Over the last few days, I have been working to come up with the various games that I will be including in my application. For each game, I have come up with a preliminary set of instructions, an objective, the parameters of each difficulty level, as well as the modes. In total, there are eight games. This number may increase or decrease depending on how easy or difficult it is to finish the application on time. Out of the eight games, six are single player, and two are multiplayer. This is slightly different from my original plan as I thought that creating a few multiplayer games will allow users to play the games together and compete by testing their mathematical knowledge. With this done, my first summer goal is completed, and I can now move on to my second summer goal: programming the menus and navigation of the application. The Word document detailing my various games is attached.
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Today, I had my preliminary Fellows meeting with Mr. Baraty, where we talked about my summer plan and moving forward with my project. We discussed my summer 40% and how keeping on task throughout summer is of utmost importance. Since I have pretty good background knowledge for my project, we both felt that I can go ahead and begin working on it to complete my summer goals. We both are very excited to see my project progress, as well as learn new methods and techniques for the Processing coding language throughout to make my code more efficient and succinct.
On 6/2/2020, this past Tuesday, I, along with the other Fellows participated in a Leadership lab to discuss getting started with our projects and creating our websites. In it, we accomplished a number of tasks, such as creating a project pitch and understanding what attracts the attention of others to our projects. We also started the process of building our websites, to which we were left to finish them by this coming Monday, 6/8/2020. I felt that this leadership lab was especially helpful in allowing me to further understand the general idea of my project and how to present that to others who have never heard of it. Getting tips on starting my website was also very valuable.
As I start my project, I hope to continue to stay motivated as I was this schoolyear in accomplishing the task at hand. Since it is summer, that might be difficult. However, my love for coding and activities similar to it should provide enough motivation to complete my 40% over the summer. The first step will be to build a complete outline of the games and menu systems of the application, so that I can have a solid foundation to build off of when I begin coding. This will take place throughout the month of June. In July, I plan to build the menus and navigation systems of the application so that I have a backbone to work off of when I code the games. In August, I will code roughly 1/3 of the games that will be incorporated in my application, building off of the menus I will have built in July. This will then bring me to the start of the schoolyear, where I will finish coding the games, finalize the application, and test it before Fellows presentations next May. My greatest concern at this point is being able to meet the goals I have presented. I know that I have the skills for it, but I will most definitely need to put in a substantial amount of work to make the final project what I want it to be. However, I have no doubt that I will be able to do this, and create an application that not only works, but is fun and intuitive to use. |
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