Duke Alice CS Research Journal

Day 19: Workshop began!

Day 20: Lots of interesting talks in the Alice Symposium and bonding with colleagues.

Day 21: Presented Dragon v. Princess part 3. Lots of walking around and teaching. Twas fun.

Day 22: So Jonathon gave a seventeen hour tutorial.

Day 23: We gave a tour.

Goals of the day:

• Finish Jonathon’s assessment checks
• Finalize tutorials created
• Facsimile Alice 2 tutorial on checking for collisions (2 ways)
• Prep for the workshop next week!

Actualities:

• Learned about the logistics of the workshop
• Signed up for
• • Princess Dragon Part 3
  • Lights Camera Action Part 3 BDE
• Finished creating the checking for collisions game; tutorial forthcoming

Goals of the day:

• Read papers
• Jot down a few lines of reflection from the lunch talk
• Finish tutorial #4
• Self-check all tutorials and assessments

Actualities:

• Reflections from the lunch talk (by a Facebook alum): You never really know until you experiment. There’s often surprise.
• Finalizing tutorial #4
• Checking four of Jonathon’s assessments
• I want to create a new game…

On ne sait jamais! – le petit prince

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Goals of the day:

• Design Tutorial #3 Making billboard out of PPT page
• Jot down a few lines of reflection from the lunch talk
• Start designing Tutorial #4 Multi-layered object clicking

Actualities:

• Tweaked some parts of the previous tutorials created
• Finalized Tutorial #3
• Lunch talk (by Bing Xie) reflection
  • Presentation of work can be as important as doing the work.
  • Target audience should be heeded.
• Checked Nat’s challenge
• Started Tutorial #4

Goals of the day:

• Read a few papers
• Finalize Ostrich “Ask User” Assessment
• Design Mini Trivia series Tutorial #2

Actualities:

• Finalized “Ask User” Assessment
• Checked Jonathon’s tutorial and assessment
• Finished Mini Trivia series “Ask User” Tutorial #2

*Sick leave; working remotely

Goals of the day:

• Finish tutorial #2
• Read a few papers

Actualities:

• Updated Beginner’s Workshop rooming form
• Finished creating the Assessment (program & PPT)!
  • “Ask User for an Answer” Ostrich Neck Massage
  • Main concepts assessed: Use procedures of objects, do together & do in order, ask user for an integer, and add a new event listener for a specific letter.
  • Will ask a colleague to double check

Worked as planned:

• Did a grocery run
• Tweaked the hula program
• Read a few papers
• Started creating tutorial #2 asking user for an answer

Goals of the day:

• Complete tutorial 1 scorekeeper
• Do Nat’s texture tutorial
• Read a few papers
• Start tutorial 2

Actualities:

• Completed tutorial 1!
  • Asking Nat to help check it.
  • Improved the tutorial and the game
• Did Nat’s texture tutorial
• Built a prototype for Hula Hula assessment (collision detection and randomness)

Goals of the day:

• Complete Nat’s tutorials
• Read a few papers
• Finish Tutorial #1 scorekeeper

Actualities:

• Completed Nat’s tutorials
• Read papers
• Sent roommate confirmation emails
• Kept on building Tutorial #1 scorekeeper

Goals of the day

• Finish the Mini Trivia Tutorial
• Start building the PPT
• Jot down a few lines of reflection for the lunch talk

Actualities:

• Finished constructing the Mini Trivia
• Lunch talk (by Prof. Vincent Conitzer) reflection
  • Form: Presentation was clear and captivating due to abundant use of diagrams and examples.
  • Content:
    • Very pertinent and interesting topic, also read:
      • Prof. Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
      • Future of life institute
    • AI researches touch on psychology and philosophy, and employ economic theories
• Fact-checked some maps and directions for the Alice workshop
• Finished first half of Nat’s tutorial 1
• Started developing a challenge (incomplete) version of the Mini Trivia; decided to develop a four-part series of tutorials focused on four useful topics, as demonstrated in the slides below!

 Tutorial #1 pp.1

Tutorial #1 pp.2

Tutorial #2 pp. 1

Tutorial #3 pp. 1

Tutorial #4 pp. 1