Java - crawling pace uphill...

 An amazing follow-up or intro for C# programming: Java

Learning Java was similar to C#, with minor differences. I realize, learning this many languages in a short amount of time, feels like a slur that is sloshing alongside the campus walls of memory deficits from not attaining a decent rhythm. I would love to work on a project longer than 3 weeks and develop the proper questions. It is so difficult for me to logically and internally decide the perfect path. The process of building the connections between each step that must occur, while exception handling, and as a new set of eyes on it... I realize, I need more time studying and planning each program I write based on a personal commitment to finish my tasks. 

Wow - if I could give advice here for someone struggling with completing the programs with the amount of time provided: Don't rush it, learn it, and do what you can. Regardless, it's about actually knowing the material and not taking the keywords, terminology, or the extra effort for exercises or research to clarify something being read from material. But, with time management, also at comfortable leisure to stay focus towards the task. Don't be afraid to fail, just apply yourself to gain more insight on the subject to remain familiar with it (these should also be half price for return students, Kinds've pricey).

I would actually recommend Java as a foundational language before C#, JavaScript, however - since they all intertwine with relatable concepts - your choice is as good as any other developers first pick. 

I used Eclipse IDE for Java developers, SQLite, and JDBC for SQLite in my projects throughout this course. I am working to improve the IDE experience with IntelliJ IDEA and SQLite with my final project that I didn't get to completely finish and use Eclipse as a tester IDE. I am looking on different ways to keep my code functional (since I have issues with debug working properly for me) and to structure with tabular testing at minimal in mind. 

I just need more practice! I haven't had time to do much extra since this past course, which I am not too confident in. As soon as you get the hang of things, it ends, and I end up moving into other skillset development which helps it being used in other courses (but its one of those things where you wish you had these skills beforehand) - simply, nothing you can do about it other than knowing self-improvement is also appreciating the time for self-glorification. 

__Mischief

Internship - Career - Dreams

 Career Planning and Career Development Titles

    As an underrepresented candidate for any IT specialist position, I want to utilize all of my education and go forth the effort to enact Tsha Tewahsana (Its In The Middle) as a religious entity to accept worship services and religious doctrines to help with diversification in America models of civilization into the future agendas we see ourselves gaining foot in each day. Pursuing a B.A. or B.S. in Religious Studies or Theology with minors in IT courses that specify in binary computations and machine firmware technologies will aid that realistic dream of erecting a church in something I believe in is foundational to the future of my descendants. But not just for them to believe in, but for the world for them to exist in, as a world of study and improving upon with deliberate, willful choices made and lived. 

    The real reason I got into the IT industry was to pursue a small goal of building a slot machine. It grew further with enjoying the logical concepts I designed but came to a halting experience of learning another disposition to fuel the momentum to develop something new in the software development field. That meant learning and investing in it. 

    In my attempts, I've gained more knowledge in programming techniques, skills, knowledge, concepts, teamwork, and realize that this is not so far-fetched to do. I think spending time with an actual robot and programming it to do factorial maneuvers helped me realize that invention often oversees a mistake of physical limitation to endure. I have worked assembly lines before and know what those people go through, the pay they get, and what it means to have the job. Learning this material is a shock of how many that surrounded me did not know any of it or strived to learn it to improve their life. I want to make it accessible and understandable for them to consider it common knowledge at some point. It is shocking to think in an underrepresented community how much less of an impact we are making in the world and why population wouldn't matter on it. It's about having the representation to form an opinion of. We do not have many professionals in most fields in Native American populations as they struggle with transitioned lifestyles and cultural preservation. IT topics typically do not arise at the dinner table. 

    I understand what I am going to encounter in my future as an elder and preparing for it now is devastating to think what we are leaving behind in social conformity research with undergoing trauma, oppression, and guilt for blood thickener. We all have to conform at some point, that's just America. I suggest, doing it the only way I know how and reporting on it through curriculum, life learned lessons, and epiphany journaling until I can publish material that can contend with ancient philosophical correspondence to foundation. 

   

Career Title [that does not exist]

    IT development representation is minimal in Native American communities. I plan on being someone who will be able to transition Native American teachings into Computational Studies upon completion of the B.A. in Religious Studies. One goal of mine is to travel the Country and assist Native American communities with what they need with my skillsets. I know that with the MMIW campaign there are no database designs for Native Americans in some regions of America and the enacting process to keep them safe and identified has not been awarded with self-defense courses, advice on safety, and check-in location hubs for safety concerns. All of this is accessible with an app, database infrastructure, and plenty of time to monitor. 

    This is an over-achieving goal and extensive research is needed as one person. So, gaining the interest and teaching transitional material to provide them a great opportunity is the main priority for my career title that does not exist yet. I need help.

Internship [coming soon!]

    Currently searching for one and wanting to get hired on fully. I am looking for places to settle into a bachelor's program area of interest and perusing my options. I am nervous, I lack experience, skill, and terrible at navigating tools yet. More practice and more ambition is needed. It might be recoiling effects that are causing tides of change to forecast different favors in my mind. I just want to remind anyone reading this (maybe recruiter) that I have no mentorship that I can relate to in teaching to accept some of the material as historical reference can put it together (programming language and mechanics) so nicely for others. The language barriers are minimal, it is the concepts that are unfavorable. I have to learn it the hard way since there is no mentorship to understand what my question is - I have trouble formulating what my issue is for not understanding sometimes. Which is difficult to contend with in this field but when I can identify it - everything works in its prime state. 

I am a work in progress that will most likely be used as a bridge to a gap of learning style underrepresented in the IT field. Thank you for the patience ahead of time!

This is an informal post. A small explanation on my GPA, perhaps. I've never endured less than 3.0, heck, might even be less than 3.9. Studying in this program has been a challenge and it is something I want to continue pursuing in my religious studies curriculum with Native American Binary Mathematics. 

__Mischief

2024 Holiday Season Closure

 I began reading a new book called "Teach Your Kids to Code: A parent-friendly guide to python programming" by Bryson Payne from no starch press in San Francisco, and excited to run some of the programs. I downloaded Python, but the window to run the code in goes absent. Hopefully, there's no cringing moment later on this in regard to maintaining the health of my download history. 

I finished reading another book by Joe Schmit called "Silent Impact: Stories of influence through purpose, persistence, & passion" which is a local debut to me. The small town shop I purchased it in is mentioned in the book and is signed. I recall now that I just wanted to check the price but ended up buying it. Good read and motivator to continue pursuing a publishing of my own. 

The last 10K I did this year was with Appleton's and Miron Company's "Fox Valley Marathon" where I did a tribute to my late mother, in regard to Cancer Research and Treatment. It was amazing and I am looking forward to next year's race already!

During this year, I received my Robotics Certificate, survived ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework and refueled my interest/ambition with C# and the .NET Framework, and best of all - I learned of a specialty to pursue as an Embedded Software Developer working with machines and environments for AI. 

Hopefully you're warm, safe, and enjoying the holiday spirit!

__Mischief

C# Part 2: Projected Fails As a List

A self-evaluation of C# Part 2 at NWTC Fall 2024 semester. I had dreaded this course and OOP Programming in general as an expertise or specialty (which I want to commit to, by the way) due to the learning phase of it. Learning phases of something you want are confusing - you don't dread it; you are in a foundational mentality that lively hosts for how much you lack in comparison.

C# Part 2: Projected Fails

• Teamwork tasks incomplete, incomprehensible, undirected
• Resource gathering speed was not fast enough
• Internal built-in feature list is null
• Prioritizing schedule and time management

Pros : Projected Fails (Yes.. like a class. We are defining the positive outcomes with the projected fails list to offset and include how I somehow made up for it!)

• I was able to follow a template of instructional documentation (which I also suffer with writing, instructionally, since my first class back into college from my Social Science degree in 2013. I just got done with an IT Documentation course and was following this structure. However, the details entailed within the actual programming of a game, was nothing like an agile framework. Agile framework is the coordination of team environments to collaborate effectively for that time management. The actual task you commit to is entirely different structuring in the program - paying attention to this part was being more involved. I understood what was happening up to a point and once you lose track of the even further details in those processes of planning the program, the more difficult it is to maintain your developer role. 
• Spend the extra time researching C# tools, built-in features, and other relevant articles outside of documentation to reveal new coding hacks, tricks, tips. It's worth taking a dabble in. I would often get distracted, interested, and that information was useless because I wasn't using it. Take the time to find where that will be useful and place it there for you to review and use at that time. 
• Developing the perfect questions. Before you can do this, you are resolving with solutions to put a tangible essence with the code for the program to operate as it should. This part, I shadowed my teammates as they talked through their processes. It helped me envision how they were solving a bug, logic, or invoke method crises. Don't be afraid to let the group know you are falling behind in making sense of what to do next. Don't worry too much about how to get your code to work from theirs, at this point. Do the code. Share. Then everyone can figure out how to instill your code into the project together. 

Team project #1 with 4 members was tough with GitHub as a first-time user of it. My files would be unfound, too many changes without maintaining a push/pull commit flow for only making minor changes or reading code or outlining something minimal as an undone forced commit. I did ruin the project towards the end but was able to fix it though! 

It was rough, I don't know how they did it. But it was a good learning experience for me. I truly enjoy learning in this program and want to continue to improve. Making notes of this now will help me recollect my future progress to recall how to help the next person in their beginning steps. 

Yaw^!

__Mischief

Just do it.

The only way to know, is to do it!

Going into my C# Part 2 course and IT Training this term, coming from A results in my first half with ASP.NET working with MVC techniques and IT Documentation. I will be in a team environment with my C# Part 2 doing a game project with specific tasks each week. In the other course I will be doing presentations and training engagements to critique our group assemblage events as a host/presenter. All of this is relevant for learning in the Software Developer Program at NWTC. 

I began reading more documentation and relying more of my comprehension and study "tone" to have the documentation perspective, rather another blog or social media article that is characterized for fun, sales pitch, or otherwise positivity in general. Another tip for what to do or what to think like when doing a study session - is important. It helps you absorb the content, remember it, and adjust to your space as that learning environment. Teaching yourself to iterate within your own context or guidelines helps bridge later updates in terminology, change in software documentation style/deliverance, or anything that you disagree with personally (you can correct this yourself to accept - bypassing the dissonance cognitive effects that may or may not happen).

Before you do it, talk to someone that has been through it (learning how to code, going into IT, building a career) and what advices they have or would change in their understanding of the material. At best, most guidance will suggest to just immerse yourself and adjust as you can. The majority of subjects that you can excel in academically is easy money but for how many others like you? Looking at the statistics, what will be needed, and the AI competitive edge for learning skills and who isn't needed in the company later provide us with what should be learned today. 

I write this blog for readers who are interested, brand new, or in any point in their career can remember that there are many underrepresented minorities out there trying to understand from an entirely different mindset. I want you to know the types of questions I have about what I am learning and to maintain transparency for the pioneerism involved where in comparison to other categories is about 1% representation. We are coming from a different value system (remarkably) and teaching methods (generational adjustments). One of the ethno-study objectives I have learned with my first associates degree in social science is that the cultural exchange is not done yet. Now that we have transitioned into an American culture of technology, the intake of world philosophies templates are available and we are just beginning to study and compare with our own perspectives. 

For all the Natives who ever wanted to bring purpose to cultural revitalization whom are interested in doing the interpretation in comparison, with our own scope, and without any other intention than each of their own re-learning a tone in their touch to the stars. We may not have it that way, so we have to converge as one without interfering with personal guidance in public parameters. The influence is plentiful and without the time or audacity to create the scope itself to measure up with. 

Don't be afraid to be who you are and what you believe in. 

Just do it. Probably the best quote for action impediment. 

__Mischief 

Welcome to Gravacity!

I have been anticipating my C#-Part 2 NWTC course in the second term of the Fall Semester and within it, a game I must develop as a team. I have been reading Entity Framework 2.x, watching different youtube channels on project management and expectations of roles to fulfill or maneuver around on a professional level, and really paying attention to my ASP.NET material to carry over. I know this isn't enough but even thinking in story modes, challenges, point of the game is proving to be a time cruncher! I have been sketching multiple different game scenarios and I still am not satisfied! I think its good but sit on it for a day and turn around to tossing everything out to be left with the bare bones. 

I also find this interesting for the game creation dilemma of using IGT SDK (Software Developer Kits) to do this in my future career in the gaming industry for casino engineering (which, technically, there is none at this point). I began with this intention and I do want to fulfill it. I firstly want to do this and then create a testing facility for other software developers in the gaming industry to create one. I think its commendable, rejuvenating, fun, and can pivot a developer into a career they want with experience in networking, revenue creation, bug fixes, project management, preventative maintenance code, and more!

Idea 1:

Welcome to Gravacity! is the name I wanted to use for a scenario of using storage techniques in the form of a game. I wanted to see how relative database structures with connecting based on the file system archiving could be handled within range. So, once the storage size couldn't be reached any further, how did the system auto-correct itself without needing to be defragmented by initially installing connections with a different imagery involved. The platform we are working with is unknown (fingers crossed for Entity Framework) so I generally have an idea of what I am working with since I know its going to take me longer than other active programmers. But, the world coordinates and basic C# structures shouldn't be too much of an issue - however, in ASP.NET I seem to be recursing a navigation mishap! 

Anyways, the sketches are trying to: add, add, add, values, add, add, add, values, and add to the first values again without breaking the pattern. Gravity + C# or Gravity + Storage/Memory spaces in a city like idea of laying down the foundation and trying to modify it afterwards as the impossible in explaining the name and concept of game. 

Idea 2:

I had another sketch of tic-tac-toe, using a current model for curriculum I'm working on with binary neutralities and how a perfect binary combination could be disrupted - by understanding and configuring the start/end series as how the flipping switch occurs. This might be more difficult in a series binary sequence to interpret so I began working with a tic-tac-toe grid in a game. 

It's decent but still not working as I would like it to. 

Logic concept lacks quality, connection to educational goals is missing, and putting in a slot reel video game is not really ideal either. 

Did you know in a tic-tac-toe grid, the only non-fluid boxes are in tac (tic and toe are corners where they contain both positive and negative if all directions are inclusive - counter and clockwise). 

Idea 3: 

Just stick to random number generators in a game.

That's as far as I got. Still working on it. Enjoying this process thoroughly! I wish I could talk to my son about this, he would definately have more insight as a qualified specialist on the subject. He is who inspires this genre within programming with me and why I would love to create a game with him someday. We started with story boards - a character named Conekli. It might have been too little too late for that relationship and it faltered. Hopefully we can pick it up later, for his offspring might want something entertaining from us to step forward with in their own expertise. You never know. I'm just glad to be preparing for those days now!

__Mischief

Little to No Experience - Personal Statement

 Little to No Experience..

What qualifies you in 2024 going into 2025 as a mentorship advocate is a role that you take on for reasons only you know. I am preparing to take the next step with the community group I started last year (2023) during my peer-to-peer ratio calculations and realized I have been outside of my Indigenous community and out of touch with many factors that create belonging, duty, and dependability traits that reflect onto generational reputations that we rely on for multiple stronghold character notations. I began the group right away, setting up a location, showing up, starting the blog, writing another one alongside this one. I didn't want to seem over-indulged by promoting myself and this gem of a keepsake during this journey so I began an entirely new group to help others shine in their own personal interests and self-taught technological bearings. 

It's been difficult getting feedback, participants, and response overall. There isn't interest in IT Field topics and I'm not sure if its responded well if it involves reading. I have attended and hosted different events relevant to new subjects that involve outside world catastrophe's in job security, costs, and availability as a limited feature of free platforms to use without any response from the community. I wrote about it... but did they read it?

Underrepresented Population - Native America

1. Native Americans are at the highest poverty level rate of any demographic in the U.S. (AI Response - Native America in IT Field)

2.Roughly 1% of Native American/Alaskan Native students receive associate's degrees in computer science. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students are at 0.4%. (TribalBusinessNews.com) 

3. In 2021, the opioid related overdose mortality rate for Native Americans was 38.7 deaths out of 100,000 in the population nationwide. Higher than the national average. (www.aastec.net)

Unavailable Data

1. How many people attend pow-wows. This is not found online because it is not taken seriously to keep data reports or intake at healthy functions to curb reputational statistics. 

2. The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA) protects the rights of Native Americans to exercise their traditional religions by ensuring access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites. (42 U.S.C. 1996) - They have been working on preserving their culture, language, and customs in a modern setting with regenerational impacts of mainstream luxuries that include lifestyle changes, services, political agendas, and continue to strive for health in the community. This history is unavailable in written texts with the Native American scope due to oral translation and living memory customs that are no longer active or deceased. 

3. The 2020 Census revealed that approximately 9.7 million people registered as Native American or Alaskan Native alone or in combination with another race - which raised the indicator to 2.9% in total population. With 3.7 million identifying as AI/AN alone, making up 1.1% of the population; most (87%) of those identifying as AI/AN live outside of tribal statistical areas, with only 13% residing on reservations or trust lands. 

Based on federal regulations in blood quantum, the extra blended inclusions that raised population numbers may not be effective pro-activity but a barrier that is beginning to build an encasement around the people of who belongs. Further identity crises and trauma of acceptance and rights in services, ceremonies, and policies of concern. 

There is no legal verbiage or traditional resolution on blended people and its data.

Solutions

Www.tshatewahsana.org is an inter-tribal religious entity to solve the traditional preservation in peace. Allowing inter-tribal and blended ascendants to begin religious curriculum in lieu of the Great American Eclipse (2017 - 2024). It is an acceptance of a full identity that aims for all of America amongst the multi-blended people without religion, direction, purpose. Purpose is believed to be a type of happiness that mankind aspires to and when without can depress production within that citizen. 

www.NativeTRG.blogspot.com is an IT Group based in Northeast Wisconsin that is expanding into Wisconsin Technology Resource Group (WTRG) to include all tribal affairs in IT as a resource, mentorship, and membership knowledge hub overall with IT Topics.

Conclusion

There are other local solutions within each respective area and it is always a transition, not just for us, but for all people in the world. Technology is vastly improving and at a very fast speed. Those agendas are beginning to separate another learned lifestyle of work, paycheck, spend into a technical sense of type of work, salary, save with AI assisted tools, applications, and modern luxuries that we need to survive. Culture has to survive Luxury now and it is creating high-risk in youth with drug, alcohol, and other dependency drug issues with Murdered & Missing Indigenous campaigns. 

This is the world I represent in my Software Developer journey as a teen mother (he is now an adult, doing just fine by the way - I am very proud of him in so many subjects). I am preparing for grandchildren at some point and concerned about the demographics, statistics, and learning environments they will be stepping into. Can we keep doing this or do we run and hide in America for fear of being dragged down to our wits end?

I gotta keep trying. 

__Mischief