Final DP Update
Generating Ideas
I never really had a difficult time generating ideas during math class. I was always fairly good at planning and applying various plans to reach my overall goal. The pinnacle of this was my virtual ecosystem project, which resulted in pretty much exactly what I had originally intended to create.
Communicating in a Clear and Accessible Way
Again, I feel that I exemplified this skill during my class. For the neural network in my ecosystem, I was able to take a concept that took me several years to comprehend and relay it in such a way that it was reasonably understandable to the general public. Due to the independent nature of my education this year, there was very little interaction in a group scenario, so it's difficult to assess my skills involving responding to others' ideas and solicit responses from more quiet group members.
Recognizing and Resolving Errors
After working through several bugs with my independent project, I identified and resolved several errors. For instance, there was a logical error in my code that allowed an herbivore to eat all plant life on the screen by moving to (-1, -1) and shaking back and forth. After spending a decent amount of time attempting to isolate the cause of this error, I was able to resolve it by changing my Euclidean distance calculation code to use absolute values instead of relative values.
Reflecting and Synthesizing
Through my presentation around my project, I showed understanding of the deeper meanings of concepts that I applied. After observing the impact of various functions in my code, I was able to dig into the underlying workings of these functions and why they were applied in the way they were. I then took the functions and applied them to create a program, something that I feel is very relevant to my life outside of school.
I never really had a difficult time generating ideas during math class. I was always fairly good at planning and applying various plans to reach my overall goal. The pinnacle of this was my virtual ecosystem project, which resulted in pretty much exactly what I had originally intended to create.
Communicating in a Clear and Accessible Way
Again, I feel that I exemplified this skill during my class. For the neural network in my ecosystem, I was able to take a concept that took me several years to comprehend and relay it in such a way that it was reasonably understandable to the general public. Due to the independent nature of my education this year, there was very little interaction in a group scenario, so it's difficult to assess my skills involving responding to others' ideas and solicit responses from more quiet group members.
Recognizing and Resolving Errors
After working through several bugs with my independent project, I identified and resolved several errors. For instance, there was a logical error in my code that allowed an herbivore to eat all plant life on the screen by moving to (-1, -1) and shaking back and forth. After spending a decent amount of time attempting to isolate the cause of this error, I was able to resolve it by changing my Euclidean distance calculation code to use absolute values instead of relative values.
Reflecting and Synthesizing
Through my presentation around my project, I showed understanding of the deeper meanings of concepts that I applied. After observing the impact of various functions in my code, I was able to dig into the underlying workings of these functions and why they were applied in the way they were. I then took the functions and applied them to create a program, something that I feel is very relevant to my life outside of school.