CS Learning Journal

 Final Video Projects  Otterbots - Drone Delivery Systems:  Here is a link to their video geared towards a professional audience:     This team decided to discuss drone deliveries, and how it may affect logistics while utilizing artificial intelligence and algorithms.  This specific topic is well-discussed throughout the video. They go over all the systems that are in place to optimize flight paths and regulations. They also go over a history of drone deliveries and how the technology has overall advanced.  The presentation is very clear. The speakers are understandable, and provide B-Roll footage to help people apply a visual to the topics that are being discussed.  They prove that they have strong knowledge in the topic, and they cover a lot of topics quite clearly. Personally, I think they could have provided data or research to show how the industry is reacting to drone delivery and backing it up with evidence.  The video is produced qui...

 Video Project Planning      So far, my team have been using a few different websites and methods for project planning, communication, and project tracking. For project management, we've been using Trello.com which is a website that lets us communicate with each other what specific task we're working on and when they'll be finished by. It's a very easy-to-use tool but it has been working great for tracking our progress and reminding us when we should be done with certain tasks, like script-writing and editing. We've also been utilizing Google Drive for file management and collaborative script-writing, as well as Canva for designing presentation slides for our video.       Our strategies have been working well for us so far, and during our meetings we make sure everyone fully understands our do-by times and tasks. So far, everything has been working perfectly for myself so I can't say for certain if there's anything else I would do differently for ...

 Capstone Discussion      This past week I got to spend some time with my team members and begin to think about some ideas for our capstone projects. All of our team members have vastly different concepts for a Capstone project, but they are all so fascinating and cover bases in varying different ways. One wants to make an organization Ed-Tech tool, one wants to make a social media platform, and another wants to make data analysis programs! We pitched our own ideas to each other and got some constructive criticism, and I realized that my idea of a fully functional AI-based translator app may be a bit of work; however, I am very interested in its concept and I look forward to seeing how I can execute it.   Learning Overview      I had the opportunity to learn a lot of new, applicable concepts this past week. To start, I spent some more time with AI Prompt Engineering and I was able to get a pretty favorable output from ChatGPT by using very careful...

 Teammates' Goals One of the best ways to get a perspective of my own goals is to get ideas from my peers and see what they plan on accomplishing, and looking at it from an analytical sense can be a great way to learn how to critique my own. I picked out two students from my team to review their educational and career goals from last week.  Teammate 1   Jason Week 4 "I think your educational goals, while broad, are really solid goals to follow. The program offers various information and can cover a lot of topics, and being able to retain all the information itself sounds like a really solid goal. Could also be helpful to plan how specifically you intend on retaining the information over time, like maybe specific projects or portfolio items that reflect on each subject! Learning specific languages is also a very useful skill to have while you're taking the program, like Python and SQL like you said. I reflect over something very similar. It's important to have career go...