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    Week 9 (7/20 - 7/26)

    By Michael Liu

    This week I continued to work on reorganizing the world and remix show pages. The dilemma became that the world show page led to animations, while the remix show page led to worlds. So while the...

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    Week 10 (7/27 - 8/2)

    By Michael Liu

    This Friday we will all be presenting at the Research Experience for Undergraduate Symposium. Genevieve and Reilly are giving more formal talks on what they have done this summer. The rest of us...

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    Looking Glass: The Return to Remixing

    By Michael Liu

    After RA Training, Orientation, and the first few days of school, it’s good to be back in the lab. Over the course of the summer, many ideas were developed for as usable designs for...

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    Answering Questions: Part I

    By Michael Liu

    I think that building remixes up as something that is searchable and reuseable is generally a good idea. New users of Looking Glass can be confused as to how remix is incorporated into programming,...

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    Answering Questions: Part II

    By Michael Liu

    A large part of the discussion last Friday was about the fact that the community portion of Looking Glass has not really been studied as much as the rest of the Looking Glass project. With that in...

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    Answering Questions: Part III

    By Michael Liu

    This week, I continued to read through Caitlin's and Paul's old papers on Looking Glass and remixing. I found a few relevant papers that talke a little about concept libraries, though I'm fairly...

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    ASTs, we meet again!

    By Michael Liu

    I've been sick all week, but it's back to work now!  Last week at our meeting, we talked about going to the science center to work with some more kids to see how they interact with the...

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    UUIDs

    By Michael Liu

    This week was spent working on trying to use UUIDs to identify the properties that we want to include in the AST nodes. I am not completely familiar with the concept of UUIDs, so I spent some of...

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    Sad Day at the Science Center

    By Michael Liu

    This week has been a hectic week and I didn't manage get into the lab a lot. However, on Tuesday, Kyle and I talked with Caitlin for a little bit. UUIDs are probably not the best way to annotate...

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    AST Node Construction

    By Michael Liu

    I spent this week examining the various classes that (I believe) create the AST nodes for Looking Glass. As Caitlin suggested, I began by examining ManagementLevel, which is simply an enumeration...