Last day at 1st Playable 11/19/15

    Today is my last day interning at 1st Playable. I shadowed three meetings about a project that they were working on. The first one went for about an hour about ideas on what is needed to be fixed for the art. It was interesting because there were only 3 people in total and in the meeting they said ideas and problems that were needed to be addressed. The second one I shadowed, the team that was working on one specific game got together and told about problems in the code and what needed to be adjusted. They said different ideas on what to do and they learned from each other what programs there are to help fix certain problems they were having. The third meeting was a conference/phone call with a client. There were 5 people listening to a conference call and had questions for the client on what their goal was. They had a google document open in order to take notes on deadlines and on the different tasks they were given. I silently watched as they listened and took notes. It was a great experience to have so know I know what it is like to be a computer scientist at first playable.

Annotated Biblography 11/9/15

www.codecademy.com

Code Academy

I use this website in order to learn the different coding languages that I need to know. By learning these languages, I know the basics of what I need to know in order to understand what people are doing in companies that use coding.

http://www.1stplayable.com/

1st Playable

This is the company that I got to internship at for a month once a week. I would shadow a worker and then test some of the games they were working on in order to find the bugs.

www.roblox.com 

This is the website and MMO game I am using in order to begin scripting a game that people are able to play. This is more headed toward younger kids. I am taking what I learned in scripting and applying it to the studio in order to make the game.

Emma Codes

This is a club that dedicates in helping people that have an interest in coding to pursue it. This gives me the practice I need to learn how to work on group projects, even if they are small.

Emma Codes 11/7/15

        I am part of a club that is called "Emma Codes". The purpose of the club is to teach people with an interest of coding to help pursue that interest by learning about the basics of coding. In the club last week, we were shown some videos on what coding can be used in real life for and how safe technology really is. Then after that we were shown a tutorial on the basics of java script. After given the tutorial we go onto khan academy in order to make a picture and use the code that we just learned. This in order to reinforce what we just learned and have an idea of what it is used for. The coding club is a great opportunity to learn about coding and help other's interests in it.           

First Day At 1st Playable 10/29/15

      Today was my first day at 1st Playable. We arrived there around 1:00 pm and met some of the workers. When I walked into the room I was absolutely amazed by the environment. There were toys and ships everywhere. Mr. Calos and I were taken to the balcony to look at the people working during a small tour for 30 minutes. It was interesting to see how integrated everyone was. I was really surprised how the people there are constantly changing work areas to work with their team for a certain project. For the next 2 hours I shadowed one of the workers. I got to see what the process was for debugging games and how some are solved. For the debugging, they would get deadlines for what they needed to fix and the work would be spread out throughout the group so it would be an even amount of work for each group. I found it fascinating how before they officially say they "resolved" the bug, that they got someone else to check to see if they did something wrong or there is a better way to solve the problem. This was important to know because now I have a taste of what the teamwork is like for figuring out solutions to the programs.

Python 10/27/15

      Currently for my project I am working on a coding program called Python. I already completed Java script so I have an idea of what coding is like. Python has a similar function to Java script, which is to program software. From what I seen so far, Python is the same as java script, but in order to use functions, and if/else statements, I have to write down different key words to let the computer understand what I am doing. I use codecademy to learn Python and different computer languages. I have to read the explanation on the top then it gives me a set of instructions to complete using what I just read. In the later lessons, I have to reuse what I already learned so I can get the practice in for what I need to know. This is a great program to learn the basics and help enforce the coding into my mind.

Citation: https://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/pythonic-international-development/