We accomplished a lot this week. Morgan and I both finished our voice-activated calculators. They turned out pretty well. Both of ours do the basic multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction functions. We also decided to add some fun features. In my calculator, you may do color math and object math. For example, adding red and blue will give you the solution of purple. Multiplying chair and apricots might result in the solution "a rather poor choice of decor", one of ten random responses available. I also placed easter eggs for when the user tries to divide by zero or use infinity.
This week Dr.Anderson gave us access to the remote servers. She also informed us that we will be using Git and LaTeX. We will need to review tutorials on those. We will also need to start reading research papers relevant to our project.
Our research team grew more this week. A sophomore Computer Science student has now joined us, so now we have a team of six (plus Dr.Anderson). Half the six are DREU participants. If you're interested in learining about the other DREU perspectives of the project, I check out the links to their websites below:
http://morganbuford.weebly.com/
http://omarwhite-ua-dreu.weebly.com/
Also, Dr.Jeff Gray, a researcher at University of Alabama, is working on a project to encourage high school interest in Computer Science. He asked us to assist him by performing a video interviews. I should have prepared for the questions ahead of time, but he seemed satisfied with the video anyway.
This week Dr.Anderson gave us access to the remote servers. She also informed us that we will be using Git and LaTeX. We will need to review tutorials on those. We will also need to start reading research papers relevant to our project.
Our research team grew more this week. A sophomore Computer Science student has now joined us, so now we have a team of six (plus Dr.Anderson). Half the six are DREU participants. If you're interested in learining about the other DREU perspectives of the project, I check out the links to their websites below:
http://morganbuford.weebly.com/
http://omarwhite-ua-dreu.weebly.com/
Also, Dr.Jeff Gray, a researcher at University of Alabama, is working on a project to encourage high school interest in Computer Science. He asked us to assist him by performing a video interviews. I should have prepared for the questions ahead of time, but he seemed satisfied with the video anyway.
If you're interested in learning more about his project, please follow the link below:
https://csp-cs4hs.appspot.com/preview
https://csp-cs4hs.appspot.com/preview