Zalán Szakács/assessment 2nd Trimester

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Reader

• Understanding feminism
• Doing a gender balanced research
• Creating a gender neutral reader
• Research about shadow libraries
• Research into female typedesigners

Software

• Learning the commands and usage of them in Terminal
• OCR and tesseract
• Python3
• NLTK
• DrawBot

Writing

• Reading and reflecting on them through a essay
• Harvard citation
• Comparative essay

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?

• Basics into Terminal/Python3/DrawBot
  • Not to take too many side projects next school, because this will affect my focus
  • Having more discipline to learn coding (still need to catch up a few more things)
  • To learn coding needs time, focus and ambition
  • Learn to ask the right questions regarding debugging
  • Keeping track of the code notes
  • Organising the files in the computer (easier to find later on them)
  • Try to be always present at the programming classes or if not try to catch up the material and do your homework

• Reader
  • What is a reader
  • How to use zotero
  • How to do a gender neutral research
  • What is feminism
  • Where to find female typedesigners and their fonts
  • How to design a book with only text and make this exciting to read

• Writing
  • How to read and understand an academic text
  • How to do Harvard citation
  • How to structure an essay
  • How to write an comparative essay

WHAT DID I ACHIEVED FROM MY 1ST TRIMESTER WISHLIST?

• learned the basics of Python (the way of thinking in code)
• trained my research skills
• trained my writing skills
• found also ways how to connect with my work (Python – DrawBot, Python – Cinema4D, Python – Blender)

WHERE DO I WANT TO GO?

• developing further my Python3 skills
• diving in to Python – DrawBot, Python – Cinema4D, Python – Blender
• diving in into Openframes
• learning more about Wiki (+styling of it)
• open shaders