Now then what did I learn during this project that I can use after high school? One thing I learned is that people will most likely ignore your emails. I learned a bit about Python. I'm saying a bit because if you asked me to write even a small bit of code I will break down from the Code Academy PTSD. But I guess I have a base if I decide to study more code. Everything that I learned about genetics and HeLa is also pretty useful since it's just good common knowledge to have. i got more experience on movie making. That will definitely help me out and in high school.
I think that during this project I was facing two major challenges. The first challenge that I faced was coding. I was really exciting to be doing coding, until I found out we had deadlines and that the instructions progressively get less and less clear. Like seriously, those instruction got really vague and confusing. I don't know if this was on purpose or not but the point is I didn't get it. So I struggled a lot. I actually didn't make the second to last deadline because I fell asleep at my computer the night I was gong to finish coding. The same night just so happened to be the night before the coding was due. But that was okay since the only true deadline was that of being completely finished before March 27. So yeah it was a huge challenge but I was okay. The next and probably way bigger challenge was making the movie. This challenge contained many smaller ones. One of them was filming. To make a long story short, we couldn't find cameras, but I brought my own. Later the other project managers wouldn't respond to my emails about scheduling interviews, I waited until they were all together and told them in person. Probably the biggest challenge was the editing just because when I started this movie I didn't know at all where I wanted the movie to go. So editing took up most of one of my weekends. It was a big challenge but I succeeded in the end.
In this project I played the role of project manager. What that would mean is that I have to make sure my group is on task and that I have to take video for the project. I was working on the movie for this project so my role was a little different. I still took part in activities like the sourcecode paragraph explanations where we were to write paragraphs explaining the project to different visitors. Most of the time during class I spent filming or editing the movie. So I guess my role was more relevant to the classes as a whole. I was the project manager but really I was the filmmaker all along! What a twist!
Our project was about a lot of things. What we were doing in this project was relating to both coding and genetics. The objective was to write a code that could help us find an anonymous subjects genetic ancestry. So to get a head start on learning how to do that we also used a website called Code Academy to help us learn Python (a computer language). So some of us did that while other members of our groups worked on using the data that we found into infographics which was also pretty cool. Throughout the whole thing we had this star wars theme, so each group was named after a character in said movie trilogy.
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