Weekly Journal

- Got an introduction to the ICD2O course.

- Watched the movie Hidden Figures, it was about the role of women in NASA.

- Learned a bit about HTML and started this website.

- Learned about the history of computers.

- Learned about binary, converting back and forth with decimal and binary and adding and subtracting with binary.

- Learned about logic gates and some simple logic problems.

- Completed a logic gates and binary quiz.

- Got back and corrected the quiz

- Learned about the parts of the computer, such as the monitor, computer case, mouse and keyboard.

- Also learned about the inside components of the computer, the buttons and ports, and peripherals.

- And learned about the differences between desktop computers and laptops and mobile devices.

- Opened up a computer case and saw the parts of the computer.

- Researched information about malware and made a poster.

- Presented poster

- Learned how to create, reposition and alter stars and circles with python on CMU

- Learned how to add basic color and gradients in python on CMU

- Learned about rectangles, ovals and opacity and roundness in python on CMU

- Learned about borders, lines, labels, dashes, sizes of lines, labels and borders, bolding, italics, font and angle rotation on CMU

- Made this weekly journal into a table

- Made a turtle in CMU for Truth and Reconciliation day

- Learned about and wrote an article about Trump’s lawyer who brought a gaming laptop to court

- Finished some tasks on CMU such as drawing WALL-E and Eve.

- People from Nokia came in and talked about Nokia and the careers and co-ops they have.

- Did a creative task where I drew a pig using python

- Did another Tech Tuesday Topic about hacktivism in the Israel-Hamas war

- Improved the Weekly Journal

- Did a CMU quiz and got 10/10

- Started CMU Unit 2: Functions, Mouse Events and Properties

- Learned about defining functions and global variables

- Improved this website

- Did a Tech Tuesday Topic on blockchains and how they work, are used and why they are secure

- Built pumpkins in Minecraft

- Started AI unit

- Learned about how machines can learn

- Learned about the 3 ways of training an AI model

- Learned about classification

- Did a Tech Tuesday on how AI can correctly infer information based on conversations

- Did AI lessons 3 and 4

- Trained AI models to classify apples and tomatoes and then stars

- Did a CMU halloween drawing with a jack o'lantern that lights up when clicked

- Did a Tech Tuesday on blockchains

- Worked on CMU unit 2 creative task, I made a movie theater with an old cinema countdown and a version of the Star Wars opening

- Did AI lessons 5 and 6 and their activities

- Created a small picture on CMU for Remembrance day

- Started CMU unit 3 which covers functions and did the CMU unit 2 quiz

- Did a tech tuesday on cybersecurity

- Created a machine learning model to recognize photos for the game Rock, Paper, Scissors and then put it on scratch to make the game

- Experimetned with Google Classroom's plagarism detection of AI

- Continued CMU unit 3

- Worked on Javascript on CodeHS

- Coded a boxing game on scratch

- Fixed this website in github

- Continued CMU unit 3 and did some of the summative projects

- Finished codeHS unit 1

- Finished codeHS unit 2

- Completed a cybersecurity public service announcement (PSA)

- Played a game of Tetris with the class

- People from a government agency came over to show us about tech work. They showed us interesting devices such as a portable wifi machine and the discontinued google product which showed a virtual overlay and could take pictures. They also showed a $6k-7k augmented reality headset with many features such as drawing. They also showed some virtual reality glasses.

- Worked on codeHS unit 5

- Left for vacation in Mexico

- Returned from vacation in Mexico

- Stayed home as I got really sick

- Didn't end up working on anything for this course as a result

- Worked on CMU unit 3 final tasks

- Finished the CMU unit 3 creative task

- Did a finally Tech Tuesday on online sports betting

- Started and finished the RST for this course

- Filled out the reflection and showed and saw other peoples RSTs

- Last day we went to school was January 24, but course ends Febuary 1