Final Portfolio

Codehs- In the beginning of our Intro to Programming class, we were assigned sections in Codehs for our homework. These sections taught us basic python and console interaction which included conditionals and looping. Codehs took us through a process of videos, quizzes, and examples in order to teach us what we needed to know about python. It was simple in the beginning but proved to be very challenging towards the end. However, with the combined power of the entire class, we were able to get through the hard assignments. We were also challenged to take our new knowledge of python and put that into our own code to do different things. One of the things we coded was a math tester that solved certain addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problem that were inputed. This project was VERY hard but satisfying to complete in the end.

Arduino- After our Codehs lessons, we were introduced to Arduino. Arduino essentially gives us instructions on how to set up certain things on a circuit board in order to cause things to happen. For example, the instructional book will tell you where to connect several wires and light bulbs and then the code that the program has will make the lightbulbs flash in a certain order. This assignment was super fun because you could build different things and you could also play with the code a little to see how changing certain lines would affect what the program did on the board. It is like a puzzle and sometimes it doesn't work properly so you would have to investigate and figure out what went wrong to fix it. I highly recommend this to any new students in this class because it is fun and highly interactive.

Terminal- After Arduino, our class split different ways to learn other things and a few other classmates and I were taught how to navigate through the terminal. We were taught sudo commands, how to check your terminal history, and even how to attack another computer. These commands would allow us to control a different computer from our own laptops and make it do random things like shut down or say something funny. This was super entertaining to do and is a super useful thing to know as well. Being able to know how to use terminal is super important and can give you access to many things. You are able to even hide secret files in your computer that no one else can find. Overall, learning to navigate through the terminal was one of my favorite lessons and is super helpful.

Raspberrypi- Once we were done learning about the terminal, we were then introduced to Raspberrypi which is essentially a mini computer. We were given a few pdfs with lessons to learn everyday about the Raspberrypi. My classmates and I spent a couple of days learning the ins and outs of the Respberrypi and even started to customize our own. The pdfs were very educational and had a lot of interesting information on the basics of the Raspberrypi. We could even use our knowledge from the terminal lesson on the machines because they had a terminal as well and could be used to attack the other Raspberrypis.

Minecraft Server/Scavenger hunt- Finally, the most entertaining part in my opinion was the scavenger hunt project. We were tasked as a class to split up half and half to set up a scavenger hunt around the elab for the other half of the class to solve. The class was divided by their specialties, for example, if two people knew how to fly a drone then they would be split so that there would be one person on each team who knew what to do. There were several sections in our scavenger hunt, including code, drones, Minecraft, Arduino, and music. I was in charge of the Minecraft section of the scavenger hunt and I decided to build a replica of the elab in Minecraft for the other team to navigate through using various hints I put throughout it that would eventually lead them to the next spot to go to irl in the scavenger hunt. The hunt was so much fun and it was a blast trying to figure out how to solve each section. My team got stuck on the coding and music section which eventually lead to our loss but never the less it was super fun to create and even more entertaining to do.