Reflection Post

This project was an incredible opportunity for me to explore a different aspect of computers that I had never really decided to go far with before. When presented with the option to do anything that I wanted for the next 7 weeks, I decided that what I really wanted to do was work on web development and HTML. I had already been interested in this field, and had never really gotten the opportunity to work on it because of the time constraint between school and the work required to learn a programming language. Now that I did have the time, however, I already knew what I wanted to make.

This was a great project for me because I felt as if I was the one who was actually in control of what I was doing in terms of absolutely everything. With every other project, there is a certain field that you have to look into, or a certain area that you need to work on, and everyone else had to work in the same field or concentrate on the same area. The individual aspect of this project ended up with a HUGE amount of diversity in terms of the end products from everybody, and also a wide range of different takes on the way people presented their products.

I feel like the TED talk was actually a good part of the process as well. It's important to share your ideas and what we've learned, and as a conclusion to the project that we have just done, I think that it's good to share our accomplishments and see people's reactions. This project was not only for ourselves, to gauge our own work ethic, dedication and passion, but for others to see it as well.

In the end, I guess I really liked this project, and I would probably give my TED talk something around a 25/30.

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My TED talk is tomorrow! I'm nervous, but also slightly excited. This is that final chance to show what I've learned and share my inspiration with everyone, but presenting in the audion is a bit daunting.

Oh well.

Since Sunday, I've chosen new colors for my code that will make it prettier, and also decided that I only want to show a section of my code. Only a few (if any) members of the audience will actually benefit from me scrolling through the .html file while the others simply wonder what the syntax on the screen means. This is why I've decided to cater more to my audience with my presentation, and take out a lot of the code-oriented talking and put in more of my inspiration, process and passion. I think that the speech will be equally good and more understandable. I've also translated a lot of the parts of code that I do need to keep in the speech to layman's terms so that it's much easier to understand, and I made analogies from the code to the real world so that people can get a sense of what it's actually doing.

Other than that, the code is pretty much done. Because I'm only going to be showing a small section of the code (which I've already taken a picture of for the TED talk) I'm free to continue working on the html file until I think that it is absolutely perfect. I got a lot accomplished in the 7 weeks that were given to work on this project, a new door has opened for me, and I want to keep expanding on what I already have until I feel that it's complete.

I'll see you at the TED talk tomorrow! :)

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