The App can Talk!

This post covers what happened for the Feb. 17th week. That week was primarily focused on adding sounds to the program. This has been on our wait list for things to do for a long time having been held up by the previously faulty computer moves. The sounds wasn't really a challenge at all, it was just picking a short enough mp3 file. We searched for songs we though to be appropriate for the given situation (ex: Hall of Fame when the player wins). However, we had some controversially annoying lengthy clips like oppan gangam style and "hello motto" which didn't really impress our audience when we presented what we had. Instead the changes music in our app which we did over over a day stood out more than the flawless computer moves which we did for over months.

Y U NO HERE ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Contrary to the quite harsh title of this blogpost, I'm really happy that Mr. Stephens got the LASA teacher of the year award. It makes complete sense as he's taking responsibility for nearly all the tech classes. The computer science department has improved drastically over the past couple of years. As for this week, Mr. Stephens hasn't been here for most, or the entire week (I wasn't here on Monday). I've heard Mr. Stephens now has work to do as in writing essays because of his accomplishment so good luck to him. I would think he'll be here starting from next week.

Two Minds are Greater than One

This week we had the privileged to have both our mentors here at once so theoretically we should have accomplished a lot. We're still pretty stuck on making the "new board" concept work out. We also had a code review one of the days which took up a significant portion of class time. Here my code review partner suggested to our group that instead of making an entirely new board where we would check the move, we could work it out simply with storing values in integers. If this were to work, it would prevent the confusion and messy work of copying and making this virtual identical board. I was then absent on Wednesday since I was sick. So sick in fact that I went home early, skipping tennis practice the previous day. To make things better it was a double-B day so I'm hoping next week I'll be in the class more often.