CAS Blog: December 8, 2018 - December 14, 2018

I have been continuing my work on improving both my musicianship and the quality of my Dungeons and Dragons campaign that I had continued to plan and 'mastermind', so to speak, throughout this past week. What I've started doing in particular is planning the first session that my players will undertake as a part of the campaign. Previously, I had been designing the fictional world that my campaign will take place in, its origins, its conflicts, etc; really the 'big picture' stuff. Now, things are getting more specific. The first session of my campaign involves the player characters delivering a shipment to a settlement of brutal, imperialist dwarves (who are the central antagonists of my campaign), and it should be pretty interesting how things turn out, as there are a variety of courses of action the players can take upon arriving. Will they try to befriend these dwarves, only to betray them later? Or will they go all-out and start attacking immediately? It seems we'll have to find that out on the first day of the campaign. Regardless, I've been continually improving one of the primary skills as a Dungeon Master, planning, through this work.

(Learning Outcome #1, #3)

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CAS Project Blog #2

I have been working on completing slides for my internship supervisor, which will be used in a presentation given to this class of MBA candidates at Rice. The research involved in creating these slides has been really cool and interesting, and has taught me a lot more about cryptocurrency and blockchain economics. An example of one of these slides is below:

CAS Project Blog #4

Due to the water crisis that hit Houston yesterday, I was unable to find the Rice cryptocurrency course meeting on campus as most of the buildings had been closed, and as no prior announcement was sent to notify the interns. Despite this I spent some time walking around the Rice University campus and admiring the various sites there are to see. Additionally, upon arriving home and grabbing dinner I curled up and did some cryptocurrency/blockchain research myself to fill this gap, so fortunately all was not lost. (Learning Outcome: #1, #5)

CAS Blog: February 2020

It's a new year and a new decade! With that comes more CAS, of course. Over the past month, I've been working on a personal coding project (that fulfills the Activity requirement), for two primary reasons: I want enough practice programming in Java to ensure my success on the IB Computer Science exam, and additionally programming is something that I enjoy and that relaxes me, and will also ensure that I have adequate extra preparation for the computer science degree that I hope to attain. What I have been coding is a simple game that involves the player travelling around a map to slay monsters and earn gold. The game map is initialized with a 2D array of single characters, with certain points on the array made to represent different enemies and items. The goal is that this game will help me reinforce concepts of object-oriented programming for the reasons above; this will possibly always be a work in progress for me as I update the game in accordance with new strategies and...

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