Answer 2

 The most important step is profit

1.  What is your EQ?
    What is the most useful web application for all audiences, and how can those audiences be reached?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
    The most useful web application for all audiences is a weather application, and the way to reach all audiences is by having an all around solid product.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
    The most useful web application is a store application, and the way to reach all audiences is through google adsense. 
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
     There is actually a store for everything including dinosaur poop
     All audiences benefit from Amazon.com, including children who don't even use the internet because of parents
     The second you search for something with google, that can be related to a reputable store, you receive tons of ads related to your search
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
     McFarland, James. JavaScript and Jquery: the missing handbook.United States: O'Reilly, 2014. Print
6.  What other source supports your answer?
     Pash, Adam. "How to Build a Web Application from Scratch with No Experience." LifeHacker. Life Hacker, 13 Aug 2009. Web. 1 Feb 2016.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought. 
     The most useful web application is an application that sells a product, we live in a culture with values based in consumerism, on top of that, Google just about runs our lives.  
     

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

- I needed to dress nicely to even get into Ms. Lu's building before she had to leave me for a call..

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
    - The most important thing I learned from this interview was that success won't come fast. Even with her pretty astounding degree, she was jobless. She was anxious to work and didn't understand the industry she was entering. It took her years to get to a management position at Microsoft, and there was still better opportunities with Northrop Grumman. Even before she started working at Microsoft, she didn't know that she would find a lot of joy in trying to break programs. Which tells me that patience is the number one trait I need to maintain.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
    - Well it was difficult to get my interview window with Ms. Lu, however I'm happy with the time I did get. I was promised a 10 minute window and I'm a little bummed that I got 4 and a half but even that tells me a lot. It was very possible for me to shift my focus towards security by finding a new mentor but I'm happy that I didn't do that and won't do that. Ms. Lu is a very busy professional and the amount of work she constantly needs to deal with. In terms of my project, I'm not going to touch anything near security like I wanted to for a portion of my second independent component.




Link to my interview:
https://soundcloud.com/j0shua-sanch3z/interview-with-caroline-lu

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
      - With my mentor I will most likely create a jquery project (a website with animations like pull down menus). This project can possibly explore databasing, a possible answer #3, but is intended to act as a way to find my answer #2.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
      - Getting a working project alone will take around 70 hours again, and to publish the project would take around 10 to 15 hours.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
      - My EQ asks what is the most useful type of web application, and my first application was a weather app. My next attempt at finding a useful app will most likely be a faux store with databasing, however just to have a jquery project that displays information will be more than enough work for the component.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log
     - Got it.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Joshua Xavier Sanchez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 75 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• "Variables." Net Tutorials. Net Tutorials, 2013. Web. 2 Aug 2015.<http://csharp.net-tutorials.com/basics/variables/>.
• Davtian, Norik. "How to Build Your First Web Application – Tutorial Series." Big Employee, Big Employee. Oct. 25, 2013. Web. 17 Sep 2015. <http://bigemployee.com/how-to-build-your-first-web-application-tutorial-series/>
• Ghaida. "Designing Code: How to Use Design Principles to Write Beautiful Code." Zurb Blog, ZURB. Jul. 05, 2013. Web. 1 Oct 2015. <http://zurb.com/article/1220/designing-code-how-to-use-design-principl>
• Lorranger, Hoa, Jakob Nielsen. "Teenage Usability: Designing Teen-Targeted Websites." nngroup. Nielsen Norman group. 4 Feb 2013. Web. 15 Oct 2015. <http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-of-websites-for-teenagers>
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I made a weather app and it might not be gorgeous. However it is completely functional, works in every city in all 50 states and has the most solid code backing it. Most of my hours were spent researching with my mentor however I'm not sure I'm allowed to count them towards my mentorship hours so I'm calling them component hours
• INTERPRETIVE 
  
  
• My finished product. Not bad not bad. But to get to this point was a ridiculous amount of trial and error that drove me nuts and I'm happy with what I've got

• Here is one example of the ridiculous amount of lines of code that go in to such a simple program. I made an error on purpose and the line number can be seen in the lower right with the warning triangle. It reads error in line 16150.

• Here is my HTML where I wrote in the reference call for the different table elements and my ability to simply name all 50 states. Not validate them and reference them.
• APPLIED
  For one I learned that it's very easy to hit audiences with an app like the one I built. A lot of  development is researching. And I made sure to tailor my component to my EQ. My best knowledge on my topic came from sitting for hours and hours straight trying to understand to the fullest extent, what I was writing. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

-It's really not easy trying to make this stuff interesting

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
    - For my lesson 2, I was most proud of finding a way to make programming interesting. As it is, speaking about computer languages without people dozing off is a hard hard task. And for me to get a couple laughs, that's unheard of for a programmer to do. Not only that but people actually took the activity seriously and had a good time with it, rather than using it as an opportunity to talk for a few minutes.
2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE/P

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
       Using the component contract and staring at the P requirements. But I feel like the activity and my conclusion is what solidified a grade higher than a P, the audience did what I have to sit and do for hours, in an abridged version, and had a great time. The conclusion with my answer put the whole presentation together and it just felt right.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
       My activity worked, the Keys to Success worked, and having Itzia help me worked.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
       Something I would have done differently is handed out printed examples to each table, but I don't have the kind of money for that much colored ink. Black and white on a handout looks not as presentable and very last minute. One more thing is I would have just snuck in more jokes to try and keep the presentation more engaging.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
     Answer number 2 will most likely be a universal databasing app,available for all companies to use. And to get my product out there would be with investors.