Capstone - Final Reflection

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Final Capstone Reflection Journal Entry:

The Capstone is a unique and demanding challenge. In completing it, what did you learn about your
subject? Your skill set? Yourself?

- I learned how working on individual-project is difficult. I have some experiences of working on


coding project. My Individual projects were mostly small because I wanted to test out some new
features. I used to work on group-project because there are people who work with me, share
ideas with me, and manage the project with me. By working on this project, I realized there are
still a lot of things to learn, and I learned the importance of team members. Working on a pretty
big project took me long time to complete. From this I learned sufferance. Problem solving skills
are developed. I found an efficient way to search up what I want from google.

How is your project relevant to you, the school or the community-at-large?

- In the future, I want to work as a Software engineer and before entering the industry, I am
working on the project to get some tips and experiences.

How did you demonstrate the six Core Competencies throughout this project?

- Personal Awareness & Responsibility: Becoming Software engineer is my goal, So building a


website, and an mobile application could be a great opportunity to learn, and practice.
- Social Responsibility: Solving problems peacefully. Asking people, searching up on this internet.
- Personal & Cultural Identity: I know my strength and ability. I know what I can do and what I
can’t. In this project, I tried to use all skills I have to have a better result.
- Critical Thinking: I can analyze and make a defensive judgement of my learning.
- Creative Thinking: I don’t think this is a brand-new Idea, but I think it is a unique idea especially
in Canada.
- Communication: When I get stuck, I asked questions, and communicated with person who
helped me

What impact if any did your Capstone project have?

- One day, I watched a video about teachable machine and how easy to build my own AI, because
of this, I thought it would be really cool if I make a service (application or website).

Thinking about the whole process and your finished product, what are you most proud of?

- I am proud myself that I made an application what I wanted while having so much stress about
post-secondary and busy school life. This is not my best. If I had more time to work on this
project, I could bring up with a better result.
What was a difficulty you encountered and how did you solve the problem?

- The most struggle part of this project was classifying the images to train AI. When you train an
AI, you must use good images. For example, if you want to use a person’s photo, you must use
the photo that includes the full-face of the person. If the photo is side-face, or covered by hair,
they cannot be a good image. What was a difficulty you encountered and how did you solve the
problem? However, you need tons of photos to make a smart AI. To solve this problem, I had to
spend a lot of time to classify. So, selecting good images was the most difficult and important
part.

What is one thing about your finished project you wish you could change? Why?

- The design of the application. To be honest, I am bad at art including designing and I also do not
satisfy with this design. Last few weeks, I tried to learn app designing but I was running out of
time. So, if I had more time and opportunities, I would like to advance the design.

What advice would you give to a student who will be completing their Capstone Project next year?

- Start early, and work on as much as you can on free days, so you don’t run out of the time at the
end. Also record the progress even you change a little thing.

What source from your research helped you the most? (Or least?)

- I mainly searched up on YouTube to learn programming and knowledge I need to know to train
AI, app building, frame works. The most helpful sources were the videos by JoCoding. He
explains details about building applications and applying AI in it.

What is one thing about your approach to your project that you wish you could change? Why?

- Take time and research a lot before you start a project. Because I start this project without
knowing about AI and building a mobile application well. Because of this I had to send time to
learn these from the beginning. If I could change something I would like to have more time to
research and learn more about the feature l am going to use and plan well for the future.

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