28/9 - ImProjB - Presentation Day

Today was presentation day and it lasted from the start of the day until lunch. I arrived to school at 10:40 so I missed some of it, but not anything important. At 11:45 we set up our project once again in the library. We introduced a feedback form for people to fill out, and we had four different people give us feedback. Yesterday, on Thursday, our project was featured on exhibition day and it lasted from 5:30 to 7:00. I think this semester of impact projects was pretty good and I learnt a lot from it. I did a lot of work on our project at home to make up for some lack of productivity at school. I am hopeful we can get Gold, if we can't then Silver is fine for how rushed our product was.

21/9 - ImProjB - Website Presentation

Planning:

• Make a website, make a directory and put presentation info on multiple pages.
• Prepare for exhibition and presentation day

21/9/18:

I have switched our presentation method to a website, which will act as the website we made for our impact project. I think this is a good idea because it shows that we know how to make a website and also it serves as an interesting presentation idea. I will finish it off before Thursday, which is the exhibition day. Next Friday will be presentation day as well.

14/9 - ImProjB - Making the Presentation

Planning:

• Make the presentation

14/9/19:
Today we made a very big effort on our presentation which is in two weeks. We have completely finished it and made sure we had all the criteria of the four principles covered. I think we will have a good presentation day.

7/9 ImProjB - WordPress

Planning:

• Work on the WordPress supplied by Ed
• Read through WordPress book
• Create multiple pages on the website.

7/9/18:

Today we made a start on our WordPress website. We didn't do much but we did experiment with how it worked, and it's feature to transition from visual to HTML. We also learnt more about animations and I began to work on our presentation in three weeks.

31/8 ImProjB - Animations and Scripts

Planning:

• Try to make a website with multiple pages, navigated by multiple links on the main page.

• Use YouTube for my learning.

31/8/18:

We did some more work on Ed's book, today was a chapter and a half of animations and how they work. We downloaded some scripts from buenacreek.com to see how these worked. We weren't very motivated to read these chapters but we got the idea of what they meant.

24/8 ImProjB - BuenaCreek

Planning:

• Ed’s books

• CSS

24/8/18:

Today we learnt about transitions from Ed's books, as well as reaching chapter 13/20 of the book. I learnt quite a lot from the code provided on the website buenacreek.com. I experimented with the transitions and figured out how make images perform diagonal and horizontal movements.

17/8 ImProjB - Website Basics

Planning:

• Find ways to make a free website online
• Use free educational resources (e.g YouTube) to learn more coding

• Download JavaScript scripts, look inside the code with Notepad++ and see what makes it work

17/8/18:

Today Ed and Spike weren't here so on top of having no friends during this lesson I also did the learning myself. I started off by turning to online resources such as YouTube and searching how to make a simple website in JavaScript. One channel named blondiebytes had a very informative yet simple to understand video on how to make a basic website. I used most of the code from that video on my little project (pictures below).

10/8 ImProjB - DOMs

Planning:

• Ed’s books

10/8/18: This day was uneventful and I hope to get more work done next week. We finished chapter 10 about
DOMs, and also found the place to download all the resources from the book.

3/8 ImProjB - Looking at code

Planning:

• Ed’s books

• Expand on JavaScript

• Chess

3/8/18: Today Ed emailed us a pack of Javascript to experiment with. When I first tried out the code, most of it seemed to not work. I looked through the code and assessed what all the Javascript was supposed to do, and found that what was missing was an ‘assets’ folder. I made one titled exactly that within the folder containing all the things Ed mailed and placed all the images in there. When I ran all the code it was all fixed and worked as it was supposed to. I also changed some parameters of the CSS of some codes, such as changing the ‘left’ and ‘top’ of some pictures, as well as the width and height.

27/7 ImProjB - Learning

Planning:

• Ed’s books

27/7/18: Today was the first day back from the holidays and Spike wasn’t here. Although, during the holidays, Spike read up to chapter 6 of the “Gamer’s Guide to Coding” and I caught up to chapter 9. I found it challenging to find a goal for today, but today was more of a learning day as I have learnt quite a lot more about Javascript. I hope to do some practical work next week.

6/7 ImProjB - WordPress

Planning:

• Use Wordpress to host/develop a website

• Find alternatives for hosting that also incorporate Javascript.

6/7/18: We have made a start on web design by use of Ed’s old Wordpress for robotics. It doesn’t use Javascript but it has easy to make websites and you can use html to write on it. We also have read chapter 3 of the ‘Gamer’s Guide to Coding’. We plan to learn to use Javascript in web design, so we may look towards other hosting services. We also learnt more about CSS and how it makes things look better.

29/6 ImProjB - Chapter 2

Planning:

• Learn about CSS

• Continue work on JavaScript

• Learn from Ed’s books

29/6/18: Today we read chapter 2 of the book that Ed provided us to learn more about JavaScript coding and HTML. We were also introduced to a program called Dreamweaver, which lets you code JavaScript for websites and see how it turns out. It also taught us a lot about CSS and how it can make graphics for a website. Tags were among the things that we have learnt today, as well as how the coding of a website is separated into the <head> and <body>. We attempted to make a website, but were unable to find free alternatives for hosting so we will attempt this next week.

22/6 ImProjB - Books

22/6/18: We have learnt a lot more about javascript and HTML coding today. Ed helped us by showing us a book about coding which was very informative. I managed to follow the instructions to make a website with a title, header and a paragraph of text, using HTML and JavaScript. Due to this activity, I was able to understand the very primitive basics of web development. Next week I hope to learn more about CSS.

15/6 Impact Project - Making a start

15/6/18: Today Spike and I have made a start on our new project, App Review. We plan to learn about JavaScript, HTML and CSS to design a website that we could format reviews of applications on. We have made a good start on our proposal but obviously we do not have a website up at the moment. Next week we hope to get some learning of HTML done, and possibly take a look into CSS.

Rosetta Stone Update 13/9/18