User:Samolson
From REU@MU
Week 1 (5/30/2017)
- Init new wiki page for Sam Olson
- Set up Arduino hardware and software, and familiarize with interface
- Set up Adafruit Circuit Playground hardware and software, and familiarize with interface
- Continue to work with Arduino and MUzECS shield
- Read "A Browser-based IDE for the MUzECS Platform"
- Research CS Discovery, Code.org curriculum for Circuit Playground and IDE AppLab
- Help finish project overview paragraph
- Read "A Browser-based IDE for the MUzECS Platform"
Week 2
- Read "MUzECS: Embedded Blocks for Exploring Computer Science"
- Brainstorm methods to survey local schools utilizing the MUzECS platform
- Responsible Conduct of Research training
- Develop research question first draft
- Attend working lunch
- Investigate MUzECS IDE platform version 3, get working on Linux, Windows, and MacOS
- Why won't the IDE work on Chromebook?
- Read "To Block or not to Block, That is the Question: Students' Perceptions of Blocks-based Programming"
Week 3 (6/11)
- Research other applications built with Blockly
- Continue reading "To Block or not to Block, That is the Question: Students' Perceptions of Blocks-based Programming"
- Complete CITI RCR Session 1
- Attend working lunch
- Why can't MUzECS board be detected by MUzECS IDE or Codebender or AppLab on Chromebook?
- Not enough data for current research question -- rethink research question
Week 4 (6/18)
- Try programming Circuit Playground with MUzECS IDE
- Research parameters to support Circuit Playground on avrgirl
- Attend working lunch
- Scan code.org for Johnny-Five usage
- Investigate error with installing Firmata on Circuit Playground via MUzECS: "could not reconnect after resetting board."
- Setup Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
- Attempt building MUzECS IDE