week 7

OK I have say WOW, this is probably the quickest week of all. I had to start working on all the game reviews, research papers, progress reports, developing the research paper of this program., find a lit review related to gaming and education, and not forget the weekly projects we work on.
this week I starting working on developing email and leader board interfaces.Now the challenge was to work in java script  This is a new language for me. I started developing  clickable and hovering actions on backgrounds, buttons and labels for each interface. This a lot of searching for functions, patience and testing. After so much work, I feel grateful  because I learn and even though I get stuck on this small problems, I can always ask the grad students for help and 98% of the times, these students solve the problem.

week 6

OK so this week that passed was of lot work, fortunately I had already read the two research papers last week so this week I didn't have to worry about this. Working with grad students,we were able to correct the tables that we were working for the bots game. The good part of this week was that we accomplish our goals. we were able to create all the queries for Player's achievements table.Next we were able to implement it to the php code where integrates the queries with other php functions. This will be used to later to upload to the bots game online. In This was a major accomplishment.  It was a huge relief on my part because I was learning new ways of creating queries. I kept a log of all the queries that I have worked on.I also did a game review. The name of the game was Guitar hero II.This was fun due to that I was able to play it in the games lab in the huge screen, which is always a plus. What was particular this week was that we had a bunch of elementary students come to see our lab. We had a good time telling, showing and explaining to the students  about the bots game. Of course we allowed the students to play the game. The most rewarding part was that a few students wanted to keep playing this game in their homes.