Zaeeda-SLJ-# Week 3 Day 2 (Cracking The Code)

Week 3: Experiments and Gadgets
Day 2: Cracking The Code
This is the second day and the third week of the summer learning journey. I'm so excited to continue this amazing journey once again. I am also keeping in mind that the top blogger prize this year is a Nintendo switch which is an amazing prize. Enjoy!

Activity 1: Through Careful Observation
For this task we were to choose a picture (We were given 2 options), and observe it closely in order to find out details and what we think it happening in the picture. We then had to share our thoughts and observation on our blog.

We have had many people change the world throughout history. Some have shown how the world works and worked out why it works that way. These people are known as scientist, or theorist. There are many amazing scientists like Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Katherine Freese, Maria Goeppert Mayer and Sau Lan Wu.

Each of those people have changed the world, and it all started with an idea.This is usually followed by the scientific method, which conducts upon a few simple steps. Asking a question, creating a hypothesis, conducting experiments and examining results and asking a new question.

Image Attribution: Day and Night, 1938, by MC Escher. Images courtesy of Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag/the MC Escher Company.

The picture above is called day and Night.

- The picture captures what the town and pretty much the world looks like when it's night and day. However instead of making 2 separate drawings, the artist has combined both, painting making it cross over from day to night.

- The picture lacks color and I honestly, don't think it needs color. The fact that it's painted in black and white make it seem, old, timely and vintage.

- This picture also has an interesting use of shapes too, some parts of the picture is checkered. It reminds me of a chess board, and is quite interesting, I wonder what the painter saw it as.

Activity 2: Overcoming Adversity
For this task we had to write a recount about a time, we or someone we know was face with a challenge, and was brave enough to over come it.

A well known English scientist, named Stephen Hawking studied the origin of the universe. He was born in 1942 and died in 2018, but at the age of 21 he was identified with Motor Neurons Disease. As time past, Stephen Hawking lost the ability to walk, talk and do anything.
However, he did use a wheelchair to get around and with the help of a computer he was able to communicate. His voice sounded a bit funny, and a wheelchair did have it's pros and cons. But at least it was something.
Stephen Hawking lived a long life, and did some amazing things, despite his misfortune. His perseverance, determination and ambition drove him to achieve his dreams, and try his best to overcome the obstacles he was faced with. Where most people would, he didn't quite he kept trying and achieved a lot and lived an amazing life.

My little sister was faced with a challenge last year. When she had a constant ringing in her ears. She had trouble hearing things, and we had to get a specialist to check it out. She didn't sleep for many nights, but continued to try her hardest.

In October she had a surgery, and got miniature tubes in her ears. These we to clear out dust and other grime. My whole family sat 8 hours at the hospital because of that. But the surgery was successful and she can hear exceptionally now.

Yesterday she went on her checkup, and things are going fine and dandy. She will now be completely fine, and her hearing should be better. She has done better in school, and has been able to communicate with us easier.

Activity 3: Hidden Figures
For the last task we had to do some coding, something I am very familiar with. The coding website we used was code.org. We had to start with an easy level and work through each level until it got to hard. We then had to post a screen shot of our shape on our blog, after that we had to write about what we did and didn't like about this coding app.

Ada Lovelace who was born in 1815 was viewed as the first computer programmer. Despite the fact that computers had not been invented yet. This was because she worked out many algorithms that machines used to calculate hard math questions.

Another brilliant mathematician was Katherine Johnson worked with NASA (The North American Space Associations). NASA was in charge of sending people into space using rockets. Katherine's job was to check all the calculations that both Engineers and Astronauts used when they designed the spacecraft and flew into space.

A movie was made about Katherine Johnson in 2016. About her and many other women that worked at NASA during this time. The movie was called Hidden Figures. In the movie the women had to learn how to do basic coding, after NASA started using computers.

I enjoyed using code.org, its a fun and easy to use website. However I did have some trouble getting it to load. I think it may have been my internet or it could've been the fact that I was using a smaller device, but once I did get it to load, it worked fine.

The task were easy but at 1 point it did get exceptionally hard and I couldn't figure out what I needed to do. But thanks to the hints and reading the messages that came up more carefully I did figure out how to do it.

Overall I think this website, is a good way to practice and start learning to code. However if you are thinking of creating

https://scratch.mit.edu/ would be the ideal website to use. My favorite thing about Code.org is that there are easier levels and they get harder as you go along but there are different activities so you could just do the easier level of all the different activities or you could just do the hard levels.

That concludes the second day of this week. I was actually on a road trip so I wasn't able to post, much because of the fact that I had no internet. But I'm back and can't wait to continue doing the summer learning journey!