Classes

Introduction

▪ Chemistry Class

▪ Visualizing Algebra

▪ Italian

▪ Paused Swift app development class

A Typical Week

A typical weekend

The snowball effect• You blow off your

work for one day because you are tired or having a bad day

• Instead of going away it moves to the next day

• The next day two hours of Math seems too overwhelming so you don’t do it

• At the end of the week you are stuck with 6 hours of Math

ImprovingWhen I first got started, I'd end up snowballing 4-6 hours of work each week for Saturday and Sunday. I have improved at keeping up with work, but most weekends I still have some roll over work

Chemistry: What I did:

▪ Went to class five days a week

▪ Did labs

▪ Did homework

▪ Took tests

▪ Learned

Labs

A chemistry experiment followed by a full write up and analyses.

Examples will be passed around

Subjects Covered

What I learned

▪ Hard work / focus

▪ Chemistry

▪ Math

▪ Lab skills

▪ Efficient lab writings

Visualizing Algebra

The Course

Video lessonProblem

Discussion forum

Video lesson, or answer video here

Topic

What I Did

▪ 1 hour per day 6 days a week

▪ Video lessons and exercises

▪ Notes

▪ Problem sets, midterms, and finals

▪ More then 168 hours of work

Notes

Will now be passed around

Topics Covered

More Topics….

Solving a Quadratic Equation

Who remembers high school Algebra

Hint: You can solve by factoring, or by using the quadratic formula, there will be 2 answers

A X2

1

B X

C

Steps

▪ Find factors of a*c that sum to b

▪ I.e. factors of 1*6 that add to 5 Answer(2 and 3) ( 2 *3 = 6 ) (2 + 3 = 5)

▪ Replace B with the two factors 5x becomes 2X + 3X

▪ (X2 + 2X) + (3X + 6) = 0

▪ Remove a common factor form each group

▪ X ( X + 2) + 3 (X + 2) = 0

▪ Rewrite

▪ (X + 3)(x + 2)

▪ Set each one equal to 0

▪ X+3 = 0 x+2 = 0

▪ Solve for x

▪ X = {-3,-2}

Dear Math

What I learned

▪ Algebra

▪ Perseverance

▪ Work ethic

▪ Note taking

▪ Problem solving

▪ Online course taking

▪ Math jokes

Italian

The instant immersion Italian course, an Rosesta Stone nock off

Audio and Computer

▪ Listened for 1 hour per week

▪ Repeated vocabulary and phrases

▪ Converted to different verb forms

▪ Did computer based exercises for 1 hour per week

▪ Practiced vocabulary and pronunciation

▪ Level 1: vocabulary, excurses, quizzes and speaking practice

▪ Level 2: Phrases, dialogue, speaking practice, quizzes

Brief Conversation

Shirley my mom has been learning with me

▪ Ciao Shirley

▪ Hi Shirley

▪ Come stai

▪ How are you

▪ Sto bene gratze

▪ I'm fine thanks

▪ A tu

▪ And you

Conversation

App makeing fail

Unfortunate due to fate and mac computers my app design project failed

Took Udacity course on app making with swift, I didn't like teaching style

Built some of a app in x-code

Computer crashed, and deleted work

Other computer hard drive failed

Fate decreed I take a break from this project

Next year I will try to learn to make apps again