1. Who do you plan to interview? What is this person's area of expertise?
- I plan to interview my mentor, I know that it should be a third person but if anybody is going to help me with my EQ it will be him and not somebody with a fancy job title. My mentor is a master in app development.
2. Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview. What is the date and time of the interview?
January 23rd 4 o'clock
3. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
- What is the best app development practice to entice users and inspire word of mouth.
4. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
- What is the best way to break down what app developers do, into management level English in effort to convince possible investors to invest in a product.
5. Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ.
- How can a sprouting developer best learn how to network with larger and more prominent developers in effort to expand on possible business enterprises?
- How do you design an application to cater to specific audiences?
1. Where are you doing your mentorship?
- Most of my mentorship is done at our favorite coffee shop, however because it is digital work, we also meet digitally and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to count those hours.
2. Who is your contact? What makes this person an expert?
- My contact is my orriginal mentor, Brian. Brian is an expert because it is his job to be clever and find solutions in the programs he writes and that are given to him. Speaking to him feels like speaking to a genius and when you hear his spoken resume on recent projects it feels like excellence. His job is a county job and to me those qualify as the most legit instead of a mom and pop's shop that can all be hearsay.
3. How many hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).
- I've done 11 hours during the year, but there have been a lot that weren't in person and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to count those.
4. Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.
- Because what we do is a foreign language to me, and a lot of revisiting for my mentor its easier than anything to fill up hundreds of hours of mentorship. My mentor and I make mini applications as lessons for one specific aspect of programming. Every time we meet the chemistry is amazing and we are comfortable with talking for hours, Brian is a very easy person to talk to which helps me because I am not confident in my ability. He teaches me language, the long way for a task, the short way for a task, the task used in a small scale, and the task used in a big scale, in that specific order when we meet.
1. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school. What did you do over the break with your senior project? -Although I was anticipating a break, it was more of an opportunity for my mentor to teach me as much as he could. Without a doubt it is great to learn about my topic and work on my app. With an eager mentor, it can get tiring but seeing my work come together and gaining independence makes it all worth it.
2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why? What was the source of what you learned?
- Having vision is the most important part of designing an application. If there is no vision, there is no point, its cool to know how to do everything but if you just put pieces together that don't match you'll have a useless application. It's about finding balance between features and design.
3. Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why? -If my first interviewee can follow through and help me with networking to big names at Microsoft or Northrop Grumman, I will be set. However I would like to interview my mentor's managers as a backup.
