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By Aarthi
This is my first post on the Looking Glass Team! I'm excited. So far I've looked over the Looking Glass program a bit and created the beginnings of a world. I've found that the biggest challenge so...
- Sep 06, 2012
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By Aarthi
Hey! So, I thought the first step in this project would be to make a world! Since I have experience with Java, I thought it would be pretty simple. However, I still found that there were times I...
- Sep 14, 2012
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By Aarthi
This past Saturday, I went with Jordana to the Science Center to observe kids using Looking Glass. It was pretty helpful to see firsthand what issues kids had with getting started and understanding...
- Sep 24, 2012
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By Aarthi
This week I am going to make some sketches to help narrow down my focus. A few things I'll be working on are ideas on how to provide more immediate feedback- kids like to see what their action...
- Oct 09, 2012
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By Aarthi
This week I've been continuing with seeing if popups can be helpful in terms of guiding kids to certain actions. I'm now focusing on trying to cement the connection between individual actions...
- Oct 23, 2012
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By Aarthi
This week I made a paper prototype setup for how my popup previews would work. I made representations for "setVehicle" and "resize". In order to do so, I looked through the current posted worlds to...
- Nov 01, 2012
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By Aarthi
Finally got the Codetest framework working. It turns out I had gotten an older version, and once that was fixed, the problems were gone. I'm going to use the option for nonconsecutive ("spread")...
- Nov 09, 2012
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By Aarthi
This week I looked into the world I made and separated it out into potential clips that could be made from it. I tried to get a variety of clips, and evaluate the pros and cons of them. Often I've...
- Nov 16, 2012
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By Aarthi
Over this week I have written code tests that will separate the statements of a World by caller (same caller goes in a set) or separate by action (repeated action goes in a set). Based on the...
- Nov 29, 2012
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Aarthi
I am a computer science student at Washington University. While not studying, I enjoy hanging with friends, playing with my cats, and drinking tea! ^_^
- Joined Sep 05, 2012
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