Way back in the
old days:
When I walked back
into this classroom for the second time I was pretty freaked out because I
didn’t see any of my friends in the room. So until then I just sat at my
assigned seat waiting for the bell to ring signaling that 3rd hour
had started. Luckily, at the last second I saw a couple of my friends Natalie
and Kaylee walk in and I let out a sigh of relief knowing that I wouldn’t be
alone. Then just at the last second my other two friends Marissa and Evan
walked in which made me even more relaxed than I already was. I remember
vividly the first day of school because we walked in, sat at our assigned seats
and waited for the instructions to begin. Once the bell rang and Mr. Olson
talked for a few minutes and then sent us on our way since everybody knew him,
he really didn’t need to do an introduction.
Our
first task was to make a simple little website representing what we had done
that summer and a few of our interests. I was kind of expecting that we would
have done it on dreamweaver but to my surprise we were doing it all on
textmate. Which is pretty cool because since I never had used it before it gave
me the chance to learn something new. Learning how to use textmate was fun
because you got to design everything from scratch with no limitations… the only
limitation was your imagination. Even though I already knew how to code, it was
still a learning experience because I was so used to having premade templates,
but no… I was doing this all by myself. Every little thing.
I
learned this by looking up how to make a website from scratch and you know just
doing what the tutorials had said to do until I felt I could do it by myself.
Ofcourse once I was doing it all by myself I still had to look up a bunch of
different codes… by the way shout out to WebSchools, pretty sure id be all
screwed up and doing everything wrong if I didn’t look on there. Anyways that’s
besides the point I guess I really learned all this through trial and error.
I
feel that all I learned was really important because it will help me in the future
when Im in the career of a video game developer. I know that doesn’t seem very
likely that a video game wouldn’t need coding but its very crucial because you
can really do anything now a days without coding.
I
would say that my greatest strengths are that when I did my projects that I
would do with so much detail and perfection because I wanted to get the best
grade possible on it and not to mention that im a perfectionist so that played
a part on why I was always so late with the projects I did. I would say that
one of my weaknesses is that I always got distracted in class and I wouldn’t get
any projects done because my mind was always somewhere else or doing something
else.
With
all that I have learned this year I am probably going to apply it to my own
personal projects and like I mentioned earlier my career as a video game
developer. Other than that I’ve also always had a dream to make my own web
design company since I was at least 8 years old so I will probably try and make
that happen.
Is
there anything that I would change? No, I honestly wouldn’t change anything
that happened this year besides maybe the fact of how many of the projects I
did do because that is really what ended up hurting my grade in the long run
which I know its my fault but its still disappointing.
In
conclusion I would just like to thank Mr. Olson for teaching me all the things
I did learn this year, and getting on to me about turning my projects in. I’m
looking forward to seeing you next year, and thanks for taking the time to read
this.
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