Weekly Reports

9/1/20: Went over the syllabus and basics needed for the class.

9/8/20: Read over Chapter 1 and 2 with chapter 3 gone over on Thursday(9/10/20)

9/15/20: Read chapter 4 and went over it in class. Examples of GDHL.

9/17/20: Chapter 5 read. Chapter 6-7 covered with more examples of GDHL D and T flip-flop.

9/22/20: Chapter 8 covered and chapter 6-7 read over personally. Finite State Machine examples and look through GDHL.

10/1/20: Covered Chapter 9 and 10. Went over October Hackathon information and discussion about the labs once chapter lectures finished. Joined the group chat for labs. Group 8.

10/8/20: Start of lab 1. Covered chapter 11, 12, and 13.

10/15/20: Completed the rest of the pdf. Need to reread and go over certain examples again. Lab 1 part 2 went over with half of the class recorded.

10/20/20: Lab 2 went over. Started hex4counter project with Professor in class. Need to upload code to GitHub while also configuring Git in Vivado.

10/22/20: Lab 3 covered. Went over old chapters to review and made a list to clean up code within Vivado. Still need to push code to GitHub.

10/29/20: Lab 1-6 gone over in class and recorded. VDHL needs to be reviewed over while brainstorming the prototypes and ideas for the project the rest of class.

11/5/20: This week was the start of the project. Currently brainstorming ideas on a project that can be split between 8 people. Google docs made and are pushing ideas into. Plan to have more than 1 subgroup to split work. Current Ideas: Games, calculator, Physics based visualizer.

11/19/20(Pre Meeting): Absence of one week due to multiple preparation within a different medium. Group 8 was split into two subgroups with different projects to advance and compile at the end. Assigned to group 8b taking on the challenge of programming Tic Tac Toe and displaying the game using the visual adapter to a screen. Multiple resources have been linked and listed in a separate place where all subgroup members can be accessed. Logic has been fleshed out by Group Member Kevin Ward and is needed to be review over personally. Soft Deadline for labs approaching as it is next week, required to push all files of labs up to GitHub. Cleaned up other weeks of grammer. Plan to create another page to list all resources.

11/24/20-11/26/20: Subgroup of subgroup in following the task for a possible AI enemy in Tic Tac Toe. One possible source found in Java: https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/javagame_tictactoe_ai.html

(Contributions?): Doing research on AI for the Tic Tac Toe AI there was a good article on how to go about the logic; https://towardsdatascience.com/tic-tac-toe-creating-unbeatable-ai-with-minimax-algorithm-8af9e52c1e7d

12/1/20-12/10/20: Project work continued at a sporadic pace. Most work continued on weekends but personal contribution is mostly low due to other class works encroaching on deadlines. Kevin and Kristen were the ones mostly pushing ahead in the projects while I slightly assisted in code debugging.