The unity task this week started out in quite a bad way, I accidentally update unity and when I opened it up there were a few things missing and a few things I wasn't used to. Nevertheless I pressed on and quickly got back to the version I was using for everything else I do in unity.
The process of doing this unity task went the same way any good story does, the dashing hero overcomes the problem in the end. I started out with the whole update thing but upon solving that issue I was met with yet another. I couldn't get any textures to work and even when they aren't really needed I still like to have them just to make things look better and more distinguished so I can think clearly. I eventually figured out the problem and sorted it out and went step by step through the tutorial. One or two issues here or there but I fixed them after a little deliberation.
I admit I missed a couple unity tutorials over the weeks but if you told me in october that I would be as competent with unity as I am now I would have been surprised because it was a very daunting piece of software to begin with and there is still a lot to learn but I am reasonable happy with my progress over the last few months and am excited to see where I can go from here.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
week 12 reading
I am currently most of the way through the writing process and I am glad because it's not something I specialise in and not really what I had in mind for this course but this is still a skill to have in the toolbox as academic writing is something that may be useful in the future.
The main thing I have learned in this is that the main thing to keep in mind when it comes to academic writing is that one should always read a significant amount more than they write as almost everything needs to be sourced and documented. This is not something I feel I do well with as I tend to get a bit carried away when writing and as a person who can type fast I tend to get into a rhythm with it and the words flow much simpler as I go on. However with academic writing I need to go sentence by sentence and know exactly what it is that I am talking about because it needs a source. I don't like it but it's the world I live in.
The main issue I had is as above, the sourcing of all the things I say. I tend to write in the first person a lot and use a lot of I think and I feel etc. But alas, language like that has no place in that type of writing and it leads to me not really being in the same zone I can be in when writing things that I am more used to writing. I am constantly worried about messing up the referencing section and it just doesn't allow me to be as comfortable writing as I normally am.
The main thing I have learned in this is that the main thing to keep in mind when it comes to academic writing is that one should always read a significant amount more than they write as almost everything needs to be sourced and documented. This is not something I feel I do well with as I tend to get a bit carried away when writing and as a person who can type fast I tend to get into a rhythm with it and the words flow much simpler as I go on. However with academic writing I need to go sentence by sentence and know exactly what it is that I am talking about because it needs a source. I don't like it but it's the world I live in.
The main issue I had is as above, the sourcing of all the things I say. I tend to write in the first person a lot and use a lot of I think and I feel etc. But alas, language like that has no place in that type of writing and it leads to me not really being in the same zone I can be in when writing things that I am more used to writing. I am constantly worried about messing up the referencing section and it just doesn't allow me to be as comfortable writing as I normally am.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
week 10 reading
Week 10
I used this week to get access to a couple more papers which I will be mentioning in my final project. I searched around on google scholar for a few more papers as the reading portion is more important than the writing portion. I plan to just submit everything in the last couple weeks as it suits my style of writing a lot more. I'm finding out more and more about video games use in the speech and language development department for young people.
I can't really talk about personal experience in my writing which is generally how I like to write so it is a bit of a challenge in that aspect so I'll share a bit of personal experience here because why not. I grew up playing a lot of video games and I've always been above average in speech and language, I even scored in the top 2% of spellers in the country on a standardized aptitude test. I don't really know to what extent the video game hobby really helped me out with that but upon reading all these papers maybe it's not quite as clear anymore. Perhaps video games did gift me with this natural ability to read and write or at the very least played a small role in my development.
Progress is slow but consistent in my writing and it's not really my bag so to speak but I think what I am writing is at the very least acceptable. Not crazy about it but don't really hate it.
I used this week to get access to a couple more papers which I will be mentioning in my final project. I searched around on google scholar for a few more papers as the reading portion is more important than the writing portion. I plan to just submit everything in the last couple weeks as it suits my style of writing a lot more. I'm finding out more and more about video games use in the speech and language development department for young people.
I can't really talk about personal experience in my writing which is generally how I like to write so it is a bit of a challenge in that aspect so I'll share a bit of personal experience here because why not. I grew up playing a lot of video games and I've always been above average in speech and language, I even scored in the top 2% of spellers in the country on a standardized aptitude test. I don't really know to what extent the video game hobby really helped me out with that but upon reading all these papers maybe it's not quite as clear anymore. Perhaps video games did gift me with this natural ability to read and write or at the very least played a small role in my development.
Progress is slow but consistent in my writing and it's not really my bag so to speak but I think what I am writing is at the very least acceptable. Not crazy about it but don't really hate it.
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