Week 6

 Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas

    During this weeks meeting our group discussed ideas for our capstone project. A few of the ideas that we had come up with were a dating app, a meetup app for socializing dogs, and a video game. As we discussed the options, it was the video game that inspired us most seeing that everyone either has experience in game design or was passionate about the industry. We decided that building either a video game or a videogame engine would play to our strengths as developers. I am very eager to begin the concept stage for this game.

 

Part 2: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal

    This week went smoothly. Great information was gleamed from the lectures covering important subjects such as internships, resumes, and graduate schools. After having covered these topics some of the anxiety I have over them has been quelled.

    Other than that, the ethics argumentative essay I have been writing nears completion. It has been an interesting experience using AI assistance in a few of the sections. Learning to guide the AI by crafting prompts in particular ways has been successful. I still don't know how I feel about turning in an essay with AI generated sentences, but using the AI as an editor has been incredibly helpful.

    I look forward to next week and further planning out our capstone project.

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