To start off this week, I did more of my react project. I feel that this week I became a bit more familiar with the terminal functions, and I also got speedier at setting up the android emulator we have been using in class to test in an app setting.
I had a lecture with leanne, who is a NUA alumnae. When she talked she really felt relatable. I may of had a computer science background at a younger age to her but I relate to the fact she is a slower learner. When she mentioned how her other skills allowed her to be hired it made me happy to know that my other skills are valuable asides from just being a programmer.
I also added icons and tabs and it was very simple. I loved implementing it as a feature and I feel it does a lot for my app. In the future, I’m thinking of styling it a bit but I am already happy with how it currently looks.
I had an idea of adding cat noises to my piano, I discussed this with a friend from another course. I felt it was good to be able to use her as a soundboard for my ideas. For instance I mentioned I might splice a video in order to get cat noises and she mentioned pitch correction as well as a suggestion that I could always make meowing sounds myself if I couldn’t figure out any pitch correction software. I have found what she told me valuable going forward with my project.
I attended the most recent vice chancellor talk, which talked about the gender gap in role models in the tech industry and how current systematic views often silence the contributions of people who aren’t cisgender men. I found the discussion great as I got to hear the contributions of people who I haven’t known about much before. Even though the speaker spoke a lot about inspirational woman, I found her inspirational as well.
Over the weekend I tried to test my code on the university computers near the library, since I currently have limited access to my computer at home.
I quickly noticed an issue, errors were appearing in my code that weren’t there when I checked it the day prior, and I have made no changes since. I tried to do ‘npm run start’ in the terminal, and noticed npm couldn’t install. I consulted copilot for a considerable about of time, familiarising myself with pico and more terminal commands in the process.
