Today as part of my IDS project, I installed and experimented with the music composition software Sibelius. Sibelius is a music writing software. It is the world’s largest selling music notation program, and allows the user to create, edit, and print music scores, as well as play them back using both default synthesized sounds and
Read MoreFor several days as part of my IDS project, I’ve been listening to music. So what? Everyone listens to music. In fact, I bet you can’t name a single person whod doesn’t have songs they like to listen to whether they’re studying, exercizing, etc. However, I was listening with a purpose; to gain inspiration for
Read MoreAs part of my IDS research for today, I began to gain a technical understanding of music theory and composition using musictheory.net. musictheory.net is a comprehensive archive of useful lessons on music theory concepts, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. The format of their lessons is extremely concise and to the point,
Read MoreEven in the unpredictable landscape of modern politics, one issue is always brought up: is it a good idea to increase the minimum wage? Both sides claim their answer to be subjectively correct, but the debate in this regard is hardly ever scientific. Arguments on the right generally cite reasons straight out of AP Microeconomics
Read MoreDid you have to Google what genetic drift was before reading this article? I bet you did. Not many people know about this evolutionary mechanism, or even the fact that evolution has mechanisms other than natural selection. In fact, outside of more formal scientific literature, the terms ‘evolution’ and ‘natural selection’ are used interchangeably. Evolution
Read MoreToday I created the slides which will be used in my final presentation. While I worked very hard on my game, a game alone can not constitute an entire final presentation, which is why I also created a Powerpoint as a visual aid during my presentation. My final presentation is split into 3 parts. In
Read MoreToday I fixed all of the text that displays during gameplay. While developing the actual game, rather than writing all of the text(dialogue, messages) during development, I instead kept it until later and used placeholders. My original plan was for it to be the last thing I did; however, I quickly realized that fixing the
Read MoreToday, I fixed all of the layouts for my game. To create my game, I used a framework called React, which is extremely great and streamlined a lot of important things. However, the layout of my pages was a bit of an issue. Because while the JSX elements of React are great for building websites
Read MoreToday, I added all the drawings I made over the past days to the game.
Read MoreToday I tried to change the image of the cipher wheel. While I was programming, I used an already existing component from the web, react-knob, to create a cipher wheel that could rotate easily and smoothly. My understanding was that I would be able to change the look of the knob later. Sure enough, I
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