Week 1_ Project Management_ Personal web page
At the beginning I just met the new Fab Academy classmates and our tutor, Antonio.
The followed the conference session with Professor Neil about the principles on which the Fab Lab is based.
Thanks to this Academy, I would like to start knowing the website morphology and make it a knowledge step to make a design website.
Making HTML and CSS exercises, I felt like it would be very useful to make on internet a sort of "dictionary" of codes to put in the indentation.
I have been struggling with coding online courses several times, it made me familiar to recognize the general rules of the code, but it didn't made me independednt enough to understand all of the morphology.
I'll take the Fab Academy repository as a workflow journal, and I'm going to annotate not only the points of strenght, but even the points of weakness that I meet in the fabrication process.
Start programming
It has been my first actual HTML operative approach: previously I did just an Udacity: Learn the Latest Tech Skills; Advance Your Career Front-End course.
I picked an existing Fab Academy Template coded by Massimo Menichinelli, and I’m developing a personal web page describing the creative and practical process of the exercises and ideas growing from Fab Academy.
I thought about changing Template some times, thinking that maybe a projec-oriented website having a sort of "portfolio" structure could be better. Having this doubt I spent two weeks trying to make something different, but for my skill level it was becoming too much work, and since "done is better than perfect" I think I'll make the repository keeping this template untill my skills will improve.
I'm aware that having the right template since the beginning would have made the result more coherent and the structure would had been more solid, but I would need more experience making drafty contents, so far it's fine.
Repository
I got started with GIT and the commitment project steps, I started using GitKraken Account: Login , but since its service isn’t fully for free I switched it with Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined.
Thanks to the help of my tutor Antonio I set the repository visualization with Open Editors so that I can access to all the files of the folder directly from the left side bar.
Refresh
As I am not familiar with the language and operation of the web pages, I started learning HTML and CSS again from the beginning, using the freeCodeCamp.org: Learn to code at home online exercises: I found them very clear and useful, the overall interface of the Camp is really good because it permits to make some fundamental baby-steps that I needed to repeat many times to change mindset.
Actually what I find more difficult was finding complete topic-related instructions like "how to make a paragraph and image" of finding the general rules to better insert a photography. I think it would be useful to create a library of codes that would allow to set parameters to create good proportioned pictures, with frames, captions and proportions.
Final project idea: LaBot
This week I started thinking about my final project and how it could be possible to combine digital fabrication with an experiment virtual sociology.
In 20126 I helped the Women's library of Milano to develop a project called Ragazze e Algoritmi, it was a set of conferences where we used to discuss how the research algorithms and the web language is influencing the way we perceive women sexual identity.
Starting from this point, I would like to create a tool to recognize words on the web, and the platform I found more coherent to this aim was Twitter.
Starting from the input given by the data analysis of Twitter, through scripting and Phython, I would like to create an analogical output of this data to visualize the fluctuations of a feminine keyword in Italy.
