The Last Gabi Wednesday!!!!!

        Good morning campers!! If this is your only week here at our camp then, hello! This is the camp leader Gabi (with the pink hair). I like to write a little blurb to you all on Wednesdays because of the meme above. Today is my last Wednesday writing to you all and whether this is your first, second, or third week with YWiC for this summer, I would just like to say thank you for all your hard work and also, to keep it up!! All of your projects have been really cool and I'm very excited to see all of the new projects coming this Friday!!!

        Although this summers camp is nearly over, I strongly encourage each and every one of you to continue learning anything you can about computer science and continue working with the cool stuff that we've shown you in camp!

       I'm currently a student here at NMSU pursuing a degree in Computer Science. It is pretty neat, and even as a college student I love to learn more and more about computer science because it's something I'm very passionate about!

       While I'm not taking any classes for the summer semester I am doing work in a class called "Smart Contract" where I'm currently going in depth into JavaScript, what Sikta is teaching you all!! After I learn about JavaScript I get to learn some C++ and then I'll go into "Blockchain" which is used for things such as Cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin). In that class I have to read from this book called "Eloquent JavaScript", and from the reading, I found a lot of inspirational things that I thought you all should read as well.

          "When a program works, it is beautiful. The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity. The great program is subdued—made simple in its complexity. Some programmers believe that this complexity is best managed by using only a small set of well-understood techniques in their programs. They have composed strict rules (“best practices”) prescribing the form programs should have, and carefully stay within their safe little zone. This is not only boring, it is also ineffective. New problems often require new solutions."

          "New problems often require new solutions." This is the most important thing that I want you all to remember from any of my Wednesday blurbs. Computer Science is something that is still new to me because I'm always learning!!

Computer Science, as I've said before, is constantly growing and expanding in so many ways leaving truly limitless possibilities for anyone. 

I implore every single one of you amazing young ladies to keep learning! You are all so ahead in what you know about computer science and that's something that you should give yourselves a HUGE pat on the back for!! 

You all shouldn't be afraid to push yourselves with your projects. You have the resources and the knowledge!! Think BIGGER!!! 

There's so much computer science to explore and don't be afraid of it!!! Don't be afraid to try!!

           With all of that being said, for your blog prompt today, I want you to tell me how you plan to continue learning and exploring computer science. Maybe you're going to take classes at your high school? How about dual-credit? You could even learn on your own using Khan Academy, Coding, Bat and so many other websites!!

Once again, thank you lovely ladies for all your hard work!!

                                          Begin answering these questions for your open-build project.

1. Provide an overview of your project/artifact.
(For example, I designed a video game using Scratch programming where the player, or snowman,
has to catch 5 snowflakes and avoid the flying flames.)

2. What did you plan to learn from your project? Did you meet this target?

3. What computer science concepts did you use in your project?
(Variables, loops, conditional statements, functions, lists/arrays, methods, etc.)       

4. What computational thinking principles did you use in your project?
(Abstraction, algorithms, correctness, efficiency, iteration or loop statements, variables, etc.)

5. How does your project relate to the “real” world? What did you learn or use that will
help you outside the classroom?

6. In your project, what did you particularly want others to notice?

7. What would you improve if you could do this over again?

8. Does this project reflect the effort you put into it? Why or why not?

Fun blog prompt: 

If you could spend a day with any celebrity who would you hang out with?

(Even though it's more than one person I would really want to meet the 5 members of my favorite band, Avenged Sevenfold.)