My summer session ended on the last Friday of July, there’s nothing new for me to report this week.

My summer session ended last Friday, there’s nothing new for me to report this week.

I have found a suitable library for the project but this week is my last week working with Colleen and her team. I wasn’t able to learn how to use the library in time in order to finish the app. Regardless, I had fun working on this project!

This week has been spent searching for a suitable graphing library that will be able to display a graph within a collasible view. So far I haven’t found any good ones,but I will press on.

This week has not been very productive, as most of it was spent waiting for replies from the Mills teachers and students I reached out to last week. It wasn’t until Thursday when I finally got a reply and came to a conclusion as to why my app wasn’t working the way I wanted it to work. It seems that I will need to learn a new library in order to achieve what I want for my project, which is a bit disheartening, but oh well. I’ll press on.

For most of this week I have been working on the app but I’ve run into a couple od debugging issues that I am unsure how to fix. I’ve reached out to a couple of mentors from school to help me out with the issues.

This week has been rough. I kinda hit a wall in developing the android sample app this week. I don’t have much experience in coding android apps, so coming up with my own ideas has been tough. To help get past this hump, I reached out to another Mills student and scheduled a brain storming session with them. They have a ton of experience with android and are even interning for a company which is developing an android app! I’ll be meeting with his later this afternoon, so hopefully things work out!

This week hasn’t been very productive. I’ve developed the sample app to a point where nothing else can be done; working with graphs can be very limiting. So in lue of working on the app, I’ve been reading research papers to see if any have good examples of interventions, but reading through the papers has been slow. I just find reading these papers to be very difficult. I’m not very happy with how this week has panned out.

This week has been spent mainly working on the sample app for the project. Thus far, I have explored 3 charting librarys, and have settled on one. Aside from working on this app, I haven’t done much else, but still, I am doing good work! Next week I will be attending a virtual conference; there are a couple of pannels that prove to be promising for the project.

Most of this week was spent doing complementary research on how CS improves society as a whole. I found a good few articals on how CS improves Public Health. Towards the end of the week, we decided that we would try to incorporate android development into the project. I’ve started a new project in AndroudStudio and have a working XYPlot sample. The next steps would be to incorporate a scrolling ability and then add some accompanying text to describe the graph that is provided.

This week has been spent more on getting acquainted with the project I was assigned to. I spent most of this week reading existing papers on the project topic and then researching possible new areas wherein computer science makes a noticeable impact. Thus far, I have found a good article on how machine learning can help to improve Public Health Training. I have also found a couple of articles on how CS has benefitted K-12 grade students in their academic pursuits. Both Kathleen and Colleen have been very helpful in answering my questions whenever I ask them. I will continue my exploratory research into next week.

This first week has been very interesting. I attended many meetings which gave me a peek into what working on a research project looks like. In these meetings we touched on the various stages of different projects; these stages were, brainstorming, planning, and review/critiquing. As of yesterdary, 5/27, I’ve been assigned to work with a PHD student named Kathleen and together we will be working on a project which strives to change student’s perspectives on CS as a career field. We essentailly want to bring awareness that working in CS can bring about positive social change, rather than just contribute to modern convenience. There will be more to come on what work I will do for this project, but until then, I will continue to sit in on the meetings set up by my mentor.