Thoughts, Week 2

This week, web site modification was easy for me. I had to add a paragraph describing my Capstone idea, which was easy once I'd selected an idea and written the 200 more words describing it. I was basically summarizing from a larger document. I also changed the formatting of the assignments a little bit. I'm using my website template from my Web Design class, which has cool stuff like CSS dropdown menus. In that class, I had to talk a bit about each assignment, so each one needed its own page. In this class, the files are self-descriptive, so without a page describing each assignment, I needed to revise the structure of my links.

That's just esoteric stuff though, not what this class is about. Our main goal this week was to select one of our two ideas from last week. I had to think about it a lot. I've had some good times with Tarsier, and I can tell that they're a good group of people, and a good project to be involved with. Still, they're more science-oriented than I am, and the iLearn portfolio system is closer to what I see myself doing once I finish college. I ended up going with that (the iLearn portfolio system, that is).

The other thing we had to do this week was find and talk to a Capstone adviser. My concentration is programming, both of my potential Capstones are mainly about programming, there's only one pure programming teacher at CSUMB, I've taken many classes from him and know him well, and we've been working together this semester for a different class (independent study). Suffice to say, this part wasn't a problem. I didn't even look at this part of the assignment until today, which turned out to be my downfall - we have to get our potential adviser to sign a piece of paper saying we really did talk to them. Oh well, we meet Mondays for the independent study, so I'll do it then.