During our last class, we had our Final Project presentations. From Python to HTML, every group chose to work on different tools for their project. Through these differences, I wanted to analyse the process and result of the projects to understand what is common in technology-related projects.

First of all, one thing that all groups had in common was the constant help from search engines.  Since we only covered basic concepts from the tools available to us, every group used Google to gather information on the background, application, and debugging of their respective programs. In our group, we constantly used Google to search for courses on how to write and implement HTML code for our personal portfolio website. In an age where information is at our fingertips, the learning process is slowly separated from only being taught in colleges to being accessible online. This way, it is possible for anyone to learn anything new as long as they have the time and internet access needed to learn.

Apart from the code itself, most projects served a particular purpose to solve or explain a problem. Unlike the way that Computer Scientists are portrayed in mass media, they do not just sit and write code all day for a boring purpose. For example, Kate’s project expanded beyond learning how to write HTML to teaching others about the consequences of putting our information online. Therefore, coding is not just about code; instead, it is about the purpose for which the code is written for that improves or damages our society.

Through this analysis of the project presentations, I learned that technology-related projects share two things in common: using search engines to gather new information, and writing code to solve a particular problem.