Week 1

The first week started with some basic understanding of what we will learn during this course. We started with a trip to Cambridge to visit the Computer Centre and a museum (forgot the name). We had a few workshops; the VR and the basics of website development.

During the VR workshop, we learned about a 3D drawing in an app called OpenBrush. Some of us never used VR headsets before so we also learned the basics of navigating in Virtual Reality. In groups, we had to think about a utopian place, make some design and then draw it in VR. Our group designed an abandoned garden, that is slightly related to the book “Secret Garden”. Each group member added something to our garden. My favourite part, I added, was transparent cristal kittens. One of our group members added a story to them saying that all kittens were alive but they turned into a cristal and no one knows why.

Before we did any VR basics I had a bit aversion to it, I thought I won’t like it but everything turned into 180 degrees and I ended up buying the VR headset and doing more drawing during weekend. I used the same, OpenBrush app. I was still drawing using the basics tools but I think, I wanna use the advanced tools in the nearby future.

The other workshop was the basics of HTML and CSS. First, we learned about GitHub, we set up our students’ accounts on the website, then we started our first project and every large change, we were making, was saved on our GitHub via GitHub Desktop. When we started with HTML, the very first styling was made inside the HTML file. We learned about CSS later.

I did enjoy the HTML and CSS classes, I knew some of the basics before and these sessions were a “refresher” for what I learned a few years ago.