May 15th - Genius Hour Blog #8

Yikes

       Its now week 8, which marks the 2 month mark of the genius hour project! I feel like progress has been very steady, and not too slow which is fantastic. Something I knew going into this project was that nothing complicated or too hard was going to come out of it, and the goal was to learn and use as many new concepts as possible. Yesterday (May 14th 2018) was a slower day. I wrote some code but spent around 40 minutes trying to get it to actually work. In the end it didn't actually work which was frustrating, but I managed to get rid of all but one error. I used strings for the first time, and mostly did a lot of troubleshooting the Base62 encoder. I learned more about these new strings, did some work with the modulus operator, and learned a lot about different types on integers. At the very least next week I should be able to polish up my project because of the work I did yesterday, but the project could also be an issue and cause me to have to ditch it because it could eat too much time. Recently, I've done some videos and very short "movies" in groups, and the experience is very different from my genius hour project. On one hand, with a group you end up with more ideas because everyone is bouncing them off each other, and the workload is less because everyone does a part of the project. However, when you are working alone you don't get as many ideas but you don't have to negotiate with your group to find a result that pleases everyone. You can do whatever you want if you're working alone and that can be great! Overall, when I have the choice to do a project in a group or alone, I like to look at the workload, and whether I would work well with my potential partners.