Latest Posts

• Privacy Discussions

  I think my view on my own personal privacy has changed, because even though I was aware addresses were listed on the NC Voter Registration website, I had no idea how easy it was to find information of family members and other more personal details of peoples’ lives that you might not think would be on the internet.

• Digital Media Influence

  During the class discussion on the Influence of Digital Media I learned how much of a role this source has played in recent events, and how it has led to further polarization of political beliefs.

• Citizenfour Reflection

  My biggest takeaway from this topic and the documentary is how important privacy really is to a truly free and democratic nation, and without it we have very little power.

• Hivetracks Discussion Reflection

  During the HiveTracks discussions, I learned sometimes even projects managed by public universities can suffer from ownership issues that can cause the data to not be freely available in some cases, that there are many types of honey, with a type known as sourwood being produced right here on the Blue Ridge, and that there are several bee health issues, some of which are dealt with by using unapproved substances.

• Ethics Discussions Reflection

  I think the discussions were very insightful, both in that I learned a lot of specifics about other classmates, but also in general from hearing different perspectives on ethics that made me think about some of the things I believe personally, and also how our generation in general views things.

• Best Computing Experiences

  My best computing experience as a Computer Science student at App was when I finally got my Assembly Strings exercise to work in Intro to Systems, and the joy and sense of accomplishment I felt afterwards.

• Why I Switched To Microsoft To Do

  I recently switched from Google Keep to Microsoft To-Do for my task list needs, and I felt like I should write a blog post just in case my reasoning helps anyone else make the decision to switch.

• Fun With Discord.py And Matplotlib

  Today I finally finished the Codecademy Python course, and I decided that I should make something actually useful to try out my newfound Python skills, so I decided that making a Discord bot using Discord.py would be a project simple enough for me to understand, but that I could make as complex as I wanted with my knowledge of Python (and maybe add to later if I learned anything cool that’s relevant to Discord bots).

• Today I Learned About Branches And Gitignores

  So today I added a new project to GitHub (a post talking about that is coming soon™), but I wanted to have a webpage to go along with it.

• Astronomy Info

  I recently was going through some of my old files from the programming class I took sophomore year, and I found a cool little project I made called “Astronomy Info”. It basically just shows info about various planets organized by galaxy and solar system.

• Hello World

  This is my first post on my very first Jekyll blog :)