This week I continued on with my XR project. I fixed the uploading to GitHub issue that I had last week, I tried several times but I eventually figured out that making an empty repository and then importing my customised unity files into it was the solution. I’m so glad that worked — so now I’ll be able to work on this at home.
I also had an academic writing workshop this week, some of the content was just a repeat from last year but I felt like it was a good refresher.
I had a student rep meeting this week, I felt that it was quite a productive meet, it was nice to hear that someone from creative technology and robotics shared some of the same opinions as I did, its nice hearing other people’s opinions and I feel like we are going to making some small but useful changes.
On Thursday, we had two lectures. The first one was about algorithmic complexity. It was good to listen to as it touched on some topics I learned in my A levels such as binary trees. I liked the sorting visualisation of worst and best case scenarios, as I hadn’t seen it explained with one before but it really put things into perspective for me.
The second lecture was hosted by Sara, a computer musicologist. Whenever I normally thought about creative computing adjacent courses I always considered art and robotics but never music. I found it interesting how she said she uses prolog to calculate changes in chords, especially since prolog is quite an old programming language. I love seeing the applications that computing can have outside what most people assume.
I also had pizza today with a person on my course and some people from CTR. It was lovely to catch up with them and I had a great time
Finally, I had a Christmas session, where I imported some Christmas objects in unity and edited an XR preset scene to place these objects on the ground. I chose some Santa hats. It was a fun session to end 2025 with!
This was the last week before my break, this year has definitely been a step up but I love seeing how my skills are growing and my intuition with figuring out different coding languages too.