I am making an app for a client. This is my journal for the experience. Follow along and see how I create it!

Google It!, By Anna Crowley Redding is an amazing book. At its core, The book talks about the history of Google in chronological order. However, the author talks about the history of Google, what Google is right now, in the present, and what Google hopes to be in the future. She does this in a childish and fun way, making this book feel more like fiction than an informative book. The book follows how Larry and Sergey turned what was initially a homework assignment into what Google is now.

The book begins by telling about why Google happened at all: a Ph.D. project, and what lengths they had to go to keep Google running. Then, it tells about a few Google services, how google became a publicly traded company, and other random fun facts, such as the most misspelled words in America. It ends by telling what Google plans to do in the future, and a fun interview recording with Larry and Sergey.

This page was on how I felt about the first few chapters of the book. I chose the Central Idea to be that Larry and Sergey were going to do anything to further their goal at Google. I had not read that far into the book, but I from what I could tell the 2 friends were really dedicated to Google. They were willing to “Permanently borrow” ( steal), and even use Lego bricks instead of actual PC walls.  All of this shows just how much they cared for their creation.

This was a bit later in the book. I had learned of Google’s new motto- Don’t be evil”, and had enough information to write a new Central idea: That a company shouldn’t have to earn profit as its #1 goal. Instead, Making your company based off of making your workers and customers happy should be your main goal.  The motto ” Don’t be evil” helps support my claim.  The book also tells us that Larry and Sergey believed that the “Customer is always right”, and it was their job to help with whatever their needs were. Google also got voted the #1 tech company to work for in the Fortune magazine.

This is a lot later on in the book.  Please ignore the top bit, I had written it in pen and had no way to erase it, so I just left it there. This is my re-read and Research page. I found an interesting bit of information about how Larry and Sergey made a parent company for Google and wanted to know more. I drew a diagram to show some other companies owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. I also researched DWEF or the Davos World Economics Forum.

This was my Central idea summative assessment. I selected the claim “Being appealing and innovative will be the key to creating a successful company”. I chose this because, when I finished the book, I found that Larry and Sergey had supported their workers and tried to get as much creativity and innovation out of them, to the point where they dedicated a whole working day to whatever the workers wanted, as long it was somewhat related to benefit the company.

This is my cause-and-effect relationship chart. I started with a small and simple cause: Eric Schmidt became CEO of Google. The obvious effect is that Google starts making income. That was one of the main points on why they hired him in the first place.  However, my second Cause-and-effect relationship had a bit more effects, since it had a much broader cause, had much, much more effects. The creation of Google led to many positive positive effects and had a cause for that cause: a PHD project.

I had the same idea on the start to finish. I always had a liking for circuit boards, since I was little. I think i always had a fondness for electrical things, and a circuit board was the perfect idea. I had some trouble turning the multiple sketches in fusion, and briefly considered changing my idea into something else, suck as a light bulb, or a lightning bolt. However, i found out that it was taking way too long to trace them into fusion, so i just went into my original plan. I also had a point of self reflection after completely finishing tracing the first design, and after Ms.Kim, my design teacher, told us about the laser width. This worried me, as I  had a very complex design that involved a lot of small spaces where the different parts were close together. However, as I thought through it, I realized that if I made my design bigger, the laser width wouldn’t be a problem. so i did. The first trial cut in cardboard wasn’t successful, as i made my design too small, but i hope that my final would be good enough.

I feel like I grew a lot during this class, now being able to do things i couldn’t even comprehend in the first class. Especially the tracing part, which i found the most difficult, is now so simple the more i look back at it. I first just used the fine point spline to trace. That was super complicated, as sometimes the lines would move even if i moved the thing next to it, so i had to create several lines to just solve one thing.  However, I found out that the lines can just be drawn instantly, and then I can draw the circles, and cut out the intersecting points. I think I improved a lot in light burn too, as the thing felt so complicated but once i figured it out the first time i was able to instantly do it in about a minute the second and third time.

Reflecting back, I think I could have thought through my decisions more quickly, and be more dependent on lines and circles not the fine point spline. Sadly, correcting and deleting the fine point spline over and over took up too much of my time, and I think I could stay a bit more focused when tracing, as I found many small errors in my work. However, I think that the class itself was great, Ms. Kim was a great teacher, and some tips I like to recommend are: 1. Don’t use the spline for circles. Just use the circle tool, and then trim the space you want out. 2. Always make your design much smaller than the outside fingers, ( say, at least 50-60%). 3. Don’t overcomplicate your design, I made that mistake and payed dearly for it. It took way too long to edit the designs, and it will crash fusion over and over.