Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Answer 2: The most important aspect to a user-friendly app is a good design. 

Detail 1: Readability.
example: The information and text has to be not too big and not too small to read. 
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/user-friendly-web-design/

Detail 2: Augmenting Human Capabilities
 example: If using a business app, direct the user's attention to a small number of important issues instead of overwhelming them with all possible options
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/best-application-designs/

Detail 3: Navigation
example: Do not make it hard to move around in your app. Navigation is very important to user's because people will not be patient and try to figure out where to go and how to use it. 
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/user-friendly-web-design/


Concluding sentence: The design of an app is one of the most important keys to having a successful app on the market. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. I Plan to take an online computer programming class and watch video and then take some quizzes and tests on the information that I learned.
2. I will show evidence by submitting my quiz or test scores that I will have taken by the time the blog is due.
3. This will help my topic because I will further understand programming at a deeper level.
4. Done.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log.
• (d) Explanation of what you completed.    
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

Literal: 

a. I, Bradley Schott, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b. I actually got quite a bit of help from my mom who is in the IT field. Also I got some help from various websites such as http://www.codecademy.com. This is the sort of like Khan Academy, but for programming.

c. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvTj5YXLfzo4dDFuTWVUQXdzdE9uWEdGNHpPVE84NUE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

d. I took an online course via podcast/flash video. 

Interpretive:
 This course helped me further understand computer science and the technical world. It also helped me find some of the answers to me E.Q. You can check out all of the videos/audios here: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative/intensive-introduction-computer-science

Applied:
 It helped me understand the amount of complexity there is to coding and programming. I never realized how much you actually had to learn and understand to do some of the simplest things. For example, in most coding languages you have to be very precise and exact on where you put your brackets and make sure that you have one that links up to another one because if one out of the couple hundred is off, then your program will most likely not work at all. When I first started this I focused more on my old E.Q. which had to do with coding languages, but now that I am focused more on user-friendliness, so it doesn't apply to me as much.

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

Being able to present and truly understand what I am saying to my audience while also hitting the time frame without having to worry or try too hard.

2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       P

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I think I deserve a P because I showed up on time with every thing turned in (Lesson plan final draft), and had my poster ready along with my power point. I hit the 10 minutes of speaking time as well as the 20 minute total time. I also talked about my mentorship in the middle of my presentation along with citing my research sources. 


3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
I felt much less nervous this time when I presented because I had rehearsed my presentation a lot more than I usually practiced for other presentations.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
Maybe start working on it a little bit more in advanced because I started only a couple days before and I think it would have taken a little bit more of the stress off if I possibly started a bit earlier.
5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?  
Having a strong base for layout and design. ( for example: having all the coding done in a manner where as it is easy to design the app or change it)