Matrix no.: A166745

Week: 03

Date: 15/7 – 21/7/2021

 

In the third week, I managed to create my first Lens which is Face Lens Basic Templates, and publish it on Lens Studio. As mentioned in the second module(week), the Face Lens adds Augmented Reality (AR) elements to the user's face via the phone's front camera. This type of lens changes the look of the user's face, thus the name Face Lens. Hence in this week, I could take this opportunity to create and practice several lenses such as Distort Template, Sunglasses Template, and Segmentation Template. I also managed to experience creating a Cutout Template that creating a World Lens by importing just a 2D image or animation. A cutout includes movement, scale, rotation, shadow, and the ability to always look at the camera. Multiple Cutouts can be added to the Lens allowing us to create a 3D scene with movable 2D objects.

 

Based on my doing tutorial, I am still overwhelmed by the vast information and I am going to use some time to digest the things that are just being taught. After applying the guide by the instructor, I felt that it is very tiring to complete a lens as one has to pay a lot of attention to every detail ad be a focus.

 

I am grateful that I picked this as my elective posting because I truly enjoy it and can increase my creativeness and talent.

 

There at times where I learned to make crucial decisions to make my project more powerful. First, it was picking the main theme of my face lens. Other than that, I had to choose different types of animation and templates to make my lens more colorful and interesting.  

 

I have no problems regarding time management, I could say since this project is done during my semester break. I learned how to prioritize and allocate my time for my project and other important things.

 

To complete this online course, I had to submit my creature of the lens. It will be viewed and evaluate by the course organizer and the rest of my coursemates. So, I had to do several experiments on my tutorials to ensure my end product is very attractive and successful.

 AW JIA WEN

A172044

(5/7/2021 - 11/7/2021)

 

2. Your progress so far

My progression went super well! I have learnt more techniques day by day.From lecture 5, I learnt that we can create a project that behaves differently depending on what choices the user makes by creating “if” block or “if/else” block. While for lecture 6, I learnt that we are able to repeat the block multiple times by using “forever” block instead of keep clicking. On them multiple times.

3. Your feelings and thoughts 

 I was delighted when I unlocked all these new techniques as I was able to create more interesting projects then. Before that I had lots of ideas but I don’t have idea on how to apply them into the project but now I am improved day by day.

4. How did you learn and apply the skill of decision making in your EP journey?

I still face difficulties throughout my EP journey and it is very important for me to decide whether I need to put certain elements into my project by keep exploring or ask myself to be patience and wait for the next class. I decided to set a time limit to allow myself to explore and one I exceed the time limit, I will stop exploring the additional element and finish the task given first.

 

5. How did you manage your time throughout this EP journey? 

  I decided to set a time limit to allow myself to explore as much as I want and once I exceed the time limit, I will stop exploring the additional elements and finish the task given first.

 

6. Your plan for next week (Week 4)

I will attend lecture 7 and 8 which are Variables and Abstraction.

Matric’s number : A168360

Week : 3 (15/7/21-21/7/21) 

 

My third week went well & smooth! I’ve managed to keep on track. In the 3^rd week of this posting, I have successfully ventured even deeper on another two intellectual property rights, which are ‘copyrights’ & ‘trade secrets’. Theoretically, copyright protects the original work of authorship. Such works are literature, drawings, paintings, songs, musics, computer software, film, photos and a lot more, whereas trade secret is any valuable information that is not publicly known or well-guarded secret, for example ingredients used in their food products, business methods, customer and so on. I managed to get so much information from various websites available too, which explain in detail about these two intellectual property rights. My supervisor also has enlightened me well. Since I have covered all of the four intellectual property rights, I was asked to differentiate those rights in details with example in my presentation.

 

I am incredibly honoured and delighted for being able to learn so much from my supervisor and his staffs in his company. They treated me well and entertained every questions I asked. However, it would’ve been more interesting if I can go and see how they operate the company physically.

 

I learnt the skill of decision making a lot from my supervisor. He even assisted me in preparing my weekly presentations whenever things are doubtful. He also gave me quite many interesting cases for me to come out with decision in order to polish my skill in decision making in this elective posting.

 

How did you manage your time throughout this EP journey? 

I decided to set a time limit for every tasks I was assigned for so that I can keep on track. I also came out with a daily to-do list so that I will be better reminded of the activities I should be doing every single day and I do not miss any of it.

 

Siti Aisyah Binti Zailani
A168269
11 August 2021 - 17 August 2021

CURRENT PROGRESS
I have finally finished the basics and must-know lessons for CSS and I did some review on HTML because I need both CSS and HTML to create a website. I have also started to draft some ideas for my output and have been browsing Pinterest for inspiration.

FEELINGS & THOUGHTS
I am still feeling a little overwhelmed after trying to cram HTML and CSS in three weeks. However, I am thankful that this posting was introduced during my semester break because it allows me to be productive. I am looking forward to building a website from the scratch next week.

HOW DID I LEARN & APPLY THE DECISION MAKING SKILL IN THE EP JOURNEY?
I understand that it is impossible to learn everything about HTML and CSS in a month, but my goal was to have a basic understanding and insights of the must-know information about HTML and CSS. In order to do so, I've decided to use w3schools instead of codecademy as done in weeks 1 and 2. And, given my limited knowledge, I must plan well for my website as my project output that able to reflect well my ability and effort throughout the journey without having the website looking too boring.

HOW DID I MANAGE THE TIME THROUGHOUT THE EP JOURNEY?
I have utilized the Kanban method to keep track of my progress and manage my time effectively. Each week, I've set specific goals for myself. For example, in the first week, I will primarily concentrate on HTML, and by the second week, I should have completed the fundamentals of HTML and will begin working on CSS.

PLANS FOR WEEK 4
I plan to focus on preparing a website this final week and do some review on the lessons on HTML and CSS. 

 

 Phan Yong Hong A172063  (14/7/2021-20/7/2021)

For this week, I have learnt about how important it is to build one-to-one relationships with our customer on social media platform. It does bring us a lot of benefit : increase awareness of our brand using word-of-mouth, increase customer’s loyalty to our brand and most significantly, to amplify our brand. I’ve also gained some tips on how to engage with our customers to get their attention and trust online. I learnt that most customers want a authentic voice to speak to them, not to talk to robot when they engage in our brand’s/product’s conversation. I also learnt about social customer service, or most referred as social care, what they do and how they’re helpful in facing customers. Besides, I did also learnt about what is service-level agreement (SLA), which I never heard of it even after using various of social media platform for years. Last but not least, I’ve learn about different social media and how company actually used them to advertise their brands and what metrics do they used on each of the platform to measure their performances.

 I felt quite shocked about this week as I’ve realised that I know so less about the real system behind of all these social media marketing and it’s actually so relatable in our daily life. For example, the shopping application Shopee and its reviews (which is so common during this pandemic), is actually one of the tactics they used in marketing to amplify and gain one-to-one relationships on social media. If there’s any positive reviews on the product/brand, those reviews automatically become word-of-mouth and actually doing a huge favour for them by indirectly creating brand awareness to the society. And the best part is, the shopee coins is one way for them to reward those customers that actively engage in their advertisement! So interesting right?

By the knowledge I’ve gain this week, I can successfully analyse each company/brands and their tactics to engage in social media marketing and social selling. 

I had a schedule for the learning material I got and manage them accordindly and keep them in a file to ease my revision. I mostly did my learning in the day and do a brief revision on what I’ve highlighted during the day at night.

 

Week 4 is the last week for this course and there’s an exam waiting for me. I will finish the learning material as early as possible so I will have more time to revise the whole course again before the exam in order to get the certificate.

 

1.     Your progress so far

 

This week, I learn what causes bugs in a program and how to debug or fix the problems faster. Since making the perfect code is often time challenging, so learning on ways to handle errors are crucial. For example, when one part of the program encounter errors, I can make it so that it stops running or I can raise an exception so the program can recover from it and thus keep running as intended. Also related to this, I also learned about logging which is a great way to keep track to how the program runs.

 

 

2.     Your feelings and thoughts

 

As expected, the early part of the lessons can still be confusing but I have gotten used to python enough to make sense of some of the things. My thoughts for this week, I’m feeling that my programming knowledge has come a long way since I not only learn to program but also to fix errors, which gives me a sense of accomplishment. I’m nowhere to being skillful enough to code on command but I’m happy with my progress so far.

 

3.     How did you learn and apply the skill of decision making in your EP journey?

 

One main thing that test my decision-making skill is how to delegate my time for each lesson. Sometimes, a lesson is too challenging for me hence I can get stuc on one part

 

4.     How did you manage your time throughout this EP journey?

 

In the course I’m taking, there are multiple sections to cover which I have divided into roughly 2 or 3 sections per week. But in terms of when I learn, its usually not a set time and I tried to learn whenever I’m free. One issue I had with time is that I might get stuck on one part of lesson for too long because I feel the material is sometimes too hard to understand.  I had this problem since the first 2 weeks which I knew I need to fix somehow. So to fix this, I simply introduced other complementary materials so I can understand better usually through tutorial videos.

 

5.     Your plan for next week

 

I will finish off the remaining lessons in this course and practice one of each automation task at least once.