of the videos there are, but the only portion of the goal that will really matter is the five videos, in order to keep me from rushing to beat the goal, and not learn much from them.

Week 35

Progress

This week in week 35, I have continued working on learning php.

I have continued to the 40's of the tutorial list. I plan on continuing on leaning at least 10 videos per week.

I will now declare that watching at least 10 tutorial videos each week is requisite to reach my goal upon earning an A grade on each weekly.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned global variable, and basic functions. This of course is also not new to me, for i have run throughout the same factors in javascript.

I have now confirmed that it is easier to learn another language of coding after learning your first one. I think that php will be useful for only a select few amount of it's perks.

Some things in javascript are easier to do in php, and only accessible in php, but there are very few of these attributes.

Self Assessment

This week, I feel that I have achieved my goal of ten videos per week, and am proud to claim that I have earned my goals appreciation.

This week, I have retained an A grade from the Rubric of Judgment. I am glad that I have been keeping tabs with these factors.

Week 34 Goal Reflection

I have achieved my goal from week 34. I have learned some new things in php, and have reached the ten videos that I was unsure of accomplishing the first time through.

Week 35 Goal

I have the same goal as week 33 and 34 as I do this week. Learn something new in php, and a new goal of watch at least ten videos is confirmed as of now to be required.

Week 34

Progress

This week in week 34, I have continued learning php.

I have learned the same content that I was taught while learning Javascript, except in a different language.

Despite this, I have reviewed switch case statements, and for, do while, and while loops, which are tools from javascript that I wasn't too sure on how to use.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, As I have said before, I have only been reviewing this week, but I have been refreshed upon how to use switch case, and for, while, and do while loops.

I believe that I could be able to use these now for any occasion represented to me through a certain task as I continue to code as my career.

Self Assessment

This week, this week I believe that I have succeeded in accomplishing my goals, and learning to use old tricks in new ways.

With this at hand, the Rubric of Judgment is very able to pass me an A grade upon this weeks successes.

Week 33 Goal Reflection

I believe that I have accomplished week 33's goals for this week. I am proud to say that i am finishing the end of the year off with a big bang.

Week 34 Goal

This week's goals will be the same as week 33. Except I think that I will add a goal, I am unsure on how it will go for next week though, because I might not be able to accomplish it.

I plan on adding a goal that insists on myself to watch at least ten videos per week.

Week 33

Progress

This week in week 33, I have officailly began learning php. My second serious coding language.

I am unsure of that it would be easier than my first language. I think that it will but I cannot be too sure until i have reaches at least a large enough amount of videos to determine that.

At this, I will pursue learning this language as much as I can. I plan on reviewing statements that I was still unsure of how to use in javascript itself.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, so far have only been reviewing the simple tactics of php as it was in javascript if it were my second language. This consists of variables, and if/else statements.

So far is has been easier than the previous language. Though this may be true, I still cannot be sure about the future videos, therefore I cannot have the full answer to this queery.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that I have achieved the glory that is the grade of success.

"I am proud to bestow upon you, FaverosGema, an A grade presented to you by the Rubric of Judgment itself."

Week 32 Goal Reflection

I have not completed my goal from last week, simply because I have abandoned that project for now, but it will be remaining in my slip of projects which have yet to be made.

Week 33 Goal

for my week 33 goal, I have set to learn all about php for next week. I demand myself to learn this language to the end of it's offers, and use it for my own benefit at any costs.

Week 32

Progress

This week in week 32, I have run into a huge superior brick wall.

It is a sad day, for the coding community. As I splice and place and take away and give and read and write, I am splicing variables that I do not wish to splice. And there seems to be now way to work around this.

For say, tiles 1-9 are 1-9. Each tile is a specific name in an array. Tile 1 = Aleph, Tile 2 = Bet, Tile 3 = Gimmel, Tile 4 = Dalet Tile 5 = Hei, Tile 6 = Vav, Tile 7 = Zayin, Tile 8 = Het, and Tile 9 = Tet.

Whenever Tile 2 is clicked, Bet is spliced. If I were to click Tile 6, which is Vav, then it would not splice Vav. Instead, it would splice Zayin. The seventh in the array. This is because the array only holds 1, and 3-9, which offsets 3-9 by one number to the left. so 3 becomes 2, 4 becomes 3, and so on.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have become flexible around arrays, random number generators, and setting background images under the occasion of a positive value search.

I have learned random number generations again from W3Schools. My theory upon using this feature a lot in the future has so on been true to me.

Self Assessment

This week, along with becoming more flexible around arrays, and random number generators, and how the syntax is required to be made as, I have also not mention for loops, and other attributes in javascript that is imperative for me to learn of.

Since whenever I remember that I still have lots of things to learn about is javscript, and become excited about them, I believe that I have definitely achieved the grading that the Rubric of Judgment will be glad to hand over to me. Or better known as an A. ;p

Week 31 Goal Reflection

This week, although I have not completed my goal, my universal goal set about a month ago is still being completed every day. I am still learning of javaScript, and using the techniques to my advantage at every corner I see them useful in.

This is proof enough that the goal I have been trying to complete is definitely at ease this week.

Week 32 Goal

As for my goal this week, I believe that jumping this wall will be either impossible or incredibly difficult if I wish to keep using Arrays.

With this considered, my goal will be to breach this obstacle while still using arrays and clear the dust, as I complete the Tic-Tac-Uh-Oh game.

Week 31

Progress

This week in week 31, I have craeted a new game with Boss called Tic-Tac-Uh-Oh! This game is the regular tic-tac-toe, with a little bit of randomness featured within it.

Whenever you click a tile to have an 'X' or an 'O', you have a 2/3 chance to receive that X or O in the tile you've chosen. If you are however unlucky, the game will choose the location of all 9 tiles where to place it.

In this incident, you will have a one in 9 chance of receiving your desired tile.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned a lot about tables incorporating Id's, number reading after giving and receiving num values, arrays, and variable placement.

I have learned about arrays at W3Schools. I feel that I have accomplished this weeks goal already, for I have learned new techniques and vital portions of JavaScript, I am now comfortable with my grade options.

Self Assessment

This week, I have learned many new techniques, and used them in ways I never imagined I'd be able to do in a year's time.

I find this absolutely pleasing, for my purpose upon embarking on these projects is to get me more comfortable and flexible around JavaScript.

Due to this, the Rubric of Judgment has decided to pass an A grade to me with honor.

Week 30 Goal Reflection

This week, as I have mentioned before, this weeks goal has been met, and beat down. Partially.

I have not attended to the CSS animation that I have ben longing to learn of how to do, but I have began a new project in the process, which I have said was entirely possible.

Ever since watching Bucky's videos, I have been curious about arrays, but unsure of how to use them. In this game however, I have began using them, including their own techniques such as .splice, or .length, or even .concat. This is hard proof that the goal has been met with, and dealt with.

Week 31 Goal

For next week, I wish to complete the Tic-Tac-Uh-Oh game so that I can prestige my ranking as a beginner and move into semi-normal-beginning-mediocre-good-but-not-really-coder. (Yeah there are rankings of how good you are, I made them up just now.)

This means I will pursue my dream to level up into a higher coding tier, by completing the Tic-Tac-Toe project.

Week 30

Progress

This week in week 30, I have continued practicing JavaScript in the same project of which I do not have a direct goal in.

I have created a random block of red generator for the game to become a little more of a game. the purpose of this addition is to have the player re-color this box black with the least amount of moves possible.

Moves are calculated as how many times you click to create a black box.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned how to create a random number generator. By using this random number generator, I have tied the numbers to the 100 boxes within the game. This way, whatever number pops up, makes the box with that same number red.

I have learned this great tool of education from W3Schools. I plan to use this technique for random generation for a lot of my projects in the future.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that I have made a lot of progress upon practicing my JavaScript writing skills. I have learned new techniques, embarked on new desires for education, and prospered upon creating a working program.

Due to these advancements, I believe that I have definitely achieved my goal for the Rubric of Judgment to pass an A grade to me with honor, and dedication.

Week 29 Goal Reflection

This week, I have indeed complete my goal for advancing in my mastery for JavaScript.

Along with learning new techniques, I plan to use these techniques in other programs that help me practice that very same technique to mastery, to further nail that aspect of JavaScript into my writing tools, or hands.

Week 30 Goal

For week 30, I have added another goal onto the agenda. Along with practicing JavaScript, I'd like to add that I would love to learn to animate with CSS.

With this aspect of advancement within my fingers, I can create programs out of scratch that are both amazing and impressive.

Week 29

Progress

This week in Week 29, I have continued working on practicing JavaScript. As expected, I've stumped on a pothole. If I had not attempted this project, then I would have fell upon it on an important project, and spend loads of precious time trying to find a resolve for it.

That is not ideal. As a result, my goal for this week will have it's entirety of this pothole involved within it. To describe the terms of pothole in my situation, I seem to have the "Right" column add ons to work, but "Down" doesn't seem to want to work.

I still have no direct goal for this project other than practicing my javascript writing capabilities. I guess that I could try to spawn a random point and have the player use the least amount of tiles to reach that point with a record keeper.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned the correct way to use .classList.add and .remove. It seems that in CSS, #Id is for Ids, and .class is for classes. I was confused between the two, and used # for classes. and . for ids.

This was a minor break down, but I've defined the problem and attacked it by it's weakness. Analogy. I still think that I need to give Forest Hoffman credit for teaching me this technique for coloring objects. I used to use .style.background, but eventually I've run into a wall with that and couldn't use it.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that I have definitely achieved my goal starting from week 25. I have solved some ghost holes in my JavaScript practice, and ran into big ones that I am still currently deciphering.

I consider this project the safe haven of my projects, the project that will save me from time consuming google-fuing.

For week 29, I have met my requisite effort to achieve victory. The rubric of judgment delivers another glorious A for my efforts.

Week 28 Goal Reflection

As for my permanent goal set from week 28, I have promised as well that I will practice JavaScript for the time being, until an abrupt projects balancing out the imperative factor of this projects makes an appearance.

Week 29 Goal

At this regard, I have completed my goal from week 28, and as stated twice before, I will keep up this goal for the rest of the year if I must.

Week 28

Progress

This week in week 28, I have began creating a mini game for my blog, it will be a game where you click the markers named Right, and Down, where the color in the tabs in the middle with no name will be colored due to the given clicked box that is named.

For example, if you click right three times, the nearest box and it's neighbor to it's direct right, as well at that box's right neighbor, will all turn black. The same principle belongs to the Down tab, except the colored boxes will follow downwards.

However, I have run into a coloring problem, despite being able to color boxes according to the previous project, the table rubric, I cannot seem to color the boxes based upon their number, even when I give it a number. I am currently deciphering this problem.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned that I can alter another objects properties by interacting with a separate object. This would allow me to further progress in my project.

I have realized this tool on y own accord, therefore I shall not link to another source.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that my goal to achieve my further progression should qualify as another great week of grading. My desire to master Javascript seems to be the only bridge to keep my promise. With this, I shall try harder next week for more of a save.

According my my own self assessment, and self gratitude, I have received another A grade from the grading rubric classifying it as You gave it your all.

Week 27 Goal Reflection

This week I believe that I have not achieved my week 27 goal, but rather set a new one instead, and began to achieve that goal with a part accomplishment. I am still in the progress of mastering Javascript. I will take years before I can call myself a Javascript master, as much as Forest Hoffman can.

Week 28 Goal

I shall continue to master the art of Javascript. I believe that it will take me a very long time to do this, but it is definitely worth giving this a kick start. Therefore, I believe that this will be my goal for every upcoming week until I decide that another goal overrides this one.

Week 27

In the duration of week 27, I have started working on a way to learn Java, and I decided to cut my options to the best solution and decided to fall back to Bucky's videos on youtube, or thenewboston to be exact. He was the one who's taught me about xHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Also, I've realized a mistake I've made when creating a backup of my work for the Art Project, and I will mention it in the weekly goals portion of this week.

Progress

This week in Week 27, I have brainstormed the possibilities of our progress for the Climate Change challenge. Again, our concept is based off of Plague Inc.

The reason why I am looking for a way to learn Java so quickly is because we are being timed based on our progress for the climate challenge. We don't have much time to create a game, so I will be working hard on learning how to write Java for programming games.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I've began the very basics of learning about Java programming. I could not be more motivated to learn Java than I am now! I would love to learn this language first and foremost compared to any other goals that I have set for myself as of today.

I've started this new stride thanks to the person that I owe it all to so far already. Bucky, the bacon lover from thenewboston. Java is the bridge from success, and my own version of flatliner.

Self Assessment

This week, I think that I have worked hard on setting myself on new guidelines to success, I don't think that a B rated individual would have set new goals, and new obstacles to overcome. I think I have produced enough effort and dedication for another great grade, and another support for my promise.

For this week, I believe that I have honorably earned an A grade, or, You gave it your all. Though I could work on my spelling ;)

Spring break Goal Reflection

I have almost completed my Spring Break goal, I've created 14/15 artist references in the Art Scavenger Hunt quest. I don't know where the last reference went, but I look forward to re-inserting that reference into the progress that I've made so far, and being able to completely upload them all and claim my bonus.

As a contrary, I still have not been able to finish the GitHub tutorial video that Forest has uploaded for us coders. I am confused as to what applications I need to download to be able to follow the video.

Week 27 Goal

My goal for this week is to finish the GitHub tutorial video, and begin learning Java programming. I wish to be able to code in Unity, and hopefully other superior gaming engines to further strengthen my hold on gaming prosperity.

Spring Break Week

As part of the Spring Break week, I've worked on many quests provided in the Spring Break 411! I've watched a few TED talks about the new world, the amazing potential and benefits of a sixth sense, or a connection between technology and the whysical world, and the humorous design contrasts from past then, experienced by a speaker, and examples of intriguing public designs.

Progress

This week in Spring Break, I have completed many Spring Break quessts that provide lots of loot. I have created a font, watched a few TED talks, and documented it all.

I am most proud of creating a font that will ease kerning for designers, and OCD infected viewers, and critics. It is called, Perfect Kern. I've tried to perfect it a little more, to make some letters fit in with the rest a little more, but I'm not experienced enough to do so. Yet, it looks okay.

The TED talks have astonished me. The sixth sense is near, the color spectrum is only a tiptoe from expand vision, and human exploration will tredge different heights, as technology sides with us more than it has ever has.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I learned a lot about TED talks, the Spring Break quests that were provided to us by Boss.

I learned, and agreed with the TED talk that complained how creativity was being beaten away from children as they were told to sit behind a desk and be quiet as they were being shoveled simple math equations into their joyous minds.

Self Assessment

This week, I believe that I would have received another great grade, if my easter was not so jam packed with celebration and family visits. I was caught up in the celebration, and feasting, therefore, I do not deserve the grade I wish I could receive for the Spring Break Week.

As a self-assurance, Spring Break Week will not be included in the promise that I;ve declared in week 25. I believe that I deserve a B grade this week, or, Great, but...

Week 26 Goal Reflection

I still have not completed Forest's Github tutorial quest, confusion has spurred for the applications that are required for it.

Week 27 Goal

I hope to be able to complete Forest's Github tutorial for my online coding resume. Also, if I am still having problems, I hope to be able to submit my Art Scavenger hunt findings to the quest page, and document it.

Week 26

This week in Week 26, I've began working on the Bonus/Bogus Mechanics quest. Here, I prove my understanding of our responsibility, integrity, and self control when given power.

Power

each student is given the power to collect a specific amount of loot depending on their effort for the given assignment. A complete reflection of what these choices may look like this. For an A, they must give the assignment their all. That's not very hard, you just have to create the requisite work, polish it up, and pour some heart into it. That's all it takes, the assignments aren't usually that difficult.

For Are You Kidding Me?, you must accept this assignment, doing little to none work at all on it, and claim the you gave it your all loot. This never turns out a good cash in, for Boss always smites one who wishes to cheat the game on system.

Responsibility

Currently, Boss is working for a change in schooling for the better. So far, he has changed the views of many: Teachers, Adobe Education Leaders, and even school executives. He has come a long way, and now, he is depending on us to provide living proof that his ideal schooling system is more efficient for future students.

A huge responsibility has been laid upon us: Documentation. We must actually work hard for our goals, and document every strand and string of it in order to prove to those education leaders that Boss is right. The way education is provided for us youngsters is broken, and if we wish for it to be as efficient as it can possibly be, then it is up to the students of the MacLab to make that possible.

So far, not many people in the MacLab that I'm aware of have noticed of this change. Most of the people who have entered the MacLab just wish for an easy A by sliding on by the year toying with the provided internet access and taking of important space. I find this enraging, but eventually, I hope they too, see the importance of our situation, and begin working for purpose, and with responsibility.

Progress

This week in Week 26, The completion of the table rubric has been achieved. I don't think that I will make the last reward for the table rubric completion, so I will regard that opportunity, and plan for my next quest.

Gam3K1ing, Salivas, and I plan to create a game for the Climate Change challenge introduced to us Thursday. The plan so far is to take a route similar to Plague Inc.

Rather than annihilating the human population however, we plan to encourage the player to save humanity from natural disasters. The player will have to multi-task their attention from agricultural production and predicting the affected point of a natural disaster that may or may not take place on shore.

Heeded tools of Education

This week, I have learned, and mastered, the uses of Id's, and classes in xHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I have learned these valuable skills from Forest Hoffman. His GitHub site is a source for my future education. His name will again be mentioned in my new goal.

Self Assessment

This week, I have produced enough effort to be proud of this week as well. I plan to keep us my effort for every project that walks upon my direction. I will give each project my undivided attention, from last week on. This week supports that claim, and I plan to support it more in the future.

I think that I have set an effort equivalent to the grading rubrics diction known as You Gave it your All: A

Week 25 Goal Reflection

I have completed the table rubric at an extent that I am capable of for a periodic time. I have also found my fifteenth artist reference for the Art Scavenger Hunt quest we've been challenged. The piece is known as The Smiling Spider.

Spring Break Week Goal

My goal for this week and Spring Break is to learn how to setup GitHub for my own purpose. Forest will be the host of this tutorial, and I look forward to setting up my online resume for my future jobs to consider me more of a professional rather than an amature.

Week 25

This week in Week 25, we've received a new means of documenting our progress for each week. The Weeklys' all require a header in front of each section corresponding with the information given between each break line.

Meaning we have to organize it better for hunters to search for bogus blogs.

I will be altering the actual desired way for organizing the documentation, and re-organizing it to send those hunters back to their poor huts with an attitude of disappointment.

Progress

This week in Week 25, I've come across a quest that re-introduces the art video that I've watched last year. I find the video interesting, and I'd like to claim the loot provided from the quest.

So far this week, I've only found 14 artist references and their paintings/sculptures. The claiming process is incremented by 5. As each five artists are discovered, the loot drop increases. The maximum amount of artists and their references adds up to 35.

Heeded tools of Education

I feel that my Google-Fu skills have increased slightly while taking on the art scavenger hunt this week. For coders, this is a big thing.

The better we are at searching for answers on google, the more likely we will succeed in finding the answers we desire for solving problems we may come across while coding our projects. I've only discovered the meaning of Google-Fu in the Code is Hard quest on this article documented in Week 23.

Self Assessment

I feel that I have utilized my time for this week well. I feel that if I were to keep this progress up, which I will, then I should be able to continue the streak that I plan on beginning on this week. the streak will be known as the self assessment success.

Rubric Grade: I gave it my all: A

Week 24 Goal Reflection

As for the goal that was assigned from week 24, I have not been able to complete is unfortunately. I have a problem with the class list assigns in the JavaScripting portion of the rubric. I plan to accomplish this goal at MLSS this Saturday.

Week 25 Goal

I plan on being able to accomplish week 24's goal, and to discover my 15th artist reference discovery this weekend or maybe throughout the duration of week 26.

Week 24

This week in Week 24, I've began the Monument Valley quest. I'll be writing another paragraph about my thoughts for the Monument Valley article, alike week 23, this week will have two big paragraphs explaining my opinions and referring to the article.

Also, I'VE COMPLETED THE TABLE RUBRIC!!! I'm very excited to release this news to everyone! I've finished it like I promised in week 24! Heh, I've sorted out the color problem, and I've resolved the math problem last week. Brushing up will be implemented for the remainder of this week. I've already even added an easter egg for a certain number to achieve when judging the selected book ;). I've planned to finish adding a form feel for the table rubric Friday this week, but I've ended up finding tons of prey for hunters and healers! Here art thou food.

So, rather than quickly slaying the table rubric, I will set the rubric for either the remainder of the weekend, or for next week. If I do end up finishing it, then I will work on completing phase IV for the loot quest for completing the table rubric.

Monument Valley Secrets

Monument Valley is a phone game created to show people who despise games that anybody who does play games does not sit in a corner and scream at a device whilst twiddling their thumbs around on a controller. Games are not just people avoiding society and competing for a fruitless task, not every game incorporates violence, and displays mindless play throughs. A LOT of games, including the all new, game of the year Monument Valley. This game was inspired from architecture, and it sports a load of intriguing puzzles for the gamer to complete. This game was designed to reel in non-gamers who view gaming as a negative whole. The accomplishments are extremely rewarding, for the feeling of completion after being stuck on a difficult and confusing level is extravagant. The secrets behind Monument Valley was to treat the player as a genius, not an idiot. The levels had to start out a simple route, and as soon as the player got the hang of the game, the game delivered with extremely difficult levels that bend and twist the gamers mind in new ways. The puzzles are amazing, unique, and intriguing. The character of the game was even designed to be vague, to give the player a sense of questionability. The player could view the character as many aspects of life, the personality was unknown, and it was up to the player to decide what personality the character portrayed. The game even sports a deserving color scheme, which in turn only improves the games flexibility. For the colors are used for twisting the puzzles in different ways as well. The developers incorporated the colors not only to add a sense of life, but to increase the puzzle difficulty. The higher the difficulty, the higher the rewarding feeling can be. I find this game appealing, and i think it would be fun to give the game a try.

Monument Valley Universal Meaning

Monument Vally says a lot to me. It says that I have A LOT to learn about in code. When coding, I don't just use my head to solve problems, I have to extend my mind in order to perfect any solutions, I have to have more than one solution to the same problem, I have to be able to think differently compared to any other coder, I have to be unique. Coding is not meant to be laddered one way, there are unlimited ways to solve a problem, and It's up to me to find what ways I can use to perfect them. There is never only one way. This also goes for the games I wish to create myself, Ken Wong says that, "A short experience may actually be better for a game, perhaps no longer than a movie and with a sense of catharsis at the end..." This may be true for some games, but games that I may create might not have the same philosophy. Ken also said, "Everything you experience in life could be made into a game and expressed in a way that can’t be in a film or a book, and that’s why it’s an exciting time to be designing games." I completely agree with this. The world of design has no limits, people can spend a lifetime designing every strip of grass in their game, or spend 3 nights copying and pasting one model. I ask you, which game would have a better feel for nature? The time well spent game, or the quick, and lazy one? I agree. Maybe spending a lifetime making all that grass isn't the best way to spend your time, but at least the game is revolutionary! Even if all it was was a field of grass and a couple rocks here and there. Either way, you could do anything you want within design. Actually, there is no 'within', the world of design and gaming is bigger than regular people think, we can do anything with designing games, anything we want! And yes, this leads to violence, sex, bad language use, and other negatively flowing video game ethics, but of course, "men and women and boys and girls and LGBT people in the Middle East and China and Brazil—and they’re not just about violence and sex." It's up to the developers to create the kind of games they desire. Ken Wong and his 8-man designer team created Monument Valley and got away with an award. My own team and I hope to reach the same ropes or even higher ropes than Ken Wong and his team. But of course, there is never the greatest contributor of each team, everyone does something of great value for any formed team. I do not see myself in the future doing all or none of the work for a project that we all promised to pitch in together.

Week 23

This week in week 23, I've been clawing through coding quests, earning as much loot, respect, and providing Boss with all the integrity I could produce with my little heart for him. I read the article twice, and to be honest, I'm a little confused on this quest's third request also...

"If you're still willing to stick with it, write a personal response, explaining how you'll cope with the challenges, the frustrations, and the repeated failures.

This time the Boss wants you to refer to the article.

Quote it.

Cite it.

Wrap your head and heart around it.

Document it."

After I complete my thoughts about the article, I'm unsure as to what I should do about the prior quote I provided. Should I continue that request from where I left off in the weekly 23 documentation?

Again, this is just one thing I might have to confront Boss with! I still have confusion circling my mind about GitHub... Aside from this, I will now begin my opinion about the article that I've read twice, yes, I've read this article twice, no lie, as stated above, I try to project as much integrity my little heart can. I take coding seriously, I wish to turn this hobby into a career as Forest is.

Code is Hard

It is. And by my take on this article, (Don't worry Boss, I didn't read a word other than the link! ;)) it just proves the fact that it is. It is stressful, confusing, repetitive, tedious, but lovely, enjoyable, beautiful, and intriguing. I love code. Even though I've only reached the 'Cliff of Confusion' state, and realized the trauma that I will punish myself with, I still persevere. I do this because I've set my sights on my future, I see that my future is filled with complicated equations, references, and tags despite the difficulty that I may be exposing myself with. I continue even after suffering a fatal defeat from AP World because I plan to lay down my passion, time, and effort into code. I plan on turning code into a career, I am determined to live out the rest of my life as a designer, not only a programmer, but a designer. I wish to create magnificent games, glorious websites, and unthinkable achievements to show off to all my friends! Code to me is teaching to the Boss, I just love it to the death of me! Even after realizing that the 'Desert of Despair' awaits me in the near future, it's mighty shadow will not pierce this determined soul, my light shall shine through the darkest pits of despair and clear the skies of it's murky clouds! I was born strange. Whenever I have my sights set on something, I won't let ANYTHING get between me and my goal. Even my parents, but maybe my girlfriend, she's an exception. Anyways, nothing, except my girlfriend, may get in the way of my dreams and I! Plans have already been organized for two projects, or games, to take on with my friends and I. One is named: "Scarlet", and the other, (which is a MAJOR project that I plan to turn into a trilogy): "A Hero's Tale". Both game titles may be altered in the future, I'm still in the early stages with these projects. In the duration of my trudge through the 'Desert of Despair', I plan to learn the basics of creating a game in general. Examples: Math fluency, an in-game shop, audio and video implementations, 3D World scripting, similarities and differences determination between JavaScript and other programming languages I may learn in the future, etc. (There are definitely more things to learn than this, and no one said learning these things via online sources was going to be simple.) Aside from all these walls that were only build to discourage tainted hearts, I plan to rock climb those obstacles as if I was floating over a quarter of it a minute. Don't misunderstand though, I'm not saying that the 'Desert of Despair' can't really be that dreadful, I'm saying nothing in the 'Desert of Despair' will ever bring me to my knees and make me beg for mercy. As stated before, my determination will not be tainted from the inside, the outside, in-between, around, mentally, physically, telepathically, nor universally! Look 'Desert of Despair', just don't mess with my determination. As far as I have trekked in the graph of code difficulty, I'm only in the early stages of the 'Cliff of Confusion'. I have definitely experienced the frustration of the 'Cliff of Confusion', but I was preparing myself even prior of reading this article to challenge the road ahead of thyself. As referred in my opinion post about the change of economy and job demands, I like to visualize my future as the greatest challenger ever to come across my path. No matter what path I may choose, the future will always have something in store for me. And Boss, you asked for a paragraph, so a dreaded block of text nag can't be nailed onto my back this time!

Article Reference

If you're link blind, or ignorant, then click this article link to understand what the previous paragraph, and this next one was and will be describing.

I've pretty much completed the purpose of this paragraph on the previous paragraph besides quoting, citing and of course, re-describing what I'll do about the obstacles in my way. I will not let these walls stop me, I will pursue my dreams no matter the costs, I will not let anything tell me that my goal is a waste, I will not succumb to the ultimacy of the challenges, I will clear the 'Desert of Despair' no matter the costs. I will not lose heart, I will continue to learn new concepts about coding and will push for my future to become true. I'm very resilient, I've played football before, and no matter how hard the hit, I always get back up. I've been knocked dizzy a couple times, and heck, one of my friends literally knocked the snot out of me, but I didn't fall, I didn't slow down, I keep at it and I completed my job. This is because football was my passion, I loved football, it was so much fun. Eventually though, the people around me began showing their true selves, they had no respect for the coaches, they talked back for no good reason, came late to practice with stupid excuses, act all tough and great when they're actually really embarrassing themselves, or they're just complete jerks to all the other players on the team because they're just so dang 'cool'. I know this may contradict my word of not giving into others for my goals, but football was just a sport to play to have fun, and to keep me in shape. please visit The Strive of Today for a complete thought about this topic. "He learned Emacs then Vim and even the Dvorak keyboard layout. He picked up Linux, dabbled in Lisp and coded in Python while living on the command line for more than half a year." This is a quote from the beginning of the article. In my eyes, this person, Quincy, had not known of the article, and learned a ton of languages that may look good on his resume, but might not have any value to him at all. With the thought out plan of the article however, you can be aware of what languages you may need, organize your schedules better, and prepare for a long haul of traumatization, failure, and tears. The differences between using the article to help you prepare for the long haul, vs. unknowingly walking into a death trap is decent, but one way they're similar is the feeling of accomplishment after getting something to work. Plus, using the article as a backbone makes the 'Desert of Despair' a little less 'despair', but rather expected and easier, as emphasized here: "Beware the "Mirages of Mania", like sirens of the desert, which will lead you astray.", here: "You can't learn this stuff in a week or a month or a single college class no matter what anyone says so stop falling for that!", and here: "...with enough perseverance and a good compass, you'll eventually get your first few 'real' projects launched and you'll realize that you're finally starting to get it." The main purpose of this article is to warn anyone who wants to code in the future that the journey isn't as easy as learning Biology. I've wrapped my heart around the previous paragraph, so if anyone skipped to this paragraph, comment why, and please, go read it you lying cheats.
I've also extremely advanced in my table rubric. I've almost solved the math problem we're struggling on. I hope to finish the table rubric next week! c:

Week 22

This week in Week 22, we've continued our progress upon the table rubric project. I plan to use github for my future career. I think github could be great for an online resume for my future career ideas.

I still loathe blogger, so don't get any ideas google. Aside from my hatred, I'm plotting a video game that could end up as a trilogy! First the game in the middle, the prequel, then the sequel.

I really enjoy learning about coding in this class. I began to wonder whether Javascript would be good for a 3D game or not. I'm beginning to think that Java is meant more for programming. I plan on looking into it after I complete my projects. I am still in a hole of debt, so I won't be buying anything to bathe in besides honor to balance out the negativity.

I still hope that next year divi makes a clean return for the justice of our progress.

Week 21

This week in Week 21, we've continued our progress upon the table rubric project. I've learned about accessing different attributes via document.ex.ex().

I believe that this should help me figure out the color conflict that we've been opposing. It should also greatly improve our success rate when coming fourth with the algebra. I believe we can complete this quest if we all continue to pursue completion for it.

We've also been introduced to github. I do not understand it so well myself, so this weekend I look forward on exploring it's potential. I still disagree with the use of blogger. I find it tedious and useless compared to divi of microsoft word when students who don't find any interest in coding attempt blogger.

I hope that next year divi makes a clean return for the justice of our progress.

Week 20:

This week in week 20, I've been working on the table continuously without an end. I have figured out how to print an interaction with the table, but I have yet to be able to allow math operators to deal with the alternation of different cells. I still need to learn how to utilize booleans fluently.

Salivas and Game King are both working on CSS, or a way to color the cells that you've clicked. After they've figured that out, they have to figure out a way for the color to revert back to the color white after they de-select the cell.

I'm also thinking that I may need to create a submit button for the vote for the book to be recorded into the files for the library to actually have to observe. We are slowly arriving to our destination, this project has showed me that I've only "dipped my toes into the water." I look forward to learning more tools to advance my education on this complicated language, Javascript.

I look forward to being able to program video games and create websites with interactive links and buttons with ease. I look forward to a future filled with joyous computer environment.

Week 19:

This week in week 19, we've began working on a project to prove our understanding of the code that we've been trying to learn these past 5 weeks.

Our job is to create an interactive table that prints out a number every time someone clicks on a specific number in one of the cells of the table. There can only be one cell to be highlighted per row, and the printing of the number must be visible.

By following these parameters, I've come up with a form with radio buttons to avoid from selecting multiple buttons on the same row, and it will record every number somebody may select through out the columns. This is one of the post's that I'm writing in html. Every post from here on out will be writ in html and maybe even javascript.

Weeks 14-18

The tragic episode starring weeks 14-18 is being aired in this part of my blog. Please consider the episode with the utmost scrutiny.

Week 13:

This week in week 13, we have worked on tirelessly on creating yet another website for us to track our progress throughout this year on. I have finally created a version just today, (Friday) that satisfies me in terms of design.

I would like to change the color of my navigation for my posts and pages on the right column. But it seems that there is no option to do so.

Aside from my following failed attempts, I've been able to successfully add a favicon and not have something totally unexpected and undesired happen.

Google translate seems to have a problem with the visibility of some letters in this page whenever you change the language from English, to another language, then back to English. For example, the "N" In my name becomes cloaked.

I plan to find out how to use my own background image for the background instead of this blackened mixture of itself and it's polar opposite. It seems that there is no option to do so, in which case I'll have to learn how to edit HTML successfully.

Aside my success with the favicon, I didn't even need to put any effort on making my drawings face known to that of who visit my website.

Which will take a long while and not seem very worth it as opposed to searching for a real way that the website would normally allow me to undergo.

I could receive help from my friend Ian, but bothering him to teach me lessons while he himself is learning it sounds too silly to attempt. So I decided to stick with this background for a while until there is breathing room for maintenance on the website.

Here is a link back to my previous blog with the weeks 1-12.

Weeks 1-11

Weeks 1-11 are located in another voided website, which I have managed to be able to obtain thorough mining throughout my blog. These weeks are very strange and abandoned, they seem like a child writ those weeks.

I feel strange to be self reminded that I, myself have written those posts about each weekly experience in the maclab. I was a child without a goal searching for my purpose, and now that i've found that purpose, I feel more mature and wise. I guess that strings along the thought of 'growing up'.