Week 6 - Teammate Capstone Ideas, Weekly Reflection, Final Video Project Progress

        My teammates and I are on a similar wavelength when it comes to formulating ideas for our Capstone projects. There are about 3 main umbrellas of software projects that we have discussed where we mostly or all have some intersecting interest in learning more about the topic or wish to work on it further. Firstly, we are all interested in applications or sites that offer a service, projects that became highly marketable tools were both impressive in their presentation and creation. We were discussing an interest-based matching service that is strictly platonic and meant to build communities locally, as well as a teammate's highly sophisticated cookbook app which would automate a lot of the research process for new or tried and true recipes. There is a lot of embedded software engineer work out in the world and this teammate already holds a job in this field so an opportunity to learn more about that from an amazing and intelligent source would be invaluable if we go that direction instead! As a creative at my core, I have a lot of unused story concepts, visual art concepts, and even atmospheric music projects that all could be rolled up nicely into an independently developed game which another teammate is also quite interested in.

        This week was a deeply practical batch of learning for what to prepare for when it comes to the job market and what budding software engineers can expect to need to know when it comes to navigating the work-hunt space. I definitely have a long way to go before my resume is much more impressive than it currently is, but that isn't to say I wouldn't plead my case to a potential employer. While I have only worked in roughly five languages for nearly two years, my passion for knowledge and natural drive to be a useful employee has carried me in professional spaces where I needed to shape up in a new way quickly. Looking at the software design preview had me running through a few of the Java challenges, coding up the prompts in IntelliJ was a much-enjoyed revisiting of computer science problem solving that I haven't engaged much with in the last eight weeks. 

    My teammates and I have begun a living document with the proposed organization of our final video and have portioned out responsibilities for our respective research and narration that we will be accountable for. We have a to-do list sheet as well where we are brainstorming ways to make the video more engaging for our audience. I am happy with my section as the history of the internet and internet access with its accompanying physical and institutional limitations is fascinating and gives me more context to an aspect of computer science that I am not fully familiar with. 

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