Week 11

Visiting Friends

I visited the blogs of my friends/classmates today. Many of them had interesting posts and projects.

My first stop was the blog of my friend Alex who is currently building a hoverboard. Well, not entirely. He's working on a motorized skateboard which, as long as he wears proper safety gear (hint hint) , could be the coolest thing anyone I know has ever built (aside from Hobbes I, II, and III).

The second blog I visited was the blog of Reece who's trying to code a game on the computer. He's trying to convince me to learn JavaScript and how it works with Unity, but given my current progress with html and css, that won't be happening anytime soon

My final stop was Matt. He's working on analysing and researching emotions and their causes. It's actually pretty interesting, but he's still working on getting everything up.

I highly recommend visiting any of these blogs. The projects are fun to follow, and they're always good for a quick laugh. (GIFs...everywhere.)

As I devote more and more time into my new position as the business leader on the robotics team, I'll be having less time to work on my website. I'll do my best anyway!

Week 10

Back to School!

Over break, I didn't work on my project much. However, I recently learned how to create a table using html, which enabled me to put all my links at the top of my website (without using JQuery or JavaScript!). I still have a lot to work on however.

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Work done	Work to do
Create basic pages	Learn how to make pages look nicer
Changed colours of text and backgrounds	Learn how to add more CSS
Work on the team's official website to learn	Continue to edit my website

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I'm hoping to be able to work on my website and write "blog" entries for the team as build season continues, but robotics is taking up most of my life right now! I don't know if I'll have a very cool end project because my html work might go into working on the official website of the team, since it desperately needs help!

Week 9

Where I'm Going

As you can hopefully tell from the formatting and colouring of my post, I've gotten pretty far in my learning. I'm still struggling with CSS, but I've basically got HTML figured out. I still have to use google for help occasionally, along with the html and css I wrote for my website. I really need to work on that too.

My 2015 Goals

• Fix my website more
• Understand CSS past text color coding
• Maybe learn how to make interactive areas on the website
• (hyperlinks don't count)
• Learn
• ????

Happy Christmas!

Week 8

Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I actually have to take a moment to be thankful. I have a lot to be thankful for, but I don't usually think about it.

In regards to my Blueprint to Brilliance project, I'm most thankful that my project is helping me learn HTML and CSS. I'm also really thankful that my project is allowing me to make a website.

I'm really thankful for the help I've received from codecademy.com, the always wonderful Google, and my boyfriend.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!! :)

Week 7

My Next Three Steps

• Continue learning html and css
• Find an expert that isn't Google or codecademy.com
• Make my site look less like a 13 year old made it

None of my next steps will be very hard. I don't have any particular order for them at the moment since they all correspond with each other. I do think learning more css will really help with fixing my site, though.

My Site

Week 5/6

After the speeches, I decided I wasn't going to make it very far with my chosen topic. Luckily, I had a couple backup topics I could fall back on. I have thus changed my topic, title, and url. I will now be learning and applying HTML and CSS. I have a website I'm playing with coding on (www.angrilyconfusednerds5010.net)*, and I will make it look less like a 6th grader's computer apps project and more like an actual site.
I'll be using Codecademy for the majority of my learning, but I'll also use other reference sites. I'll probably also get help from some of my team mates who know coding.
Hopefully, this topic will be a better year long project, and I'll be able to have a good end product.

*This site is not the official website of Tiger Dynasty and is in no way associated with the team. Our actual site is www.tigerdynasty.org.

Week 4

To give my speech, I plan to write down what I have to say and then practice it until I have it within the time limit. I need to figure out how to organise my speech and what I want to say in it. I think I will probably talk about what PFL and respectful language looks and sounds like. I will probably give examples of PFL and talk about how there are occasions where you don't use it when it seems like you should.
During the question and answer phase, I hope to learn what my classmates want to know about PFL and respectful language, so I can decide where I should focus my research. It will also be interesting because I will be able to learn if my classmates are even interested in my topic.