Voices of MYTEK Lab

This course for the most part has been pretty fun. At some point it really did test my patience with the coding but I think that helped me become better. I think I liked the 2d game using flow lab the most. I think I do enjoy game design however the coding in mytekos was really challenging. I think the main problem was not understanding what the error was compared to other languages. Most of the other languages actually displayed the error but in order to fix errors, I had to do the whole thing over again which was sometimes infuriating. I think in the future I would look at game design as a real path as I love playing games and seeing me being able to react with the environment that I created myself was extremely satisfying. Flow Labs simple way of controlling the character through the circuits was really cool and intuitive. I also liked seeing the little pixel animations of the character walking as well. The 3d modelling wasn't how I expected it to be. I was expecting more like blender where it was molded by your own hands but doing it by code was terrible either. It was pretty unique. The entire class had a lot of new experiences that I genuinely enjoyed so from the bottom of my heart thank you for everything.

Compared to last year, I would say that this level was definitely more difficult and had a lot more topics I didn't fully understand. Although I wouldn't be interested in pursuing them as a career option (I'm going into mechanical engineering this fall) the network simulator and machine learning sections were probably some of the best to work with. While we unfortunately missed 3D modelling this year, that's ok as I already do that on the side as a hobby and will be doing much more of it when I go into college. The most difficult section was probably web sockets as most of the time I had no idea what was going on with the code. The line drawing algorithms, however, were much better in that regard and I was actually able to see what each part of the code was doing and understand it. Overall, I think the course was worth it for exposure purposes, although in order to get a proper understanding of many of the coding concepts I'd probably have to take a full course on that singular topic (which I will actually be doing with Python as part of my engineering program). This has been my last year with MYTEK Lab, so thank you for taking the time to teach us everything and I hope to be able to keep up communication with some of you in the future :)

Sam

I enjoyed most of these modules, but with all of my other school, it was difficult for me to stay caught up or put in all the effort I could have. Probably my favorite module was the Flowlab because it was similar to a game I have played before and it had a great blend of pixel art and game design. I also enjoyed the website design because I could code something semi-easily and in the end, you have a cool website. My least favorite module was the blocksVR because it was majorly time-consuming (at least for me because I like to make things perfect) and I was already cramming because of the Holidays. Another one of the modules I didn't enjoy as much, was the robotics module because I thought I did the right thing (even though I probably didn't), but it still didn't work. My opinion is that for the Capstone project, someone could pick their favorite module and make something using that style of game design, but then you might have to come up with challenges for each module for the Capstone project.
I had a lot of fun with this class! I appreciate the hard work that was put into these classes and I'm excited to be back for level 2!

Thank You,

Adalyn (Ady) Nickels

This was a fun course. My favorite applications were Web Dev and Flowlab. I became much more comfortable with Web Dev by the end of the second semester and was really enjoying it. Flowlab was really fun to use as well. I never understood just how much goes into a creating a game, so it was really fun to learn about that. Overall, I felt I learned a lot and it was exciting to learn about something I don't have any experience in.

A few projects i really enjoyed include flowlab because its so easy to make a incredible game super quick, Webdev is really cool as i have always wanted to be able to make a complex website and actually see it in the browser and be able to interact with elements. Pixel art is so popular in the Mytek lab community but it isn't really my thing. Blocks vr however is so fun because i can make my own scene and import my own models or take some from the gallery and view them in my headset without needing to install a apk for every test. Blocks cad somehow convinced me to install openscad and blender on my desktop. Things i hope to learn in the future include: c#, html, and more about unity oh and also reflection physics . Thank you for teaching me about all these great applications and how to use them.

I had to. I just had to. It was a legal requirement.

Take a little time to reflect on this course over the past year. Think about applications and modules you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy. Were there any topics that really pulled at you? If not, that’s ok. Create a new project in the notes application and type a few things about your reflections - things you liked or disliked about certain applications and the course in general and things you would like to learn more about in the future, if any.

Alright. I loved the course! My least favourite part... VR. My most favourite part was Vim and Code Editor! I have started a small business selling websites. I also didnt like (at all) flowlab. I wish you had summer courses.

I know I keep asking, but if there is any way I can just use the Mytek Lab tools and not the curriculum, I would be honored. I still have room to put my class in the fall schedule if I get approval by the 17th of June. Please let me know if you have any more questions. I am willing to pay royalties if needed.

Kaleb!

I've really enjoyed taking these classes and I like that a variety of subjects were covered. If I wasn't going to college this fall I would definitely be taking more classes.

I didn't dislike anything that we did, but I did struggle with some things more than others like the maze for example. I liked creating the different games best and enjoyed putting together the capstone project.

My only critique of the course itself was that Mr.MyTek would get to talking in the first part of the lesson and then by the end of the lesson would have to rush a little to get everything in. I don't think the talking is necessarily bad and the things discussed were usually very interesting, but it's just something I noticed happening consistently.

As always, thank you for everything.

I thoroughly relished the lessons throughout this year, as each topic presented was not only fascinating but also incredibly enjoyable. Among all the subjects covered, web socket programming stood out as my personal favorite. The entire curriculum was infused with a sense of fun and excitement, despite some lessons posing greater challenges than others. Nevertheless, by persevering and applying myself, I managed to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to overcome obstacles and successfully troubleshoot the code that had initially perplexed me. Overall, this year's lessons were a fulfilling and enriching experience.

I personally loved this introduction into coding. I found it enjoyable and the material was taught smoothly. The teacher made it easy to understand complex material and was super helpful when I messed up. I highly recommend the scores to my friends. I definitely struggled when working with three dimensional items through browsers but other than that I mostly understood everything.

It was fun making the RPG pixel art tiles, however we didn't end up doing much with it, I would have liked us to do more with it and not have it just sit in our assets.

The guessing game was one of the highlights of this class. I enjoyed it so much that even after that section was over, I went back to add more features and streamline it.

The various VR lessons were fun, occasionally I would have trouble adding in some of the more complicated assets, but mostly I didn't have any problems. My favorite was probably the solar system that I made.

The blockbench projects were also really fun. It took me a while to get used to the texturing, but after that it was pretty smooth.

The web design wasn't bad, but it just wasn't my thing. It wasn't very interesting when compared to the other lessons.

Another one of the highlights was the robotics lab, it was fun designing robots and making them interact with the world that they were placed in.

The 2D game design was probably my favorite part of this class. Like with the guessing game I went back and added more content after that section was over. I managed to add a working projectile attack but I got stuck on getting an enemy not to walk off a cliff.

While it wasn't as fun, the P5 game development was definitely fun. Making two things interact is always fun.

After looking over my projects and assignments this year I have a few that I really enjoyed. My favorite one so far is working with Linux systems along with VIM, I feel like I understand it a lot more. My second topic that I enjoyed a lot was creating cool chatbots and understanding machine learning concepts. Finally, one of the most useful things that I have learned and found fun was working with APIs and online systems to connect multiple people even though it was confusing at times. Overall it was a great year and I learned so much more than I ever have before, thanks!

I enjoyed this class, and I don't really have any critiques! For me, the best part was the open-ended assignments. I loved when you would explain the basics in class and give us the tools to build something for the assignment, instead of just doing the whole assignment in class, or copy-pasting it from the lesson notes. That way you have to figure out how to do some things on your own. So, if I had any complaints, it would be that only some of the assignments were open-ended. However, I understand that it's probably impossible to make them all that way, so I don't consider that a complaint.

Thank you so much for this class, I have enjoyed my stay.

Bye!

-Leah P

i liked how i could interact with class and make funny things with coding blocks and all the other programs (my favorite was blockbench) i would definitely come back next year if im allowed. the courses were kind of easy due to the logic blocks and im good at logic so i hope next year i get something a bit more challenging but it was really fun (hopefully not that hard)! i'll see yall later. -your favorite hooligan Iain

P.S. add minecraft server

I learned a lot of cool stuff this year on MYTEK, one of my favorite Lessons was learning about Flowlab and making fire games using it. Something that I really like about these classes is that it's not just making the cool projects, it's actually learning what to do and understanding how to make them, Another thing I think is great about learning on mytek is the student help system and the live help class if anything is confusing or not working. I wasn't a HuGe fan of BlocksVR, but it was still fun to try it and make some cool things with it.

I think that's all my feedback I have so thank you for a lovely fun year of MYTEK classes /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\

I enjoyed pretty much all the lessons in this and last semester.

The week i think i struggled the most with was semester 2 week 9 when I was figuring out how async works and had to rewrite a part of the code due to how my back end code was.

Looking at Computer Science 2, I will have more enjoyable lessons in the future.

Some suggestions for MrCodeEditor:
Auto string, array, tag completion (when you type '[' add ']' in front.)
Choice between spaces and tabs.
HTML and js auto completion.
Optional seperate window for preview (button that spawns window with preview and makes editor take full page, run refreshes window.)
Make logs element adjustable.
Hover text on buttons.
PHP sandbox.

I don't know where i found it but you could style and edit your win 10 sim to make it a usable way of accessing myteklab.

I am excited for if you ever do mail 46068 so we can submit improvements.

I really enjoyed the pixel art sections (I am an art geek) but my favourite was the Blockbench bookshelf project we did, the only assignment i really struggled with was the robot assignment I could never figure out how to get it to stop. But the entire year was so much fun and was definitely my favourite subject in school (along with math). The Bom-omb assignment definitely was harder because I kept accidentally pressing buttons and the entire thing would get deleted, so I had to redo that one several times. Making the video game was really fun and learning about the different inputs was really interesting. I cant wait to come back next year!

I found that at the beginning of the year, I did not enjoy using Linux for coding, but as the year went on, I found myself enjoying it more and more. I also enjoyed simulating networking. I found it interesting to learn how such a necessity in modern life works on a base level. I don't have many things that I did not enjoy about the applications or the course other than maybe how debugging isn't really covered. Something I would like to learn more about is 2D side-scrolling game design and 3D game design.

Throughout this school year, I have learned many applications that have challenged my learning ability and motivated me to strive for more. Since Lab 1, I have continuously worked to improve my knowledge as I go through this tech journey. My current and past coding sparks change each time I learn something new. I enjoyed working through each project using the help of Mr. S! This school year has some new and familiar projects I’ve done. Here’s my opinion:

Let’s start with Linux. My first thought was, “This is cool but difficult!”. I enjoyed Linux despite all the commands I would have to memorize. Now I am in the perspective of showcasing “hidden information that could be accessed on a webpage.” Which I have mentioned before! It’s super cool transferring from one site to another. Working with Linux takes time, so I would spend hours in Vim to understand what is happening! Overall, I do like Linux, but it can be confusing.

Robotics: I have mixed feelings about this application. The syntax is very different from the languages we learned. There were difficulties getting projects to work because of the confusing structure. I did enjoy the turtle graphics, but the maze and obstacle course were way more challenging. Overall, I suggest more beginner basics, even for intermediate students. Just to get a broad understanding.

3D modeling: This application wasn’t too hard. I had quite a lot of fun making the models. I would love to learn more!

Programming: There were lots of programming this year, and I adore it! These projects were half challenging and fun. Working with PHP was confusing but fascinating. I had fun making games and working with VR, which is super cool. Overall, programming this year was crucial and engaging!

Game development: One word, crazy! Everything from Vim, flow Lab to flying cars! Haha, seriously, this game dev was a lot. I challenged myself and created two awesome games! I’ll say that the three js game took the most brain power, but I did enjoy it. Same for Flowlab. Overall, this application gives me mixed feelings.

Web Design: Design work this year was new and kind of hard. I had trouble with Bootstrap; this is new to me, so I would have to study that. Getting API badges was simple, but I couldn’t finish the DateTime. The API art gallery was my favorite! This brought me back to drawing, and overall was fun! Web design this year is cool. I would have liked to work more with web design, but what I’ve come up with is pretty cool so far!

Graphic Design: I don’t have much to say about this application other than it is simple and fun!

Thank you so much, Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Jacky for having me as a student. I have grown to indulge myself more in technology each day. I see the potential you both have said to me and I WILL keep on shining :) After all, Light is the meaning of my name and I hold that dear to my heart. I really appreciate everything you both have done for me and I will keep in touch every chance I get. This school year challenged me and gave me great determination to keep learning more! Again, thank you and I'll see you next time!

Week Twenty Mytek Level Two Reflections

Jaden Elliott

Looking back through this past year there has definitely been a lot of assignments that we've done. I liked a lot of them but some not so much(there were very few of these though). Semester one was a little tough at the beginning because I had just started and we began with Linux and web design, which at the time, I had never done before. I was a little bit stressed because of that for a while, however, Mr. Mytek, is a really good teacher and I was able to pick up on it pretty quickly(I had a lot of fun learning and using them). After that we went into JavaScript and JavaScript Api's, we coded in our website profile pages(this was really exciting to me for some reason) and made a little idle clicker game(it broke so many times...). Then we went into Pixel art and designed a 2D cityscape(it was surprising to me to see how much work is really put into building one background, I always assumed that it was much easier). It was very time consuming, frustrating, and fun(I was very determined to finish it). Finally, we finished up the first semester by creating two 2D games in code editor. A simple plinko game(which I thought was pretty cool because I believe right after this I got to attend a live price is right game show), and a really cool pinball machine game(which was really fun to make and learn how to build(the hardest part was making sure the ball didn't get stuck anywhere)). Semester two began without a hitch, we started with Vr development, Vr physics, and navigation meshes (which make walls and other objects solid, as well as, letting objects fall) (those were some really fun weeks) . Next we went into 3D models/ Gltf files and php files (my goodness I remember being so stressed out trying to figure those out). Then we went into creating 3D models in OpenSCAB for 3D printing,(I learned a lot during those two weeks, but I also struggled, positioning, and building the shapes for the models was probably the hardest for me) making a platform 2D game using our Pixel background in Flow lab, and robotics using a robotics sim. In the end we finished the semester off with one final game in three.js where we built a flappy bird type game but, in 3D, with a plane, and a final project. (It was amazing). Overall I really enjoyed all the programs, (experimenting with all of them) the course, the classes, the people, and what I learned. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Mytek. :)

Dear, Mr. and Mrs. Mytek,

This first year of coding and technology was amazing for me! My favorite lessons were the ones in which we created games or applications, like the bouncing ball game or the calculator, and I also enjoyed learning the basics and history of technology in the very first couple of lessons. I also enjoyed the projects in Blockbench and BlocksVR, like the Bomb-Omb project and most of the ones in VR. I also liked the couple of robotics lessons, although I was somewhat disappointed that we didn't work on many robotic projects, and hope there will be more in the next classes. I think my least favorite project was the tilemap project at the beginning (not because i didn't like it but because i enjoyed other things more). Again, thanks to you guys for making my introduction to the world of technology an amazing one.

Sincerely, TheGreatNate808 (Nathan)

Things I enjoyed about this course:

I like how this course was, unlike other courses I've done in the past, able to alter my mindset when programming.

I enjoyed the various projects that got my mind thinking, and there was nothing better than the satisfaction of solving a programming-related problem.

It was also convenient to be able to contact My. MyTek when I had a question relating to a recent project.

Things I disliked about this course:

I do wish that the course did have more difficulty to it during the programming subject, but I do understand level 1 of this course was made for people who don't have any experience in programming.

I do think that during the transition tiles subject, the idea of reverse-transition tiles wasn't mentioned. This made me unable to truly complete the project like I wanted (I could be wrong, so just tell me if I am).

I wished there were more projects about the logical programming side of this course, but that is just a personal preference of mine. I think for the average person taking this course, it's a good introduction to technology in general.

Reflections

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This is my first year of doing mytek. this year i would like to reflect on the good and bad of level 1.

The things I really loved about this course are probably the P5 programming and Robotics Simulator. These thing i will most definitely go back and create outrageous games on. Another thing i will continue to use is flowlab, finishing up goblin ninja.

On the other side of the scales are dislikes. The problem is it is hard for me to find things i did not like. I believe that the only thing i can say is that the tilemap editor is the thing i used the least, if only because i didn't know what to make in it.

I do hope that you can make something of this, or at least enjoy reading this.

Have a great summer!

Sincerely,

Weston.

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This is my second year with MyTek and as usual, it was a lot of fun and I learned so much! There were some things loved more than others, my favorite project I did this year was the airplane game. It looked like a legit game that I used to play when I was younger so there was a lot of nostalgia attached to it. Overall it showed me how to make a game in general and my sisters and I had a lot of fun playing it. Another one I loved was the obstacle course with the robot. I remember using the robotic simulator last year and loving it, it was nice bringing it back and learning more about its other functions. I enjoyed making the obstacle course and placing basketballs in random places. It was probably the most fun project. There were other projects that I despised because they gave me the most problems, such as the game using the tilemap and the maze. When it comes to the maze project, even though was by far the most difficult, I was really happy with the outcome when I finished it. Unfortunately, it did not save and I lost all my work, which is why it is my least favorite. Other than that, all the other projects were really fun, and I am happy I stayed another year because I learned (again) a lot. Thank you MyTek family!!!

This has been an amazing year. I've really started to enjoy the Linux aspects. My favorite parts of the year have been the Machine Learning module and when we went into how math can be related to and used in game developement and in programming in general. I also quite enjoyed working with databases & SQL order forms in the first semester. I will admit I thought I was going to enjoy the week 20 lesson on creating & maintaining a server more than I did. Overall, thank you for an amazing year and I'm looking forward to the next one.

This year I learned a lot about computer programming thanks to MyTekLab. Some of my favorite applications that we used were the MyTekServer/Linux and command line activities, server-side programming like PHP, and pretty much all web design stuff. For example, the idle game and using data from an API were some of my favorite projects this year. I didn't really like the game or robotics elements of the course. The pixel art wasn't my favorite either, none of them were bad, just not my favorites. If I decide to do something with computers as a job someday, it will probably be doing something on a server or something involving web design. That's why I would like to learn more about it in the future.

I was in level 3 this year and i loved it because it really challenged me to understand the code and what we were working on. There were so many interesting topics, but my favorite was the socket game. It was really cool to learn how to send and recieve data, and it was super fun to work on (and play. :P) I also loved making the pixel art gallery, and the chat app. MrMYTEK and MrsMYTEK, I can't imagine how much patience it takes to put up with us in level 3 XD Thanks for always making cool and interesting classes. You're amazing!

Hello Mr. Mytek, I really loved the year and all the different things we learned ranging from pixel art to ssh to 3D stuff. It was all undoubtedly fun and difficult at times. I particularly liked the 3D modeling because it taught me a bunch of stuff I can use in the future when I get a 3D printer (When I get enough money XD). This was most likely my last year in this class and it all was a blast! Hopefully we can keep in touch over the years, or potentially meet up because I have a grandma in Florida. You were a great teacher I hope you keep it up. :)

I really enjoyed the game design and coding! Something else I really liked was blockbench and making different items there like the bookshelf and the Bombomb. I will say that sometimes with my Mac it was hard to copy and paste certain links but i could usually figure it out! Thank you so much for your great teaching this year and I hope you have a great summer!

This year I went from knowing nothing about coding to knowing somewhat how to use Vim, HTML, Javascript, P5, A-Frame, Python (to code a simulated robot), Pixel art, GLTF models, Bootstrap, OpenSCAD, PHP, Three.js, and Flowlab. Although I'm not the most efficient or the fastest coder and some of my assignments were turned in late (especially in the second semester), my new knowledge and understanding of coding now will help me pursue the career paths I'm interested in. Not only will it help me pursue them but it has also helped me discover what parts of coding I enjoy and what parts I... enjoy less. At the beginning of the year we started working with Vim, which was confusing at first. I definitely avoided it for the rest of the year until now. Its grown on me a bit and now that we've worked through the Three.js plane game using Vim, I definitely like it more. Then we started working in the Code Editor application, which was much easier to understand for me. We learned some simple commands like how to display text and stuff, and then we worked on implementing Bootstrap and other interactive web things. I really enjoyed making Snails! and Snails pt. 2! as well as my profile page. We worked a little with API's but I don't remember much about them, other than being very unsure of how they worked. We then worked plenty with JavaScript which was really fun. I made an idle game where you click an image of Garfield to "extract Garf". Then we worked on some pixel backgrounds that we didn't use until a few weeks later when we started working on our Flowlabs 2D game. We worked on some P5 projects like Plinko and Pinball, and we worked on plenty of A-Frame and made GLTF models, a maze, and basically volley ball. We also did like 2 or 3 things with PHP, like making a login system. We did some Python coding to make a robot solve a maze and go through an obstacle course, and we worked on OpenSCAD models, like Chess pieces, and pencil holders. We also made a super awesome 2D game (mentioned earlier) which was probably my favorite project this year. I made a 2D game that I called Gilbert Gamer, which was basically just a Mario rip off. We used our tile maps and sky backgrounds for that. I ended up after turning in the project, making a second level, and making another game with features that were better implemented like wall jumping and sliding on slopes. Then the last thing we worked on this year, aside from this project, was a Three.js flappy bird type game. We used Vim, and JavaScript, and 3D models, and all that stuff so overall it was pretty tough but it turned out well. I'm glad I took this course, the only thing I would do different if I did it again would be taking more time to fully flesh out all the projects that I had creative opportunities with, rather than rushing to get them done because they were due the day I started them. In the future I want to learn how to break into web pages and hack stuff and then how to prevent that from happening, because I want to go into Cyber Security or something similar for work.

Level 2 Reflections

I really enjoyed doing the MYTEK LAB level 2 class. Some of my favorite topics were web development and how to use bootstrap for that. I also like game design, while this can be tricky it has satisfying results in the end. I would like to learn more about making and styling websites in the future. This class was awesome! Thank you for teaching it Mr. MYTEK. I can't for level 3 or whatever it's called now!

When I was doing my capstone project, I went to the old assignments and started to remember what I experienced in those assignments. I remember trying to make them perfect and putting in lots of effort because I wanted them to be perfect, which made it hard. And I had this during the first semester T-T. But during that semester, I realized that I didn't need to make them perfect, like at least a good amount of effort and a good look at it. I don't think I didn't like any of the projects, I'm fine in all of the assignments. I like Web Dev, Blockbench, BlocksCAD, Robotics, and others. But I don't know which one specifically. I don't know what will happen next, except knowing when I'm about to sleep.

Some of the modules I enjoyed were robotics, VR, and the pinball game. Interestingly, last year robotics was the module I hated the most but this year robotics was my favorite. Modules I didn't enjoy were chess pieces, glTF Model, and at the start I hated Vim. At the start of the second semester, I didn't understand Vim very well and every time there was a project that we used Vim I always got stressed. But one day Vim just clicked and I managed to understand the basics. I still don't enjoy Vim but I don't hate it anymore. One thing I want to learn is to create a game similar to Three.js Game but understand every feature. I know we only had 3 weeks on that project and if the teacher explained every single thing then it would have been a 10-week project.

I enjoyed a lot of the stuff I've learned here. The pixel art, flow lab, tiles, web design, etc. I had struggles with code a couple of times but I've managed to bounce back and recover from my mistakes after going through my code again and again. I loved the pixel art tiles, they were so fun to do and so interesting to see what people made in the gallery! This course was really fun and I want to enroll again next year. I'd love to learn more about coding since it could also help me in the near future! Thank you so much for teaching me this year, it was a really fun course.

I really enjoyed this class. I didn't hate any of the applications used and I enjoyed a lot of them. I loved Blockbench and creating all the models. I liked we could also animate the models in Blockbench! The only thing that caused me frustration was certain projects where we had to solve or create an adjustment to the application on our own that was not straightforward to me. I figured it out eventually and problem-solving skills are great in the long run, but the short-term frustrations were annoying.

My Reflections of 2022-2023

I enjoyed this course alot and I am returning in the fall for more. I quite enjoyed blockscad, blockbench and beep box as well as pixel art but i did not care for blocksvr or tile mapping. I still prefer text to blocks and blender to blockscad. But my understanding is that those tools are better for certin people and certin projects. I would love to see myteklab continue on for years if not decades to come.

As a homeschooler this is one of the best ways I will be able to get middle and highschool credit in a fun way. Many of the sudents in the Tuesday 1:00 clock class will have there own memories of this past year, maybe we never forget the soggyoreo badge or kayden auto-answering questions and mesurments in the blockscad module. And i am certin that we all will have our own memories of the this year. Some of mine were: Spaming imagine dragon lyrics in zoom chat, the ohio ball animation in blocksvr and many other funny moments of this course and with that I say bye untill next year.

Some things I really enjoyed this year:
Learning how to create a 3d model on the computer, and web desgin! I loved experimenting with colors, what fonts go well, and also just to see my creations slowly take shape. That waas really cool.

I wasn't too fond of the robot design, but it was very helpful to learn. It too a bit to learn, but once I did, it was pretty fun!

Your class was very fun, and I am very glad I took this class! Have a wonderful summer!!

Hi, I loved the modules and projects I did this year. I have never really done a computer class before and this was all new to me, but I really enjoyed coding, programming, making pixel art and everything. The thing that pulled me the most I think was writing codes to create websites and all the codes that does so much like for example, everything has to be perfect or if a hair off it won't work. But overall the things I did this year I really enjoyed!

I really enjoyed my time at MyTek this year. My favorite part was doing web design, and I would like to learn more about it in the future. One module I didn't enjoy working with was the pixel art RPG tileset because it wasn't much of a project and it didn't really go anywhere. Still, most of the applications and modules I loved learning and working with. I also loved being in class and having you as my teacher! (That is probably the best part of this course)

I'm hoping to take the Level 2 course next year!

This year was interesting and fun. I really enjoyed the game design it was a little hilarious with everyone on the same game. The mytekserver was a little challenging to remember the functions but after the first week, it got a lot easier. But if you don't find something a little challenging you're not learning. Overall this semester was fun and interesting. I'm actually going to be taking some college classes this summer which should be fun. I hope you guys have a fun summer too!

First I wanted to say thank you for a wonderful year (before i get on with all the blah blah). I really enjoyed the game design in our most recent projects like week 17 and 18. When i was working on my website for my capstone i realized that i love web design. Vim Has never been that much of a bother to me I actually quite like it and have fun with it even tho other students say they hate it (guess that means I'm the odd one out). The FlowLab assignment i enjoyed very much (definitely wish we did more with that), but so far i would say week 17 and 18 (19 too) is my favorite module :D

Throughout this year I have learned a great amount of information and a lot of fun! I really loved pixel art, WebDev, Robotics Simulator, and FlowLab (even thought it was for one week). At first I thought WebDev was a little boring but after learning more about HTML, P5, and CSS I am more inclined to create WebDev projects. I am eager to learn more about web design in the future! I also thought creating models with Blockbench was cool, especially the assignment where we had to create an animated Bob-omb model. However, I sadly didn't enjoy BlocksVR as much as I thought I would. I think compared to the other applications and the potential to create so many projects with them, I didn't feel a pull to BlocksVR as much. Although, I had the same problem with WebDev in the beginning and learning more about BlocksVR could solve this. Despite this, I overall had an amazing time in this class! I will most likely be re-enrolling unless any complications come up. Thank you!

This year I really liked Web Design, and I really liked getting a feel for it. I feel like I now want to get more deeply into it and start making more advanced web pages! I feel like blockbench was my worst, I had so much frustration with it because there were so many things you had to change just to get a simple ball or something, and all of the sorting through things just to find a leg, I feel like that's not for me. I really like this year, however. I really liked how ever 2-3 weeks we would be introduced to something new to get a feel and introduction for. If there was one thing I would change, it would be to make the course longer, because I enjoy every moment I spend in class! Thank you so much for having me MrMyTek and I hope to see you next year in level 2! :)

The applications I liked from best to worst:

1.Flowlab. . . . . . . . .It was just so much fun to make and play the games!

2.Pixel art. . . . . . . . .You can make pretty much anything that's pixelly.

3.Blockbench. . . . . . . . .It's a nice mix of challenge, fun, and simplicity.

4.Web Dev/BlocksVR. . . . . . . . .You can make many thing from guessing to drawing games/It's a fun challenge to make things like log cabins.

5.Robotic simulator. . . . . . . . .It's a little tricky to make things go in the order you want, but the results can be worth it.

6.Paint. . . . . . . . .It's pretty much a basic drawing application.

Topics I liked:

1.Coding/Programming. . . . . . . . .It's the main reason I started Myteklab. It's also a lot of fun because It's a mix of some other things I like: Math, logic, etc.

2.Robotics. . . . . . . . .It's fun to not only program robots, but also to make them, and figure out why some things work but others don't.

3.3D simulations. . . . . . . . .It's sometimes a lot like things like: Minecraft, Lego, etc.

I would like to have a class on game making using Flowlab and Game Programming.

In general, I had quite a bit of fun. Thankfully I'll be here next August.

Stuart Otten

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this class. But if I had to pick a favorite section it would probably be the things we did with programming, I didn't really like the VR stuff, although I liked the 3D modeling. I wish we had done more robotics simulations or at least gone more in-depth but I enjoyed the ones we did. They were all still fun though and I enjoyed them.

This year I enjoyed using MytekServer and experimenting with the different commands and executions. A few things I did not enjoy this semester were the VR maze projects and labs, as they were extremely buggy and knit-picky. The past school year has been such a learning experience and my knowledge has grown in so many different areas.

I definitely learned a bunch especially this year. The thing I struggled with the most was the robotics and in the beginning it was vim but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Vim was hard because I feel like the lessons are either rushed or concept isn't fully explained and as for robotics its a very tricky unit and sometimes having the extra help from you or from the lessons or even putting hints into the lesson notes would help. Anyways thank you for the past two years of computer science experience. I'm sure it'll come in handy one day especially for games.

End of year reflection

This is my first year with mytek lab except for a summer program. I enjoyed this class through all the difficult assignments and the easy ones. I did not know much in the ways of coding, web design, game design, 3-D modeling, or animation. I know I was not the most active student in the live classes, but I truly did learn and enjoy this class and all of the assignments. Can’t wait for next semester.

by: Onyx .T

Most everything was enjoyable my least favorite thing was the pixel art but that may just be that i dont like it. the three_js game was a lot of fun to make. the robotics was also fun. modeling for 3d printing was a blast. the vr maze wasnt my favorite but it wasnt bad. A Frame was quite fun. most everything was fun and intresting i never felt bored during the lectures as they were engaging and fast paced. i wish the help class would be a bit later in the week but thats about it.

I like doing Mytek, but it's really hard though. I liked Flowlab, so I would like to do that again. Robotics is fun to make the robot design, but programming the robot is hard. Design is easier for me, but there are some parts I didn't like. all the applications had ups and downs for me, and I do get frustrated and need a little help.

I had a lot of fun this year working on all sorts of projects. Over all I had a bunch of fun with all of the projects, the only things that I didn't enjoy were probable more of the design side of things. But that was not because of the material but because I am not the greatest with that stuff, I like more making the game engine and features. I enjoyed the class very much and I am excited for next year. Thank you so much for teaching me and helping me whenever I did something wrong. I hope you have a great time and see you soon!

For some reason Notes wouldn't save so I'm just putting the reflections in the comments: I really liked our Code Editor projects and the Robotics Simulator. I feel like I have a basic understanding of Vim and it's not as scary as it used to be 😁. I liked the games as well (Three.js and Flowlab) and enjoyed creating the maze in MrCodeEditor.

I had so much fun with this year. My favorite thing was probably making that super simple triangle. I liked it because of how it showed what programming the first computers must have been like. My least favorite thing had to be the maze simply because of how I felt afterwards (motion sickness). I would have liked to have learned the tools to create new games, not just how to create specific projects. Above all, thank you for allowing me to use Mytek and create all that I did.

I really enjoyed projects where I could create stuff like pixel art or the robotics lab. I've had a rough school load this year so I was not able to maximize some of my projects, especially my portfolio. My only dislike related to an application is the precarious method of saving Webdev projects, which caused, coupled with my own incompetence, the full deletion of my capstone home page.

Thank you for this class, I appreciate your teaching style.

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things i liked:

pixel art assignments (tiling was a little bit confusing but overall pixel art was a fun application to work with.)

the later in the class web dev assignments like the calculator, drawing app, and ball game

blockbench projects and Flowlab

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Things i didn't like as much:
the early web design assignments and blocksvr work

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Miscellaneous thoughts on the class:
99.99% of the lessons were easy to follow and understand (a rarity in programs like this and school in general in my experience, so good job!).

The Calculator/drawing app assignments made web design a lot easier to figure out than the first web design assignments.

I would have liked to do more flowlab related assignments. The flowlab assignment was fun. I would have also been interested to learn more about beepbox.

some sort of database about what each code block in web dev does would have been very helpful.

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I liked MyTekLab level one.

There's some chance I might not be back for level 2, but that's due to shifts in my schedule. Not anything wrong with the class.

I enjoyed the block bench and Web Design during this school year. I've always been interested in how web design works, so to be able to make one in class was a lot of fun. It was also not as bad as I thought once you showed us the steps. I also liked the pixel art and the ability to create projects and use at the application with ease and create 3D models. Something that I did struggle with was the capstone project and sometimes importing the links was a bit hard. I can't say that coding is easy, but I think with practice, I'll be able to get it. In the future, I would like to learn more about animation and build more characters and develop a story maybe based on that.

This has been a great academic school year at MYTEK! I really enjoyed the bulk of our lessons. A few of the things that stuck out to me were Blockbench, working in BlockVR, and Flowlab (even though it was one short lesson). I really enjoyed these applications and working within them! My only feedback for this course is the communication between MYTEK and the Bridgeway system (because I'm a Bridgeway student). I had a friend with me in this class this year and we both talked about how there is a lot of confusion about due dates, course dates, and when we are on break. I really wish the integration from Bridgeway to MYTEK was a lot smoother. Aside from that I really enjoy the structure of this course and the workload every week!

Hello, this is my reflection on this class and what I loved most!

I have really enjoyed working with Blockbench and Flowlab as those were really easy and fun to work with and you could make some really fun things in them. In Blockbench you can animate all the things you make, in Flowlab you can easily make a really cool game, and I love pixel art! Of course, Webdev! I wouldn't mind learning more about game development, especially VR game dev.

Overall I felt I learned a lot, but not as much as I could since we did a lot of copy-pasting

I enjoyed all the units, I feel they were perfect a mount of challenging vs easy

I do wish we had made a more complex game, since that always fun, and worked more in server/client side stuff like we did at beginning of year.

I feel networking unit should have been shorted and the server stuff with the form be longer

I think my favorite applications have to include Mr. Code Editor and the Network Simulator. These were so fun to work with throughout the course of the class, and I'd definitely come back to them in the future.

As for my least favorite applications, I think the SQL designer was my least favorite. It was - in my personal experience - too hard to get accustomed to, and I feel glad we didn't use it much throughout this year.

This Year i learned a tone of interesting and fun stuff.

we started in APIs and did some pixel art gallery stuff with that

next we went to data science, command line and charts

we then moved to machine learning, models, tensors, qna, and turning test

next we did sockets and built all types of fun stuff

finally we finished with game design which was really fun

I really enjoyed the VR cabin a lot, working with blocks VR was fun. I also enjoyed using block bench, the 3 projects on block bench were fun for me. I wasn't really a fan of any of the web dev projects besides the calculator and the drawing board thing. The project that pulled at me the most was probably the game design in flow lab because I take a lot of game design classes (with different applications other than flow lab, ex. stencyl, unity, etc.) I didn't like the web dev projects because they were very bland looking and even with all the customization it was still bland and it felt very not fun. I would like to learn about programming more, because I did not do good with almost any of the programming, although I did learn a lot about it.

Things I did enjoy over the year:

Developing the Blockbench models, building with them in Blocks VR.

DEFINITELY FLOWLAB

The P5 Gaming wasn't my number one favorite, but I liked it, considering that I solved the answer in like 10 seconds.

Robotics was pretty nice

Things I didn't particularly enjoy over the year:

Probably 3D modeling and Web Development.

I didn't really hate them, but I didn't exactly enjoy them either.

I enjoyed using Vim, Robotic Simulator, and Flowlab again. I didn't like the maze since there were so many lines of code it was so easy to forget where everything went. All of the VR projects and the Robotic Simulator obstacle course I found irritating. I overall had fun during the course once I knew what I was doing, my main issue being that it takes a very long time for me to finish a project.

Reflections

I enjoyed this year of MyTek very much. One of the projects that I spent the most time on was the 3d maze assignment. I spent a very long time working on it and it came out very well. Some of my favorite projects that we made this year was the JS idle game, the robotics projects, flowlab, and the three.js plane game. The only project I didn't really care for was making the chess pieces in OpenSCAD. But other than that, I really enjoyed everything we worked on this year.

For the most part, the course was pretty enjoyable. It was interesting to learn about all these things that I'd heard of, but never actually used before. At times it was frustrating, I found JavaScript in particular to be very difficult to work with, while HTML was fairly easy and didn't take long to get used to. I always watched back the lesson recordings as I wold never be able to keep up with the live ones, and that worked pretty well for me. Some topics I had to follow every step in the video in to make sure I was doing it right, such as a lot of the Vim stuff at first. However, other ones I found a lot easier. My personal favourite topic was the 3D design with OpenSCAD, having done some 3D design in the past as a hobby it was pretty easy to get into. I actually watched the first video the whole way through without following any of the steps just to challenge myself to recreate the model from scratch using the knowledge I had on the application. It also really helped that I was seeing code do things physically, which made it easier to understand the inner workings of things like for loops. Overall it was a good year of new topics learned and while there were many that I found intimidating, it also helped me to have a better understanding of others. I am now fairly comfortable with Vim, for example, having used it for the capstone project instead of the code editor. While there could be little improvements on some things, I'd say it was well worth my time and effort for the most part.

Reflections - Lab 2

Linux commands and vim:

I Absolutely loved it, and it's actually helped me navigate things like powershell and my raspberry pi. 10/10

A-frame:

It was...okay, I liked it, but its not what i was particularly looking for, for the areas i want to specialise in, being cybersecurity. Maybe do a class/lesson on cybersecurity and how hackers do their attacks/how to prevent it? 5/10, just wasn't my cup of tea.

Python and Robotics:

liiitle bit confusing, but i liked it, and loved mucking about with the robot. 10/10

Php and serverside:

YEEESSSSSSS!!! Do more like these. 11/10. Suggestion: Make a fake website on mytekserver that is intentionally vulnerable, and the students have to try and hack it?

Flowlab:

Fun little thing for people who want to go into game dev. it was alright, again not my cup of tea. 6/10

ThreeJS:

Really really REALLY confusing, but satisfying to see the end result. 7/10

Overall i'd give lab 2 a 7.5/10. I'd really like to see more lessons in the coming labs that aren't vr and game related, perhaps more serverside php, Pentesting, internet safety etc. Maybe you could even do a special lab where you fool around with Raspberry pi? Even so, I understand that this is a lab for kids, and that my personal tastes aren't always what everybody else wants.

There were many things that I had fun with and enjoyed and other things that I found difficult. Some modules that I really enjoyed were robotics and flowlab. In robotics, I really enjoyed making the obstacle course and maze. It was cool to use python as well to control the robot. Just like the robotics module in level 1, I enjoyed this robotics module as well.

Flowlab was a fun way to make 2d games. I really enjoyed working on the project. I hope I'll have time to make more in the future :)

Somethings that I found difficult were making vr in the code editor and making different 3d models in OpenSCAD.

In making vr in the code editor, I had trouble remembering how to write code and using the inspector. The nav-mesh as well gave me a hard time. In OpenSCAD, although I found it very cool, I had trouble in using two shapes to make cuts such as in the chess piece project.

This year was filled with so many fun and cool subjects that I was glad to learn about. Thank you Mr. MyTek for all your help this year :)

Thank you so much Mr. and Mrs. Mytek. The Myteklab has been a very fun experience and I hope to go to further levels and learn more about the mindset (specifically the mindset) of a master programer. I liked the faint outlining of competition among peers and I hope to see more of that in future. It added a sense and desire for overachievement. I regrettably did not have very much time on my hands this year, but it was soooo much fun. The only application I had problems with was the robotics simulator. I don't have a great computer and it really made the computer lag. On one occasion my computer completely froze up. But other than that, I thought it was a great system and was obviously well made. Thanks again to Mr and Mrs Mytek. This has been a great year! :)

I really loved this course, it was something I looked forward to during the week! I didn't realize that I enjoyed pixel art and game design as much as I do until I tried it here. Programming and especially web design is definitely something I can see myself enjoying and improving at in the future. To be completely honest, my least favorite segment of the course so far was robotics, though I can't pinpoint exactly why and it's likely just a matter of preference and interest or lack thereof in my case. I'd like to learn more about making video games, especially story-driven ones, and cool looking websites in the future.

Thank you so much for teaching me this past year! I've learned so much.

I had so much fun this year from VR to 3D modeling! You make every lesson simple and because of this, I think you are a great teacher. One thing that I would add is something for the overachievers; like badges or achievements such as becoming top 10 on any of the leaderboards. Have a great summer break and see you in level three.

Gabriel Garcia

The applications I most enjoyed using over the past year were Pixelart, tilemap editor, Flowlab, OpenSCAD, and Mytekserver & vim (surprise!). I like how with Pixelart & tilemap editor, one can make a Pixelart scene which looks like it has lighting with lighter colors and gradients. In the Flowlab game that I made, I figured out how to make ground objects that the player can go through which disappear on contact and reappear when not touching the player. When I was making the OpenSCAD chess pieces, it was cool to see how the odd-shaped and nearly flat polygons turned into 3-dimentional shapes that look like chess pieces, and minkowski-ing shapes together was interesting. I think Mytekserver and vim are kind of fun and I liked all of the things that one can do using vim. Overall, I had a lot of fun this year with all of the topics we covered.

The Final Words

Sorry this is a week late, I did not see that it was due then, I thought I had until the 30th. None the less, I am going to complete this assignment. This course was a wonderful way to extend my knowledge about coding and computer science. Developing the games was very rewarding, but my favorite module had to be OpensCAD. Dealing with vim, while important, I struggled with it and found it challenging, but at the end of the course, even with the work I did today, I feel more comfortable with the process of vim. Thank you for this great course and I hope you have a wonderful summer. I am planning on doing level 3 but have not confirmed that with the business of the past few weeks. If I do not take it, have a great next year of a class.

Thanks for all you did this year,

-Henrik

Hey! I just wana say that I really enjoyed this class and that you were an awesome teacher. There is noting bad I have to say about the experience or what I learned about. For me, my favorite thing to do was Web dev, it grabbed my attention and kept me busy when I was bored. I also enjoyed developing the pong type game, although it was hard, I like solving problems and enjoyed the process of the project. Thanks for being an awesome teacher!

2021-2022 Reflection

- This was my first year in mytek and boy has it been a treat. I enjoyed makig little projects every now and then for this course. My favorite things to work with would have to be Pixel Art, working with the tiles, the making of the small web pages at the beginning of the year , the small clicker game and more recently, I found myself enjoying playig around with Flowlab even if it isnt meant for bigger games. I'd love to learn more about more progams and the making of programs that inclube art but maybe that's just my artist instinct talking. Overall fun year. One of the best courses I'd think.

Hey MrMyTek, i really enjoyed this course and i will definitely be taking some kind of myteklab course next year, i for the most part liked all of the things we covered or studied. i really liked using linux and vim and i think python is a useful language to learn. html is nice because its kind of simple or readable to me.

i would maybe like to learn more python not just in robotics but a broader spectrum, also css is fun to me because there is alot of progress for a little amount of work compared to other parts of coding. but all in all i really enjoy myteklab and want to pursue this and keep learning.

Over the course of this year, I have done many projects including a porg calculator, a porg throw game, and an adventure tile map. I have enjoyed all of it but there are a few things that I liked most: first is my flowlab project which I am still adding to, second is my tile map which I wish I could make into a game, and third, I loved my ingenious (if I do say so myself) solution of building a ceiling for my robot to detect instead of a floor. All in all, I have thoroughly enjoyed my mytek experience and I hope to have another great one next time. So, thank you once again Mr. and Mrs. mytek, for a wonderful and fun year.

Reflections

I learned a whole lot this year! After coming back from the first year I was really able to build off all the block coding and concepts that I originally learned. I had plenty of highlights for the year. Semester 1: Learning more about VIM after the summer class was fun. By the end the idle game was wayyyy cool! Even though I'm pretty bad at art in general the Cityscape turned out great. Semester 2: VR was super cool especially incorporating all the different elements and seeing the end product. I had recently gotton a 3D Printer when you started the 3D Printing course so that was awesome! I never thought that making games would interest me or be very fun but Flowlab showed me that I was wrong. And finally, even though VIM can be a little difficult at times it is still quite interesting to learn how it all works especially in my mind how it corrolates to Linux systems, if that makes any sense ;). There was not too much that I didn't enjoy this year other than the Robotics, which confused the heck out of me but was still cool. This is just an overview of how I felt this year. I hope it helps you and gives you some insight on "stuff". Thank you for the amazing year, can't wait for the summer class and level 3! (Sorry for this being quite long, just had a great time)

I personally loved this class and how you taught it. Your teaching was fun but didn't get off topic (👽most of the time👽). I really liked flow lab and the 3D printing, I am thinking about getting a one so hopefully we do it next year. Oh, and I am going to be in your class next year! -_- Thanks for all the time you spent teaching me, it was a blast! Thanks, Ryo

I really enjoyed working in the code editor. Not only because it was easy, but it was also simple to use and easy to follow. I had much fun using that. I wasn't much of a fan of vim just because you just have to be perfect(imo) when using it and that's not what I am lol. But I did start to get a hang of it later throughout. I would have liked to put in more time on some of the projects but this year has been pretty hectic. So maybe I'll catch up on some things over the summer break. Overall I had much fun with this class!

I think I liked everything in this class :D This was my first year in Myteklab (I tried it because Jeremy liked it lol) and everything was so fun! Nothing was too hard or too easy. I especially liked making the idle game because I play a lot of videogames and I'm really interested in programming games and web pages and would like to learn more about them in the future. Code Editor was also great because I'm not a huge fan of Vim -- I'm not good about saving my work. XD But I loved Code Editor because it's easy to use and it auto-saves your work.

Thanks for being an awesome teacher. I had a great school year. Here's the application so I enjoy working with:

Web Dev: I like it because it's the main application we used, and it has important things to build a website. HTML, Code, P5, and API are some things I have to study on more to remember it. so I can use it later.

Blockench: As I probably said in my portfolio design work I enjoy block bench because of something I would use as a nice application for 3D models, and blueprints, to build upon then design it real time.

BlocksCAD: I like it because I can create and use it as a 3D model to print out.

My mixed feelings about certain applications:

BlocksVR: I enjoyed blocks VR because everything is virtual but also certain things should be fixed. Mainly the textures because it multiplies and it isn't too realistic or the theme isn't the way you want, but it still works so that's fine! I do feel like BlocksVR needs to be updated in a way, however since I'm still learning the application I don't know fully what it has to offer. I do enjoy it, especially the components because that just brings everything out.

Robotic simulator: I do enjoy it because it's challenging but at the same time way too challenging. On the other hand it is a nice application to work with because I've always wanted to do robotics. In a simulator this application is a difficult to work with when I don't know all of the steps. Certain projects I don't quite understand when it's not fully finished because I have to think of it on my own. It is great because I can teach myself and have discipline to finish strong and figure out what was the problem.

Thank you for all the encouraging words and helping me through challenging projects. I'm grateful to be your student and I can't wait to be a part of class in fall. See you soon Mr.MyTek.

Thank you :))

This was my first year of doing mytek and i loved it! I wanted to say a huge thanks to Mr. Steven for being such a great teacher! I definitely learned a ton and enjoyed it all, personally my favorite type of code is using the code editer, the application is great and really easy to use. Since i did't take the first year and i went straight to level two i had some diffuctly on some of the more challenging asinghments but it was okay cause it tested my coding ability. My favorite assingment was probably the flying plane game and the programing robots. Once again thank you so much for everything and ill see you next year in Level 3! Byee!!! :D

Throughout the year, I learned a lot about computers. What I learned the most about was coding. My favorite assignment this year was creating a log cabin at the end of semester one. My favorite application was webdev. In addition, I enjoyed creating my own games. Thank you for the fantastic class this year!

- Anna Ramponi

Level 2 was fun. There was never a lesson that I did not like. However, this does not mean that no ever lesson annoyed me. A few of the lessons had bumps that took a while to fix (eg. Dying and restarting in Flowlab took a while to fix) or were simply ignored and incorporated into the final project (eg. The maze walls in the Vr Maze project were hard to keep track of and resulted in an obscure maze pattern.) Despite this, the harder projects were my favorite because they required more thought, time, and energy put into them, and thus the final result was usually more impressive. My favorite project would most likely be the Vr maze for reasons stated prior and how we learned how to properly utilize lighting and hitboxes. The thing I liked the least, though, would most likely be how the floor disappeared in the robotics section. Thankfully, this did not have any meaningful consequence and was simply a nuisance. I feel like diving deeper into any of the projects would prove to be beneficial for differing reasons.

I started off with my computer, a massive set of data, and my willpower. I molded a website out of zeros, ones, and a massive library of code. I began with some simple CSS rendering, and then proceeded to add 3d graphics. I then removed them, as I realized that Mytek WebDev Blocks do not support 3d graphics. I then wrote a paragraph, added custom buttons, and more. After some time, I ended up with a fully-fledged website. I then duplicated it into four sites: Design, Code, Other, and Gift. I wrote a bit, added photos, and ended up with everything I ever wanted: My greatest ever website.

My favorite assignment was probably the 2d game development. I will continue to learn the software and further develop my dungeon crawler.

I wasn't a big fan of 3d modeling using coding (it may be because I am used to blender), but I can see it being useful for websites.

Despite this dislike, I enjoyed developing actual games, both Vr mazes, and the plane.

I also plan to further explore vim and get far better at navigating it.

I liked almost all of the applications but vim was particularly difficult for me. Also, the VR stuff was not too easy for me as well. I enjoyed using the code editor when we needed to. At first, I preferred the code editor over vim but I actually like vim a lot I just wish it was easier to use. The pixel art background project was very fun though the tile function thing was really buggy. The Flowlab application was also another fun application to use and it had awesome features and wasn't too difficult to use. My only problem with it is that it's kind of limited to what you can do with it. I had downs and ups with all of the applications but overall i think they are all great and I enjoyed all of them.

I liked this course and I had fun learning the different things in design, programming, and robotics. Overall I think the course is great. Although I found this course pretty easy but it was very helpful to explain the things we were doing. The live classes were always fun to be in(Especially with Mrs. Mytek being a banana. I am glad I was put in this course and I hope other people feel the same.

I really enjoyed working with Flow Lab for that one week. I would like to learn more about video game design. I shared the game with my cousins and they really liked it. I liked the simplicity of it and how easy it was to place the blocks. I also liked the 3D modeling we did this year because we used code instead of block code. My other favorite was the robotics programing we did. The part of it I liked was getting the robot through the maze.

The application I like least was using the mytekserver for vim. I think I am one of the people who fall into the category that does not like it. I am taking the level three class with you next year and I am looking forward to it.

I enjoyed every application and module and besides the coding part which was sometimes difficult but the one thing I kinda disliked was the VR only BECAUSE it was buggy on my part and I wish it looked more realistic. Also, I would love to see short clipped videos in the future about lessons that have to do with what was taught and could possibly help kids if they can't get through whatever it is, like discord, email, etc. In general for this class in the future, I'd love to do anything that includes coding; I enjoy it because it's a challenge and it isn't as easy as many would think.

I really enjoyed this year of Myteklab. I wish that there was some sort of Flowlab thing, but apart from that I don't have anything bad to say. I would love to go more in-depth on Jsketcher and do more with the networking models. I also liked the form at the end of each assignment. The open-ended assignments were very fun, even though I didn't actually solve many of them. I enjoyed the process. I really want to make a game in Flowlab, so if you can fit that into the curriculum It would be great.

I wish that mytek could go on forever, but it can't so i'm gonna have to wait till level 3 even tho i can't wait for level 3 in the fall XD. My favorite project this year were most defiantly Flowlab tho making the drawing app was also super fun! The thing i think i didn't like the most was probably VR or Three.Js.

Here are some Flowlab games

https://flowlab.io/game/play/2003567

https://flowlab.io/game/play/2005488

My drawing app.

https://www.myteklab.com/codeeditors/preview/2794

First off, I enjoyed almost everything this year. The classes were well organized and when the zoom chat got hectic it was closed to only message the teachers (a life-saver for the ones trying to focus). Some of my favorite parts were the flow lab game and when we started using vim at the end of the year. I wouldn't say I liked the 3d modeling, probably because I don't enjoy that stuff. I also disliked the pixel art badges, especially when we tried to integrate them into a page. It was very complex and hard to keep track of the syntax. Other than those two, I enjoyed everything else as I said above. The course seems a little bit long in my opinion, but definitely worth it if you put your mind to the concepts. Sometimes, I felt like the lessons could have gone quicker in the zoom classes, at least the coding parts (I like speed coding). These past two years of Mytek will definitely help me on my journey to becoming an engineer. I am sure there will be modeling software and basic coding I will recognize in my college classes this fall and on. Thank you for everything, truly!

My favorite topic of this year was probably robotics coding with Python. The syntax was a little easier for me to understand than other coding languages. And it helped me better understand syntax in other coding languages. I also enjoyed using A-frame and building the maze. I struggled with using the API's and I'm not creative enough to make pixel art lol. But I still enjoyed both.

Looking back on level 1 I would have to say one of my favorite modules 3D modeling It really drew me in and I have come to learn it's something I really enjoy doing. Another one of my favorites was pixel art! I enjoyed the concept of being able to make my own world with just a few simple tools. one of my least favorite modules was robotics/programming only because I found it didn't come easy to me but I'm glad I pushed through. All and all I really enjoyed this course It was my favorite course of the year and I learned a lot! So Thanks Mr.Mytek!

Code Editor was an application that we used quite a lot and I am glad that we did. There is so much to it, but it is also intuitive and fun. OpenSCAD was another application that I really enjoyed. I thought that it would be like Blockbench (Blockbench was very difficult for me), so I immediately thought I wouldn't like it, but it ended up being one of my favorite applications. FlowLab is one of the many applications that I explored and used on my own. It is very cool in the way that it gives you an immersive experience in what you created. Three.js Editor is a wonderful tool to help discover your fascination with programming because of the way it displays your project, so it is in my top three favorite applications. Something I would like to explore more in the future would be the Code Editor and the FlowLab application.

This year I had a more difficult time I would have liked to spend more time on the flowlab application because i enjoy making games like that but the the robot simulator was not very fun and I had a lot of trouble figuring it out. I also had a lot of fun in the VR module because it can be changed very easily and is just fun to play with.

2021 MyTekLab Year Reflections

Hello MrMyTek, and thank you for everything you have taught me! I really enjoyed this year, and I learnt a lot about programing. Before this class I thought I knew JavaScript, but I was proven wrong! Most of the stuff we did I did not even know that you could do with JavaScript, like P5 (one of my favorites) and A-Frame (I DISliked). I now know MUCH more about CSS and a little bit more about HTML. HTML was one of my strong points, but I struggled in JavaScript and CSS. I think that flowlab was boring and so was the robotics sim. I disliked the robotics sim because it was annoying and only worked in Firefox which is bad. As for flowlab it was too easy and was for babies. Plus, after all the text we typed this year, I think that drag and drop was almost like going back to level one. I liked working with vim (or in my case nano) and on the server. I really like server-side work and am looking forward to next year when we do more server work. Bootstrap was a bit too simple because all you have to do is copy and paste. I know that there is a lot of people in the class and not all of them type at the speed of sound, but I think there was too much copying and pasting. I like to type out all of the code and understand it as you go, not just copy, paste and then read and understand. Pixel art was cool but I am not good at pixelart so my city scape was, well, not TERRIBLE, but was not the best. VR. Well, it was OK, but not cool. And lastly threejs. Threejs was probably my favorite because we worked in the server (witch I like), and we used threejs (witch I also like) and we made a cool game at the end. There is not much I would say you could improve for next year, the codeeditor which we spoke about, maybe think about giving students more asset space (it runs out fast you know) and perhaps having a better in-house messaging system. I think that's all for this year and I am looking forward to level 3. Until then, SEE YOU!

The assignment I liked working on the most was probably Flowlab because it
was easy to work through, and I got to design my own game, and I intend to
continue expanding on the game in the future. Next, I liked working on
the calculator and pong game because they helped me understand how coding
works, and it was fun seeing how the finished product worked. Lastly, I enjoyed
working on the 3D models because I am interested in how they work and what goes
into making them, and those assignments were really informative. Also, I found
those assignments to be a little tougher to complete. These are all things I enjoyed working with and would like to learn more about and work with again in the future

I least liked the robotics assignment because I feel like there should have
been another project to do with the robot; however, I did enjoy finding out how
to make the robot stop before going off the edge.

I think that I thoroughly enjoyed everything that we learned this year and all the different fields of technology there are. However, I don't think I enjoy working with vim that much. I don't know if there are any better options available but I prefer to be able to use my mouse and also easily switch between files without needing to focus on typing out several commands. I feel like it wasn't a huge issue for most of the year but it became more of a problem with the web socket game when I needed to swap back and forth a ton and couldn't do so easily which made it difficult to experiment and fully grasp everything that was happening in my opinion.

Favorite Topics of the Level 2: A-Frame and ThreeJs.

Least Favorite Topic of Level 2: Maybe Pixel Art.

Technology Topics I Would Like to Learn More About: JavaScript and Three JS.

Liked: Making the Flowlab game, seeing what can be done with JavaScript.

Disliked: Python having being able to have more local and global variables with the same name, slowness of the working with the Robotics Simulator.

I really enjoyed just about every topic in level 2, and though some pushed me to hard, I was able to learn a lot.

This year at the MyTek lab was quite intresting, i had to see and learn what people do when coding, and how creative they can be.
I liked the intresting informations about how certain things work, but i didnt like the amount of activity it was going around in the chat.
One thing i would change would be to allow students to have their microphones on, its easier to communicate that way or to have for the last 10-20 minutes of the classhour for questions and answers.
Overall It was a great class and i enjoyed it.

Have a happy and wonderful summer vacation :D

"I thought thoughts, upon the thought of thinking of thinking thoughts." - Marco Polo

I had fun this year working on all the projects. As difficult as it was working with vim, I found myself flying around linux making the capstone project and so I feel like I did really learn something. I know it wasn't pretty and I don't have an excuse for running out of time.

During this class the assignments that stood out the most for me where Robotics, Game design and Web design. Least favorite although growing extremely slow on my Linux. And it's not that I don't like it, it's that I don't like not knowing how to use it and getting stressed and scared. I would like a more 1 on 1 type learning so I can intake the information better than just listening to you for 50 minutes copying what is on the screen and repeating the same the following week. I know 1 on 1 is impossible because you only have 24 hours in a day and can't dedicate 1 to every student. Instead of the 1 on 1 learning I think collaborative projects could also be an option. And all that is left to say is Thank you! Have a great trip!

i really enjoyed learning about coding this past year, and might come back for level 2, though there were parts where it seemed tedious like when we made our computer setup, but it really just narrows down to the motivation and interest i had to finishing the assignment or to go above and do more, like when we made the bookshelf. if i wanted to learned more it would probably be just how to generally make a game, any kind. my favorite project would be blockbench thank you for a wonderful year.

I thought it was hard I really in joyed robotics coding and making flow lab I enjoyed the p5 coding and using python the only thing I did not care for was making the maze it frustrated me to the core but when I got the hang of it it got fun and enjoyable I tried to make it better but could not over all I thought this year enjoyable good luck in the summer classes and fun on your road trip William.

The three applications I enjoyed most this year were Veb Dev, Pixel Art, and Blockbench. In Veb Dev specifically, I liked working with HTML and CSS. I liked Pixel Art because I could create whatever I wanted. I liked Blockbench and the challenge of making things only with cubes. While BeepBox was not my favorite application, I liked listening to what other students would make.

so this in the thing that rly stood out is that we only used myteklab code editor we didnt use anything like vs or something like what and most of the lessons were just fallowing the project we didn't learn how do to this stuff on our own and that's rly what i want to do i know a little on what to do outside of class on my own project but its not much

next most of the time i felt the class was going to slow you reading all the chat and stuff i know you have to help people but i didn't like just sitting there waiting for you to pick the class back up and move on it was not very bad but a little annoying

i like how you don't expect 100% just to try your best and overall your a good teacher and it fun to be in your class!

if anything is spelled wrong im sry

Well over all, i enjoyed this class. I think you did well as a teacher, and I actually can't think of anything that I would say you could improve on. I'm sure of course there is something that could be fixed, bc we're human, but none come to mind. I think the overall problem was me. But I thank you for what you've taught me. I hope to continue web design through MyTekLab even if I am not a student. I bid you good day, woo.

This year a learned a few things about robot and 3d development. I came in with prior coding experience so it was a bit basic for me but it was a little fun and I liked the web development the best. Something that was a bit distracting was when you read messages in the zoom chat thing. I actually only came to the first few live labs because it was more efficient for me to just skip around the video just because I was a bit ahead in skill level. I know that there are lots of different skill levels in the classes and you have to work with everyone, it just felt a little slow sometimes.

This was a good class Taught by people who made it interesting, and the most of the modules were good and not too complicated the ones that I like but are not limited too, Flowlab of course, making a website, and the cabin. ones that I did not enjoy are the P5 game not all of it was not enjoy just some of it and bookshelf mainly because of me.

I really liked this course but I didn't like the robotics and final assignment. It felt very rushed and I didn't know what to do in those projects. In those two projects I was just watching the teacher do the assignments for me and I just submitted them without knowing how to do them. The other projects I loved, blocksVR, WebDev, Pixel Art, and FlowLab were my favorite applications. Every time we use any of those applications I got excited and I knew what was happening. I spent a lot of time when we use those applications and I had a lot of fun using them. The teacher was great and probably the best one I could have got to start my technology experience. I would love to join the summer course but I'm going to be very busy during the summer I would see if I can join next school year. =)

Even though I fell behind on quite a few assignments level two was a really fun class. I really enjoyed the game we made at the end of the year. If I had to choose two things I didn't enjoy as much it would be robotics and VR. But mostly everything was really cool and I also want to say how helpful discord was for asking questions.

The Course this year was fun and interesting, with only a couple assignments that I didn't like. Some weeks I really enjoyed were Week 2 Linux command Vim and Week 8 - JavaScript Idle Game. The first one was helpful outside of class and the other one was a fun assignment. The two modules I didnt like were Week 14 - 3D Modeling for 3D Printing. It was a little tedious but I understand that it was to teach us about how to make shapes with the polygon function The other was Week 19 - Three.js, It might have been better to build something simpler like a box you could move with keyboard controls or a simple game with a cube or GLTF model jumping over a simple obstacle. it may have been good to have snipits of code and also give instructions on how to write the code without snipits for some parts.

I liked using JavaScript. and P5.js. I liked making interactive pages. I also liked learning the Linux Commands and the CAD scripting.

I'm not sure what I would like to do next but I am excited about the next semester.

some ideas:

Another mode of the code editor with file &
folder creating for better separation and scrolling of html js css with
limit on file type (html, css, js) and size.

Make the themes for the code editor go across the whole code editor background.

Some more "paint" features in the tilemap editor.

Add an option in BlocksVR to remember the position of the camera when A-frame scene is re-rendered.