I thought this would be a good time to create another blog post and provide a thorough update for the material so far in the course.
To kick things off I would like to accentuate the first project that we had and some of the implications associated with completing that particular exercise.The idea behind the project was really emulating a virus throughout a particular population and seeing the health state of people alter over a certain passage of time. This was really the first time where I had an opportunity to work on a life like application and develop a program that models the real world. Granted of course, much of the code was already provided and as a group it was our role to fill in the blanks. There were many challenges and struggles that we had to face as a group. For a good portion of the project we would blankly stare at the screen hoping that the answers would find us. After dedicating a sizable amount of time we were able to successfully complete the project and get the simulation working properly. Danny Heap was also a great resource in guiding us in the right direction. Toying around with the immunity, duration and virulence was an entertaining exercise as this would yield the simulation to be slightly different. Overall, the project allowed us to apply many different computer metrics and coding techniques that were taught to us in class.
After project 1, we dived into a coding field that I found to be very enjoyable and rewarding. Recursion is a way for us to create something large and complex by implement something small and simple in the beginning. It was very overwhelming from the start but once you broke down each element of the code it was actually quite easy to get a hang of it and understanding the overall output of the program. I also enjoyed putting different variable numbers into the recursion programs as you could create very interesting and funny looking shapes.
In week 7 we learned about computer hardware and as someone who is quite an amateur intellectually within the realm of computers, this was all very fascinating. The first type of storage that we learned about is the traditional hard drive. Hard drive's have a life cycle typically of 5 years and this is particularly the case because of the moving parts and spindles within them. Well then why are they the most common form of storage? The answer has to do with the pricing and the storage capacity. It was suggested that cd and dvd storage would replace hard drives, but there was a new discovery in the hard drive platform that allowed for greater capacity yields. There are new emerging and young technologies such as flash storage and ssd's. These offer greater reliability but are still priced at a premium with provides reason for them not being commercialized as the daily driver for storage. In addition to being more reliable they also offer improved read and write speeds as well as a longer product life cycle.
In the tutorial for week 7 we were deconstructing images and playing around with the width and height by designating the amount of pixels for those metrics. For instance, we could halve the height and double the width and produce two of the same images side by side. Because the material was so interesting to me, I naturally found the quiz to be quite easy.
To kick things off I would like to accentuate the first project that we had and some of the implications associated with completing that particular exercise.The idea behind the project was really emulating a virus throughout a particular population and seeing the health state of people alter over a certain passage of time. This was really the first time where I had an opportunity to work on a life like application and develop a program that models the real world. Granted of course, much of the code was already provided and as a group it was our role to fill in the blanks. There were many challenges and struggles that we had to face as a group. For a good portion of the project we would blankly stare at the screen hoping that the answers would find us. After dedicating a sizable amount of time we were able to successfully complete the project and get the simulation working properly. Danny Heap was also a great resource in guiding us in the right direction. Toying around with the immunity, duration and virulence was an entertaining exercise as this would yield the simulation to be slightly different. Overall, the project allowed us to apply many different computer metrics and coding techniques that were taught to us in class.
After project 1, we dived into a coding field that I found to be very enjoyable and rewarding. Recursion is a way for us to create something large and complex by implement something small and simple in the beginning. It was very overwhelming from the start but once you broke down each element of the code it was actually quite easy to get a hang of it and understanding the overall output of the program. I also enjoyed putting different variable numbers into the recursion programs as you could create very interesting and funny looking shapes.
In week 7 we learned about computer hardware and as someone who is quite an amateur intellectually within the realm of computers, this was all very fascinating. The first type of storage that we learned about is the traditional hard drive. Hard drive's have a life cycle typically of 5 years and this is particularly the case because of the moving parts and spindles within them. Well then why are they the most common form of storage? The answer has to do with the pricing and the storage capacity. It was suggested that cd and dvd storage would replace hard drives, but there was a new discovery in the hard drive platform that allowed for greater capacity yields. There are new emerging and young technologies such as flash storage and ssd's. These offer greater reliability but are still priced at a premium with provides reason for them not being commercialized as the daily driver for storage. In addition to being more reliable they also offer improved read and write speeds as well as a longer product life cycle.
In the tutorial for week 7 we were deconstructing images and playing around with the width and height by designating the amount of pixels for those metrics. For instance, we could halve the height and double the width and produce two of the same images side by side. Because the material was so interesting to me, I naturally found the quiz to be quite easy.
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