Hello everyone!! The semester is quickly coming to an end and I can not wrap my head around that I am almost done with my first year of college. Last week we worked heavily with understanding how to form a page on Wikipedia. On Tuesday, we had to go through a tutorial that taught use how to edit a page either with coding or visual effect. I think coding is very interesting, but how they explained it for a person that has not formed a code in their life I was still very confused. When we had class the following day, we had to choose an article that was already made my group chose the page about Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls. Here’s a link more about the amazing school! Prof Daly wanted us to chose a page that did not have a good amount of information. We added more information we found online to the page. It was easy to do because instead of coding we were able to use the visual effect that showed the same way someone else would see if they would search up the page. It was pretty cool to see that we contributed our knowledge through research to the page. Before we edited that page, I thought it was going to be a hard process, but it makes sense why everyone can so easily edit any page they want.
Photo from: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/25/business/oprah-winfrey-leadership-academy/
Hi! I also was surprised that Wikipedia was so easy to edit. We were surprised that we weren't allowed to upload preexisting pictures from the internet. While coding can be confusing when you first start, it gets easier the more you practice :) If you're interested I highly recommend taking ISTA 130; it's a fun class and is a class actually made for beginners, unlike the Computer Science classes here at UA. Great post, have a great day!
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