From Scrubs to Scripts: My Leap into Coding

  Part One Reflect on your team's Final Research Video Project Planning.  How did you collaborate?  What tools did you use to communicate and produce? Is the process smooth, what will you do differently next time in large collaborative projects? After a lot research, our team was able to meet today and assign tasks. Our meeting platform of choice has been google hangouts from the beginning of the 8 week rotation. It allows us to chat, upload files, and host our meetings. Having the whole google suite has really allowed us to collaborate despite being purely digital.  In terms of content, our team plans to use the wonderful and easy to use platform of Canva. Canvas has wide variety of media options and templates. Poetically, Canva was also the platform used to create our very first group project.  So far everything has been pretty smooth! I think the two biggest hurdles are the time constraint and being close to another big assignment, the ethics paper. The...

1. Introduction: I had the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Howe, a CSU Monterey Bay. He is currently the President of neatMon,  and leads a pioneering technology firm specializing in IoT/software solutions.  After exploring his Linkedin, I noticed he specialized in embedded systems.  Daniel loved robotics ever since high school, but he also had years of agriculture experience working on the farm with his family’s business. After working in the agricultural industry, he was exposed to so many niche problems. And because he was the technologist expert, his team looked to him for solutions. He was comfortable with the knowledge he gained from being a self-taught programmer, but he soon realized there was limit. There was only so much that he could do alone.  In an excerpt from the interview, Daniel talks about the problems he faced being self-taught: “I was working in the industry already in agriculture and technology. I was doing a lot of the functions that I do t...

Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas Using email or during your team meeting, briefly discuss possible capstone ideas with your teammates. Record in your learning journal what you discussed and if any ideas stood out to you.  Inspired by interview with an industry professional, I was able to present my capstone idea to my team. The Vital Box. With tele doctor visits becoming more and more common.  Doctors and NP require vital signs to make better diagnoses and treatment plans. The down sides of not going into the doctor office/clinic is that a patient may or may not  have a basic medical devices to capture vitals. These devices included: blood pressure cuffs, a thermometer, a pulse oximeter, and a scale. These basic medical devices can help a doctor decide for treatment. My capstone is meant to create a service that can firstly provide the kit to a patient and integrate all the findings into either and API or stand-alone app. The API route allows the info...

Part Two: Possible Capstone Ideas (30 minutes) After viewing at least 3 presentations of Capstone, list three possible capstone projects you might choose to do at the end of your study. These sample project ideas which you may or may not pursue. 1: Cardiac Analysis Trainer: The last 5 years of my life I have been staring are cardiac rhythms. Maybe I should create an app that teaches people the basics of EKG analysis 2: Teledoc TELEkit In a world where tele health has become more and more available. Non urgent check ups and urgent consulations can be done over a mobile device with a camera. I propse some kind of kit that you can pick up at a pharmacy that contains basic tools to collect vitals at home: blood pressure monitor, pulse-oximiter, thermometer, and scale. Just like tools a medical assistant would use at a clinic. All the items would be able to transmit data via Bluetooth to the teledoc app of choice 3: It's Dangerous to Go Alone! : Capstone team builder Cr...

Part One: Set Your Educational Goals After going through all the readings of this module, set and write down your educational goal(s) in the CS program (and beyond if you'd like).  The goal should be vivid enough that you can envision yourself achieving it. The goal should be exciting enough that you feel driven to reach it. Your goal should also be specific so you can see how close you are to attaining it, and it should be short/simple enough so you can remember it.      My current goal is to break into tech as a software engineer ideally in the medical field. I feel that having impact for the end user gives a different kind of satisfaction. Creating something that has form and function. Starting off, programming will be my biggest hurdle. Then I want to move into Embedded systems! They are different beasts that require more specialized firmware tailored to even more specialized hardware! As an Embedded engineer, my mantra will be take straight from a Daft Punk so...