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  Part 1: Review Other Teams' final video projects As if you are their presentation coach, review the videos produced by three teams - including the two listed below yours in the share google doc "CST 300 Final Presentation Topic" and one of your choice.  You are encouraged to review more.  If your project is listed at the end, select the team at the top, so every team is reviewed by at least two others. Insert the link of the video and your evaluation and suggestion to your learning journal. Optional: You can also insert your evaluation and suggestions directly to their youtube video page as comments.  Be constructive!   The evaluation should include, but is not limited to  1. is the topic well covered?  2. is the presentation clear? 3. how is the quality of the research? 4. how is the quality of the video production? 5. is the video engaging and interesting? 6. is the team work evident? 7. is the video appropriate to the audience (either general publ...

Part One  Regarding our team final research video project planning, we collaborated in our weekly meetings by setting deadlines, creating a gameplan, talking about expectations such as what we're expected to present. We also went over what tools we're going to utilize, which is google docs - PowerPoint and OBS Studio. One of my colleagues created the professional PowerPoint, and I am in charge of the general population PowerPoint. The process is going smooth, other than two of the colleges not turning in their video/audio recording. Thankfully, we still have some time until it is due. What I'll do next in next large collaborative project is set certain requirements or template we'll use, such as cameras being on, length of video clip and try to have a more detailed scope of work. Part Two In this week lectures we learned about the importance of presentation skills. The ability to present ideas properly are essential skills in any trade. e.g.: tech, sales, marketing,...

Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas  During our team meeting we discussed the following ideas:  An app for kids to enjoy learning computer science. A system that suggests good movies and shows An AI game for kids to enjoy learning math and reading vehicle maintenance logging mobile app virtual gift card store A smart irrigation system that takes factors such as the weather, humidity, existing moisture in the soil, etc. and provides enough water for the vegetation.  The ideas that stood out the most to me was the vehicle maintenance logging mobile app because our vehicles are important assets that assist us in traveling for work, enjoyment, emergencies. If one maintains their vehicle in top condition, the chances of it breaking down on oneself lessens.  Part 2: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal This week I learned the basic fundamentals of Java thanks to the document that was shared via...

  Flavio Cervantes CST300-30_2252 Week 5 Learning Journey Part One: Support and Comment on Teammates' Goals (30 minutes) URL #1: https://wootarkkim.blogspot.com/2025/01/csumb-week-3-22-jan-2025-28-jan-2025.html Comments regarding educational/career goals – Greetings, hope you are doing well. I really enjoyed reading your career goals, being a data, ML, or software engineer are all great options. There is a great demand for all of them, especially if one masters it, then we can have a great career! I myself also want to dive into Software engineering, but machine learning engineer also sounds very appealing since its in the realm of AI and Language learning models, I’ll do some more discovery into this field.   Regarding your educational goals, becoming a TA or obtaining an internship is a great idea. Teaching others is a great way to master a respective technology. I encourage you to do a capstone that you truly enjoy, it will make the experience way better. Good...

  Flavio Cervantes CST 300 February 5, 2025 The interview regarding Industry Expert Interview – Exploring Career Paths and Industry Trends entailed interviewing Aaron Vines, his job title is “supervisor at Inland Empire Health Plan”. The reason why I selected this person is because he has extensive experience in the IT industry, at one point of his career he was a director at a managed service provider, and is now a supervisor for an IT department at his current job role. He also is very intelligent in a technical manner, many colleagues, including myself go up to him for guidance. He has a great understanding on how technology works with respect to software and hardware. Key takeaways from these conversations are the career advice he provided by explaining that sometime we can start our careers doing something unrelated to the final career we finally chose. He started as a banker, and is now in IT management industry. This reminds us it is a marathon, not a race.  ...