Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
     - I'm proud that I was able to make my time and not be nervous as possible, I was speaking too fast and ended up coming short and I took a deep breath to finish strong and handle myself.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

 P      I met all of the requirements and I feel like my performance was not above and beyond. An AE presentation is obvious and hits you when you see it, I feel like mine was not quite there.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE   Completely based on the hours I spent coding, and the fact that I had to learn 4 languages just to make it happen. I feel like the difficulty of the workload is what justifies a higher grade.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
      - The flexible schedule worked, for me it gave me time to really put in the effort my project deserved.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?
     - I would attend my mentor ship more often, I only completed 51 hours because I didn't know how to count my time on IC's that I spent with him. I feel like i could have learned more.
(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.
     -The senior project has given me a skillset that will carry me through college and allow me to succeed through my struggles and find a career. I knew nothing about coding going into Senior Year, and now I feel confident in my ability to achieve what I want in life because of what I know now.

Exit Interview

farewell senior year
(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

      - What is the most useful application for all audiences, and how can those audiences be reached?

• The most useful web application for all audiences is a weather app, and the way to reach all audiences is by having a good product and relying on word of mouth.
• The most useful web application for all audiences is a store app, and the way to reach all audiences is with Google Adsense.
• The most useful web application for all audiences is a databasing app, and the way to reach all audiences is by selling the app to various websites that attract different audiences.

The best answer is a databasing app, because it exemplifies complete utility and has the capability to reach all audiences because the marketing is on a different scale than a consumer product.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

      - Honestly it was taking my essential question word for word. A databasing app is the most useful because the internet literally runs on databases, so its the same as saying air is the most useful to humans. And to reach all audiences possible, its the most genius part, sell the app to websites that market to different audiences. The consumer won't even know they're using the product made because it can manifest in something so small as a web store, all the way up to blogs and emails.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

     - I hope I understand the question. One problem I faced was finding time for my mentor on top of work, school, and young scholars. I dropped young scholars completely after one quarter, and had to take less hours at work. But meeting with my mentor was still difficult because he had very specific days to meet, and all I could do was try and try to make our schedules match. One more problem was trying to maintain a social life, of course school comes first, but above all comes sanity; and it was not easy trying to keep my head above water at school and not cut off friendships.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

     - The single most important source in my arsenal was my mentor. Without him, I'd have no senior project, independent components, and understanding of the code I write. Anybody can just sit and Google little snippets of code to use, but without my mentor I would not actually understand what I was writing and why each line was important. My second most important source was my first interview. My interviewee, Benjamin Bracero, made me realize the different paths for code to take shape. If he hadn't put me in that mindset, then I wouldn't have an answer three or one.