Today is the very last day of Digital Currents... : ( It's sad to leave but I'm glad to have had the experience. I met alot of really cool people, including the instructors and teaching assistants, and learned alot of really cool things. I can't wait to get Adobe on my own computer, which my dad agreed to buy if I kick in some money.
We did our presentations today and I was amazed at how good some of the apps were. I was also really proud of the work I did with my own. My parents and baby sister came to see the presentation and I think they enjoyed it as well.
I guess this is the last post, so over and out.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Day Fourteen
Today was the forth work day at google, and I finished my final projects. I didn't have time for sound, but other than that I was really pleased with how it turned out. The story goes that Piggy's dream is to buy a boat, but he's a little short on money, so he gets a loan and buys his boat. But then he has to make payments so he's sad. Or Piggy can get a savings account and he saves up for a long, long, long, long time to get his boat. Both have their upsides and downsides, but both ways Piggy gets his boat.
We made an HTML in dreamweaver to publish our projects to the Math Arcade online. Tomorrow we'll present and then Digital Currents is over. I'm kinda bummed, but it was way fun for the time.
We made an HTML in dreamweaver to publish our projects to the Math Arcade online. Tomorrow we'll present and then Digital Currents is over. I'm kinda bummed, but it was way fun for the time.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Day Thirteen
Once again it was another work day at google. I'm completely finished with my animating portion of my project and tomorrow morning I want to add sounds to my project. I'm way excited to finish my project and have something really cool that I worked long and hard on.
Lunch was good, once again, and Elizabeth and I played ping pong afterward. I think I'm getting better, not good, but better than I was.
Umm... that's all.
Lunch was good, once again, and Elizabeth and I played ping pong afterward. I think I'm getting better, not good, but better than I was.
Umm... that's all.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Day Twelve
Day two at google, I got some more work on my project done. I'm excited because it's turning out similar to what I imagined.
We had a speaker today who talked about his job and google in general. That was pretty cool.
That's all.
We had a speaker today who talked about his job and google in general. That was pretty cool.
That's all.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Day Eleven
Today was day one at Google, which was way cool. They have really great food in their cafeteria and lots of fun stuff in the lounge area.
I finished my knol, which is at http://knol.google.com/k/amanda/calclating-interest-with-math/t381cdtbg6m8/2#
I also worked on my final project, which is looking okay at this point. I animated a piggy bank going through a sliding glass door and did some of the prep work for the coding to make all of the different buttons do different things. Ummm... I guess that's all for today.
I finished my knol, which is at http://knol.google.com/k/amanda/calclating-interest-with-math/t381cdtbg6m8/2#
I also worked on my final project, which is looking okay at this point. I animated a piggy bank going through a sliding glass door and did some of the prep work for the coding to make all of the different buttons do different things. Ummm... I guess that's all for today.
Specification for the Final Project
Manifesto:
My project is going to be an amplified version of the interest application, based on a story of a piggy bank getting a loan and starting a savings account. I think my application will help people learn the value of saving money and the power of a seemingly insignificant 5% interest on a loan. The original application was just a calculator with a simple graphic of money s[inning around a wheel. I plan to add a graphic of a piggy bank walking towards the bank on the calculator page. When you hit the calculate button on the savings account page I would like a small animation of a piggy bank getting a savings account, making deposits and having money in the bank to play. When you hit the calculate button on the loan page I want an animation of a piggy bank getting a loan buying a boat, then having to make payments on the loan to play. The actual calculator and basic programming of my application will be the same as the original application.
Art:
The art and graphics portion of my project is mainly an animation of a piggy bank going to a bank and getting a loan and savings account. I am making the piggy bank graphics on Photoshop by taking a picture of a piggy bank off the internet and tracing over and adding a watercolor filter to it. The effect is rather cartoony, rather than using an actual picture. I will be animating my graphics on flash by using armatures and motion tweens in nested animations. The upside of the nested animations is that the timeline won’t be as cluttered and therefore won’t interfere with the code. I have a feeling that the actual animating of the piggy bank will be the hardest part of the project, as I want to draw the piggy bank walking, dancing and receiving/giving money. It will be majorly time-consuming, but I think the end result will be really great.
Applied Math:
My math uses the math of interest with both savings accounts and loans. Interest is the fee that either the bank pays you to keep your money there or the fee that you pay the bank to get a loan. With a savings account you put a set amount of money into a bank account at an interval, such as every month. The equation for calculating how much money you will have in your savings account after a set amount of time is: A=PMT*((1+APR/n)^(n*y)-1/ (APR/n) ), where PMT is the amount of money you deposit at each interval, APR is the interest rate (in decimals), n is the number of deposits you make per year, and y is the number of years your savings account is for. So when you plug all of those variables into the equation you can find A, the total amount of money that you will have in your savings account after n years. For a loan the equation is different because you’re calculating how much you pay per month, and you already know how much you took out. PMT= (P(APR/n)/1-(1+APR/n)^(-n*y)), where PMT is your monthly payment, APR is the interest rate, n is the number of payments you make per year, and y is the number of years you want to pay off your loan in. Both equations are simple enough once you know them and the application will allow you to plug in the variables and it will calculate the answers for you.
Programming:
The programming for my application includes the original work and some additions that I wil be adding in. The original coding for the math portion, in which the application calculates interest will be kept the same. I’ll add some gotoandplay functions so I can have a title page with buttons for each calculator and the calculate buttons will cue the animation to play. I’m not exactly sure how to do this as of this point, but I think it sounds possible. The original programming that makes the calculator work is var A:Number= PMT*((Math.pow(1+APR/n,n*Y)-1)/(APR/n)); This is programming language for PMT times the 1+APR/n to (n*y) -1, all of that over APR/n. So the original equation for a savings account is then understood by the application so that it can do the math for you.
My project is going to be an amplified version of the interest application, based on a story of a piggy bank getting a loan and starting a savings account. I think my application will help people learn the value of saving money and the power of a seemingly insignificant 5% interest on a loan. The original application was just a calculator with a simple graphic of money s[inning around a wheel. I plan to add a graphic of a piggy bank walking towards the bank on the calculator page. When you hit the calculate button on the savings account page I would like a small animation of a piggy bank getting a savings account, making deposits and having money in the bank to play. When you hit the calculate button on the loan page I want an animation of a piggy bank getting a loan buying a boat, then having to make payments on the loan to play. The actual calculator and basic programming of my application will be the same as the original application.
Art:
The art and graphics portion of my project is mainly an animation of a piggy bank going to a bank and getting a loan and savings account. I am making the piggy bank graphics on Photoshop by taking a picture of a piggy bank off the internet and tracing over and adding a watercolor filter to it. The effect is rather cartoony, rather than using an actual picture. I will be animating my graphics on flash by using armatures and motion tweens in nested animations. The upside of the nested animations is that the timeline won’t be as cluttered and therefore won’t interfere with the code. I have a feeling that the actual animating of the piggy bank will be the hardest part of the project, as I want to draw the piggy bank walking, dancing and receiving/giving money. It will be majorly time-consuming, but I think the end result will be really great.
Applied Math:
My math uses the math of interest with both savings accounts and loans. Interest is the fee that either the bank pays you to keep your money there or the fee that you pay the bank to get a loan. With a savings account you put a set amount of money into a bank account at an interval, such as every month. The equation for calculating how much money you will have in your savings account after a set amount of time is: A=PMT*((1+APR/n)^(n*y)-1/ (APR/n) ), where PMT is the amount of money you deposit at each interval, APR is the interest rate (in decimals), n is the number of deposits you make per year, and y is the number of years your savings account is for. So when you plug all of those variables into the equation you can find A, the total amount of money that you will have in your savings account after n years. For a loan the equation is different because you’re calculating how much you pay per month, and you already know how much you took out. PMT= (P(APR/n)/1-(1+APR/n)^(-n*y)), where PMT is your monthly payment, APR is the interest rate, n is the number of payments you make per year, and y is the number of years you want to pay off your loan in. Both equations are simple enough once you know them and the application will allow you to plug in the variables and it will calculate the answers for you.
Programming:
The programming for my application includes the original work and some additions that I wil be adding in. The original coding for the math portion, in which the application calculates interest will be kept the same. I’ll add some gotoandplay functions so I can have a title page with buttons for each calculator and the calculate buttons will cue the animation to play. I’m not exactly sure how to do this as of this point, but I think it sounds possible. The original programming that makes the calculator work is var A:Number= PMT*((Math.pow(1+APR/n,n*Y)-1)/(APR/n)); This is programming language for PMT times the 1+APR/n to (n*y) -1, all of that over APR/n. So the original equation for a savings account is then understood by the application so that it can do the math for you.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Day Ten
Today, being a Friday, was a workday. It was our last day at CU, so we had lunch at the Sink, a pizza place. It was really cool because of all the murals on the wall and the low ceilings.
Then we played frisbee and that was also way cool, but it was HOT out.
I'm super excited for the final project, because I actually have an idea about what I'm gonna do. I plan on amping up the interest app by adding a mini cartoon about a piggy bank.
That's all.
Then we played frisbee and that was also way cool, but it was HOT out.
I'm super excited for the final project, because I actually have an idea about what I'm gonna do. I plan on amping up the interest app by adding a mini cartoon about a piggy bank.
That's all.
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