CSUMB Computer Science Learning Journal

 Part One     We collaborated using Canva to create graphic slides for the video presentation. For the script, we used Google Docs to share research links, contribute ideas, and write collaboratively. We held a meeting to discuss what we have learned in-depth and worked together to create a fluent and well-structured script. Communication was handled via Discord, allowing us to coordinate in real-time through text and calls. Finally, we uploaded the finished presentations for both the public and professional audiences to YouTube. The overall process was much smoother than anticipated. We devised a schedule to adhere to. We quickly found tools that aided us in the creation of the projects, and everyone did their parts in research, writing, and rotational speaking in the presentation. Next time doing such a large collaborative project, I think clarification of who does what is needed to prevent accidental overlaps in script writing. Part Two     This week's lectu...

Part One - Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas     One idea that Claudia had that particularly caught my interest was that she thought of creating a motion-tracking software for athletes. I thought that would be a unique and strong project for a capstone project. She also talked about creating a firewall, which I also thought was a very nice idea. For Mariah, the project that piqued my interest the most was the pet adoption matching system, where it was described as a match-making system, but for humans to find the perfect pet. A very unique idea that I thought would be excellent and fun to do. I thought for myself, I'd make a forum website or tracking flying insects or birds, and pre-calculate their flight trajectory, and possibly detection of what kind of insect or bird it is. Part Two - Keep Up With Your Learning Journal For this week, I explored various careers, LinkedIn, resumes, cover letters, and internships in depth. I've never created a resume or cover lette...

      I selected a person named John, a recently retired senior software engineer, specifically because he is a family friend of my mother's, whom she has known her whole life. I naturally thought that this would be the perfect person to interview. During university for a Bachelor's in Computer Science, John took the search for internships seriously. After a while, he found one at a small startup, which would ultimately be his first real-world experience in the field, where, as he remembers, he only did maintenance and bug fixes of the code. Upon graduating and with real-world experience, his job search went relatively smoothly, where he was hired with knowledge of skills in Python, JavaScript, and mainly, C++. His first job after graduation was mostly front-end website development, where he built on already existing code, fleshing out various features. After talking about his career life, I then asked about emerging trends within the industry, and he quickly replied that...

Part One - Comments on Teammates Claudia's Comment Mariah's Comment Part Two - Possible Capstone Ideas       After reviewing possible capstone ideas, I think I'd like to make a video game similar to "A Bird's Song", by Brandon Pimentel, Anthony Broussard, Megan Aleman, Michelle Brown, and Charles Zieres. The only similarity will be the fact that it is a video game. This piques my interest since it is associated with graphics programming. I'd also be interested in something like "CueTracer," which is a tool that uses machine learning to search for and identify possible malicious lines of code. This particularly interests me because it implements machine learning within the project. A third one I saw, which was a website marketplace, gave me the idea to create something like a social media or a forum page.     Part Three - What I've Learned This Week     From this week, upon starting, I learned about recognizing conflicts and escalation of conf...

     My educational goal for the CS program is to achieve the highest grade possible while learning and retaining the concepts and strategies taught within the course. I aim to graduate with proper grades and feel that I have sufficiently earned my degree from the program. Understanding core concepts and gaining valuable experience will definitely help me achieve my educational goals from the online computer science program.     My career goals are to specialize in a field, such as software engineering, gaining the necessary experience in designing efficient software, where I would then transition into machine learning. Skills gained from software engineering will be directly transferable to developing artificial intelligence systems.     In 18 months, considering what I already know and what I will refine, learn, and experience, I believe I will achieve a high percentile on the ETS Computer Science test.     This week, I learned a significan...

 I picked tips for effective studying, particularly repetition. Repetition is an important key to studying and memorization. Reviewing past notes regularly helps cement ideas and information into the mind to be later retrieved using long-term memory. I've learned that the past week has placed an important emphasis on the ethics of artificial intelligence and its uses in society. A computer science major should know a plethora of things, starting from communicating properly and converting technical explanations into simpler and understandable descriptions. Knowing languages and knowing how to learn programming languages are different concepts, and knowing how to learn is important because of the rapid evolution of programming languages. According to the Code of Integrity, one should not submit work that is not their own, share solutions, and must be as specific as possible when describing the sort of help you had while completing said task.