Period 5 – Page 2 – Kennedy Computer Science Academy

Progress

I relearned the fundamentals of Blender and some more.

Things like how to add materials and textures. Learned that the “Cycles Render” is better than “Blender Render”. I also learned how to add materials and textures.

I made a sword and a small house with clear windows. Recently I made an experimental environment where I tested how different materials and lights interact with each other.

This week’s accomplishments and challenges

This week we started to work on our game, at first we hit a difficulty with when the collision wasn’t working initially but i fixed it today. Now im going to try and make the player move automatically without any input.

Status Update 2/23/17

I have been working on a set of pages relating to the database project, and there has been much progress since the beginning of the week. This feeling however, that the work will continue to remain at this easy pace, has subsided. I expect things to get far more difficult once the PHP aspect is introduced to the HTML pages that we have created. wish us luck

Challenges + What I learned

Things Learned

Kali Linux is Debian based. (Needed to know for installing things)
Kali Linux uses .run instead of .exe which is why you need to download things specifically for Linux

Challenges

Opening .run files
Getting DVWA installed

My goal

So, my close range goal is to try out unity and see how it works, since i’ve never used it before. My long range goal is within the next couple years to make a decent game. I would like to make a bullet hell mmo game or a fps game.

Step 1. learn how to use unity

Step 2. do simple stuff in unity

Step 3. Create a simple game in unity

Step 4. Eat

Step 5.Learn how to make more complex stuff

Step 6. make a more complex game

Step 7. Let people try the game out and see their opinions and adjust the game according to how they think of it and what their ideas are.

Step 8. Sleep

New Goal

I am going to start focusing on a major project, based around the observation of teachers, students, and the data recorded

I intend to be primarily working on the SQL database side of the project, rather than the php.

Long/Short Term Goals

Long Term Goals

Make at least 5 different comics on 5 vastly different topics.
Revise some of my photos in my portfolio
Add more to my portfolio for my resume

Short Term Goals

Make at least 2 slides of a comic a day and shade it(possible)

My Goals

My goal is to learn how to make a website

my short term goal is to learn how to use html

my long term goal is to make a website

My Short/Long Term Goals

In short term, I plan on figuring out exactly what my project is. In long term, hopefully finish or make good progress on said project. In the meantime, the district database is going to be something I will work on, and I’m considering making it a main goal.

Goals/Steps in the process

Long Term Goal: Build an app with a GPS that helps new kids/freshmen get to their classes in Kennedy quickly without getting lost.

Short Term Goal: Build a simple app and figure out how to work with the GPS and beacon.

Current steps:

Figure out and get comfortable with using android studio.
Make a simple (not overly complex) app in android studio.
Refine app over time until it’s where I want to to be.
Figure out how to connect my beacon to the app I created on android studio.
Buy multiple beacons and set them all over the school at specified distances so they can properly tell where you are in the school.
Test app out before putting it on app store and make sure that all the beacons are working properly.
Make a schedule based on the beacons battery power span to check if the batteries need to be replaced or if one of them isn’t working.