Tag: engl1102

  • Project Presentations

    Fillipe: Project: Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but more of sci-fi/western, rather than with wizards and other aspects of “regular” DND Starting point: a previous adventure book, that is a bit closer to being more “modern” Why?: Fun to make and play a campaign entirely made yourself, including some past experiences to make up the project,…

  • Project Presentations

    Sarah project: a podcast about feminism in pop culture goal: “cancel culture” around feminism being too or not feminist enough, as well as language used. questions to be answered: current progress: todo: Ethan crowds in different areas have different humor, for example, Atlanta vs New York most comedians talk about things in their own life…

  • Project Presentations

    Ben: Chairs There wasn’t enough time to show enough information, and information found was often repetitive The chairs in the classroom are good for some, but also hated by many Nancy: Pokemon Go The game has come to become addicting, looking into the reasons why. the game has a lot of community, and causes people…

  • Class Notes (Projects)

    Project: Logan (Taylor Swift) Taylor Swift has had a multitude of albums as a part of different areas of her life. Albums take different phases and different sounds, for example, some where country while others were more modern “pop” or now ballad type-songs Deliverable: a podcast on Taylor’s life, with areas of music, lyrics, previous…

  • Class Notes

    My project is rewriting and designing ScratchDB, a system I created for analytics for a programming website by MIT. This system allows for searching users, projects, and posts, and also provides rankings for everything. I am working on designing a newer, faster version that replaces my currently nearly 2-3 year old design. My theme is…

  • Class Notes

    Things I’d like to see from presenters: I’d like to see the presenter walk as they explain what’s on the slides, without simply reading the slides, and also engage the audience with questions, real world data, and multimodality. importance: How I can use this in my own project: My project is very much a “personal”…

  • ScratchDB (v4)

    My original(tm) paragraph: Currently I have completed a decent amount of the design phase of my project and I am able to start writing the systems that bring it all together, starting with the new indexer and database system. Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned a lot about how I could properly format my…

  • Class Notes (Video)

    Facts about American Life Getting These Three Different Projects to Link Together Both of these could probably be titled something under Taylor’s Game, but, that sounds a bit close to Ender’s Game, although I haven’t seen or read anything about that book/movie so: Opposing link: One thing we believe: How this can be used on…

  • Design Choices 1

    Today I looked more into how I will deal with communication between the indexer, database, and the API. First I thought if simply having an HTTP server that in itself is an a way a REST API, but this is terribly inefficient as it (at least in my design) does one operation per request. So…

  • ScratchDB: Project Update 1

    So for a decent part of today I looked into designing the leaderboard system. I researched various different ways to rank the data, going anywhere from a combination of HashMaps and BSTs to simply keeping my current solution of an oddly ranked array/Object combination in JS. At the end, the easiest and likely best solution…