Lab 8 Reflection

For this lab, we used our basic html knowledge in order to code a new basic website in order to add our favicon in it. The lab was founded from a project on code.org, which was basically to learn to the overall information of pixels and bits and the way different methods can create various colors. That would lead us to create a favicon which is an icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser's address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list. The favicon was supposed to be an image but at the same time an icon, that can be identified even if pixeliated and had to be 16x16 to fall under the category of a favicon. I created my favicon using hexadecimal number system rather than binary system since using hexadecimal would give me plenty more colors to work with. Since my idea for my favicon would be to create a bunny, I needed pink so hexadecimal would work out great for me. Afterwards of making my favicon, I uploaded the picture and a reflection onto a server named Neocities.org. The lab overall was somewhat easy to make but took time and effort to finish and give in time! I will use these skills later on in my future labs or projects for web design.

Hackathon Reflection

  On Saturday, December 3,2016, my digital design peers as well as I, attended an amazing hackathon!! We were all somewhat nervous since we had no idea what to expect from the event or place. We were all glad they were to serve refreshments and food, since we were going to be there for almost 11 hours. At first, I felt somewhat cool and special being able to attend a luxurious event like this one. The moment I walked into the building, you could feel the exciting aura all around the people and students. I really LOVED the fact that they had coffee and let me drink it as many times as I wanted.  Aside from that, the morning part of the hackathon was really calm and smooth, introducing me and my peers to what the day was going to look like. Our project was to make a product based on bias statements. The product would later be posted on a website created by yourself and your peers. At the end of the day, we did have our product handed in on time but had a lot of errors. But I really enjoyed this experience !!! It was so much fun being able to code surrounded by new people and helping you innovate yourself in order to work harder! I'll definitely go to another hackathon soon enough!!