User:Gustavo

About Me

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.

Progress

Week 1 - May 29 to June 3

May 30

• Created my wiki page.
• Talked with Dr. Dennis Brylow about possible research areas.
• Installed the MUzECS platform and got it working.

June 1

• Began searching for papers on Block-Based programming.
• Me and Sam Olson created a page for the project we're working on: Advancing via MUzECS Platform.

June 2

• Read 2 papers. One based on the Scratch programming interface and another paper based on Snap! high school students' transitions to Java.
• Attempted to get MUzEC's most recent Chromebook web app to work. No success yet.

June 3

• Received a very informative paper from Dr. Brylow and read it. It's about how blocks impact the learnability of languages.

Week 2 - June 4 to June 10

June 5

• Looked up and started learning about Blockly and its alternatives.

June 6

• Attended the Responsible Conduct of Research training.

June 7

• Sam and I came up with a research question and other considerations for the project.

June 8

• Was able to run the latest MUzECS code on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Having issues recognizing the Arduino port on Chromebooks.

June 9

• Began learning how to use the Johnny-Five library for Node.js.

Week 3 - June 11 to June 17 =

June 12

• Continued understanding MUzECS source code.
• Kept on attempting to get the Chromebook to work with last version of MUzECS. It still does not appear in the "Serial Ports".
  • Tried it in normal mode and developer mode.
  • Tried it after a factory reset, and both modes after reset.
  • Tried all Chromebook channels.
  • Tried "lsusb" in developer mode, the board does appear there.
  • Tried connecting with other Chromebook applications, none of them work.