Digital Design by Rifat Rahman

A few weeks ago in class, my peers and I did a lesson on code.org where we had to make an app called "ColorSleuth". The objective of the lab was to learn how to use the certain functions, console.logs, vars, etc. The design aspect of the game was to have four different boxes spread around the screen. Three would be the same color, and the other one would be the same color, but a shade darker or lighter. When the app would be ready to be activated, the user would have to pick which color is the one that doesn't match with the rest. Then it would go on displaying different colors. If the user got it correct, they would receive a point. If they got it wrong, they wouldn't receive anything.  What I learned whiled doing this lab was how to properly use the functions, and var variable(s). Overall, the lab was a good practice on what we had learned while doing the lessons on Code.org.

On February 3, 2018, my peers, teacher, and I went to Queens College to participate in the boro-wide "Games for Change" Hackathon. Our school represented two teams during the event, consisting of four members of each team, two juniors, and two seniors. The event was for about 5-6 hours where each team had to create an app that would relate to news literacy. News literacy is when the fake news is being spread around the world, preventing people from actually getting real information to them. My team and I used the "App Lab" on Code.org to create our app. During the time we had to create the app, I and a fellow classmate researched where news literacy is being used, and the other members of the team, made the app, while we helped them giving relevant information. After the time we had to make our app was finished, we had to get our apps ready to be presented to three judges. So once everyone participating was done and ready to present, the judges walked around and p...

The CTE Expo in Information technology High School is a day where freshman students come visit the Video and Web Design (the best) academy.   It's a chance where they get to see what both academies, and what they do over the course over three years. Not only that, but it gives us CTE students a chance to practice our presentation techniques and allow us to show off our apps that we have created and our skills that we've learned while being in Web Design. We also had teachers, school staff members, and people from companies with internships to observe what we have to offer in Web Design. The objective of the expo is to give freshman students a chance to see what we have to offer in both academies that we have in Information Technology. What we did to prepare for the expo is we (juniors) built an app/game so when freshman come during the expo, they would have a chance to interact with the game, and we can talk to them on how we created it. During the expo, my fellow classmates ...