Primary Research Questionnaire (General question analysis)

This post will analyse data from general questions on questionnaire about software application (app) usage. As from previous post, we are looking on mainly unemployed male students. Small percentage of participance were female or employed students, however, all of them will be included in this study.

First question was if participants use software educational applications such as Brilliant. 41.7% (5 people) answered no, however, 58.3% (7 people) said yes. Next, we will look at possibility to be distracted while using applications. As you can see from the chart only one person was very unlikely to be distracted while using applications. Meaning, mostly people get distracted, perhaps with side apps, messages, calls and so on.

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Chart below shows how often and how many platforms are being used. Mostly applications are being used every day or every other weekend. Quantity of educational apps vary.

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Next two questions were about increased screentime, are they familiar with this term and do they know the effect of it. Shockingly, five people did not know what increased screentime mean, and three did not know the impact of it. You can see results in chart below. It could mean that people are not informed enough about consequences increased screentime has and can’t prevent it from happening.

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As mostly in this study participated people from Generation Z, results are alarming. Generation who was born in time when technologies were already invented and increasing in popularity at some point unavoidable, these results show that there must to be lack of warnings in increased usage of devices.

Primary Research Questionnaire (Demographic question analysis)

In this post I will analyse demographic questions such as age, gender, employment and education, from my questionnaire about software applications and its impact.

Firtsly, age. People who participated were in age from under 18 to 35. Majority of participiants we will look at are Generation Z, (Born between 1997 & 2012).

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In diagram below you can see that mainly man took part in questionnaire.

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On question about employment status answers vary, three people answered that they are students, which could be understood as unemployed. However, employed are only 4 people from 12. 

Last demographical question was about education, specifically, if participants are students. As you can see in chart below, majority are students and two preferred not to share this information.

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By analysing this section, people who participated are mainly male students in working age and most of them unemployed. 

Diagram 2

In this post, with help of diagram, I want to show how individual are different programming language syntax.

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On diagram you can see how to write "Hello, World!" in Python versus Java.

I mentioned in initial idea 2 post, differences in purpose of programming languages also it's dissimilar syntax. Python is straight forward, clear code, easy to read, however, Java language might be more difficult to understand. For example, in Python word (native function) "print" tells system to print specific message written in brackets followed, in Java you have to write println, ln stands for line, to print message on the screen. Small details but very important to write code without syntax errors.

Primary Research Questionnaire (Google forms)

I have been working on questionnaire to gather data from students about software applications. I used Google forms to create questions and analyse them afterwards. I will post my findings in next few posts.

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On the picture above you can see how my questionnaire looks like. On the top of the form are setting options where you can manage response presentation and so on. Google forms are easy to use, every question can be adjusted, moved, deleted. Also, you can choose style/type of answers (see picture below).

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As you can see, it is straight forward. Theme can be changed choosing photo from their library or by uploading your own from device. Google forms are free of charge. 

Diagram 1

 Have a look at the diagram related to my major project, created at diagrams.net. 

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Diagram shows advantages and disadvantages of using software educational applications. I made it to help reader visualise information described in my major project. Without reading trough all text redaer can understand impacts of apps on students by analysing this diagram. It is great tool to use in projects, presentations and so on. 

Shortly about diagrams.net. In this website you can create diagrams for free, choose diagram frame from multiple designs given on website or create your own, also, download diagram frame from other websites such as flaticon.com and adjust them in diagrams.net.

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Website is practical and easy to use. On the left side you can chose shapes.

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And on the right side are given options to adjust colours, size, insert text, adjust diagrem style.

Computer Ethics

Hi there!

Let’s talk about the Computer Ethics, about the rules you must follow.

Computer ethics most appropriate for my project are to not interfere with other people’s computer works. It’s very common to send computer viruses via link. As well it is important to remember to not spread false information.

In my opinion, all points of computer ethics are important. It is important to know and follow the rules to not bring harm with your knowledge and skills. 

World of the internet is changing so fast, it's unbelievable. It's hard for legislation to keep up with it, however, it is improving, and more safety plans has been put in place. We can clearly see that in the banking process, login process and so on. Most of the websites now offer extra security for users, many ways of verification. Bank will let you know as soon as something suspicious will happen to your account.

Introduction

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About my choice of university and my future plans... 

I chose DMU because I live in Leicester, and I like this city as it is multicultural, and I am feeling here welcomed. DMU is offering many different courses and I decided to study Computer science. In this course we will have optional third year modules, including: Advanced Web development, Privacy and data protection, Fuzzy logic, and inference systems. If i would be asked to choose now, I would pick Fuzzy logic and inference, as it's going well with data science.  On more reason why I chose DMU is because it's offers to international students’ year in college, which, basically, prepares you for the university. How amazing is that!!! I have opportunity to not only improve study skills but boost my confidence too. In DMU I will gain knowledge in Computer science as well as I will learn other very useful study skills such as problem-solving skills, self-discipline, note taking and so on. These skills I can use beyond my education. After finishing this course, I will take a break and travel, ideally, I plan to visit 6 countries in 6 months, in one go.  

References

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Welcome!

Welcome to My Space.

My name is Sandra. I'm originally from Latvia and I moved to the UK to study computer science. I'm interested in app development and recently I discovered data science very gripping. I haven't decided yet in what exactly I will dive in to, but I still have time for that. I'm here to explore and chose what suits me best.  

My hobbies are running, kickboxing, reading and traveling. Race I entered and I'm most proud of is Samworth Brothers Charity challenge, where teams from all around the UK was rising money for their chosen charity and at the end, we all had a chance to win more money, what would be added to our charity fund, by completing 10-hour long race. It was a huge project, very tough race, many organisations were involved and at the end, we all together raised over 2 million pounds.

Here in DMUIC I have an opportunity to prepare myself for studies in university, gain more skills and it gives me time to finalise my decision about studies.

I have a degree in Retail science and for a good 10 years I was into food industry, but computing was always on my mind. 

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Major project plan

 Hello all!

Planning, planning, planning....

It is important in any project to make a plan, have it to set up a deadlines, follow the progress.

For my major project I was writing down steps which I needed to complete as well as timing.

You can do it online, on the paper , you can choose any fancy way to do it but tehe idea is to keep track on your progress and to know exactly what you need to do.

As an example, see below my plan.

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I wrote it as it suits me, however, everyone has their own style. This word document was created by DMUIC and issued to us as a helping tool.

(Initial Idea 2) Programming & programming language

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Programming is giving machine an instructions, by writing a code, to describe how program should be carried out. ( BBC, no date) These day's anyone can learn programming from the scratch due to its increased popularity over the years. There are available guidebooks, courses, bloggers are creating YouTube channels with coding lessons, mobile applications, options how to learn are more than needed, but it takes time, practice and patients.

Programs are made up of statements. Statment is a line of code that preforms a specifik task, and different languages uses different statmanets. For example, in Java language statments ends with semicolons but in Python with newline and so on (Pedamkar, P. no date).

There are a lot of programming languages available and for someone less familiar with this field it can be a struggle to choose. However, it is useful to anticipate programming language popularity, see which language is widely supported for use to undertake future projects. For instance,  from 2008 to 2020-year period the usage-based statistical analysis shows that "languages that were most used in open-source projects on GitHub included JavaScript, HTML, Shell, CSS, Ruby, Python, makefile,C, Java, and C++ (in order of descending popularity). JavaScript,Python, Java, C++, C#, HTML, CSS, Swift, TypeScript and C werefound to be the most discussed languages on StackOverflow. " (Orlowska, et al. 2021) 

I, personally, chose Python as my first programming language, as it allows you to write a clear and easy to read code, in my opinion it is a good choice for beginners. But program language choice will depend on what you want to do. For example, C++ language is popular to use to develop games, applications, web browsers, it is used in operating systems and so on. (Gurpreet, no date). But Scratch language is made for young people, children, ages 8-16, to create games, digital stories, and animations ( Scratch, no date).

Many languages have multiple uses, for example, Python is more popular in artificial intelligence and machine learning, however, it is used as well in website development, data science and many more fields (Tashia, 2022).

References

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BBC ( no date) Introduction to programming. Available at:<https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zts8d2p/revision/1> (Accessed 12 October 2022).

Gurpreet, (No date) What is C++ used for? 8 real world uses of C++, Available at: https://www.codeavail.com/blog/what-is-c-plus-plus-used-for/ (Accessed: October 29, 2022). 

Orlowska, A. et al. (2021) Programming languages: A usage-based statistical analysis and visualization: Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3459955.3460614?casa_token=Qwn35O1jngAAAAAA%3AUo9XfNk_-7-2IxZOTe1UzJQMaBvqY_myLcq0EGAVV-HuzCnqwrkUbOloY889ZGni8-Og_ODyB1Mz (Accessed: November 1, 2022). 

Pedamkar, P. (no date) Java vs Python. Available at: <https://www.educba.com/java-vs-python/> (Accessed 12 October 2022).

Scratch (no date) About. Available at: https://scratch.mit.edu/about (Accessed: October 29, 2022). 

Tashia T. (2022) What is python: Get to know one of the most popular programming languages. Available at: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-python (Accessed: October 29, 2022).