Update

At this point, Finn and I have made significant progress with our 20-time project, and it is beginning to show up in our actual project. We are slowly but surely developing a basic knowledge of the computer programming language of python, and the clouds are starting to clear from our vision as we look to the future of creating our product. We both feel that taking time to become fluent in the language has been a setback, but we also both feel that it has been a necessary one. We will be able to accomplish more this way, and we feel that we will be able to take away more from the experience. As we continue to work, we will be shifting our focus from learning to creating. If we stick to our knowledge, we believe we will be able to have a functional product in the next few weeks.

Field Work

This weekend Finn and I spent our time developing more fluency in programming. We continued to work on the online course we are taking. We feel that this course does a very good job of teaching a basic understanding of the syntax and vocabulary of python, but it does not do a great job of teaching how to be creative with it. Still, we find the former basic understanding to be completely necessary in order to develop the skills of the latter. We do plan to meet with a mentor, but unfortunately it did not work with either of our schedules this weekend. My neighbor is a client of my dad’s and he works in the field of computer science. We are considering meeting up with him when we get the chance. When I was in elementary school, I was on the Lego League team and he was one of the coaches. He is very knowledgable and a meeting with him would definitely benefit our project.