Day: January 26, 2020

How Do I Become a Leader for the Future

In Quarter 5 and Quarter 6 of the simulation, you will be finalizing your report to the board. One important area of your board report is your plan for the future. This weeks discussion will focus on how leaders need to be thinking and acting in new ways to understand problems and craft long range solutions to potential challenges.

In your readings and videos for this week, it is clear that leaders must learn to think and act differently to be successful in the future. This is not as easy as it sounds and takes practice.

• Main Response
  • Conduct a search for exercises or methods that will encourage you to start thinking differently, as suggested in the Gladwin video and in your readings. You can use the University Library or any other source you uncover in your research. The Barlow Video in your reading is one example that was found in the Library and you should be supplying at least 2 other sources in addition to this weeks readings and videos.
    • Share at least 3 results of your work in this discussion area for your main post. Select at least one of these exercises or methods and in your post show how you have used it to address an issue that you faced in the simulation
• Response to Peers
  • In one of your follow up posts, select 1 technique from a post that your classmates have uncovered and work on a problem of your personal choosing to show how it can help you in problem solving and solution generation.
  • Suggest improvements to others in their posts to help improve the quality of the problem solving they have demonstrated.
• Using your readings, the information from prior courses, including, GB540: Economics for Global Decision Makers, and GB560: Designing, Improving, and Implementing Processes and personal experience will be helpful to you in your Discussion response.

Assignment: Motion

As Bryn Campbell (1978, p. 52) wrote:

The illusion of movement can be exaggerated or even created. The progress of an action can be analysed within one or a series of photographs. Finally, there is what one might call the personality of movement-grace, tension, effort and even humour. It is a rich area, both in black and white and colour.

Photography is the art of freezing motion in meaningful and beautiful ways. Capturing movement sometimes requires the photographer to react quickly with exact timing. Motion can be one element of a complex composition, as in the photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson we studied this week, or can be the single dominant element of a composition.

There are two basic ways of capturing movement in a photograph, based on shutter setting. A fast shutter speed will freeze movement at a given point in the frame. A slower shutter speed will record movement as a blur. The choice of what shutter speed to use depends on the meaning, look, or sensation the photographer is trying to convey.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review Chapter 7 in your course text, The Photographers Eye.
• Choose one technique from this weeks reading to apply to your composition of a photograph representing motion.
• Review the articles in this weeks Learning Resources
• Apply one technique from this weeks readings to convey a sense of motion in your photograph.
• Compose and take the photograph.

By Day 7

The Assignment:

• Create a 2-slide PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:

  Slide 1:

  • In one photograph, apply one technique from this weeks reading to the composition of a photograph representing motion.
  • Include a brief description of your photograph (title and subject).
  • Slide 2:
  • Write a 2- to 3-paragraph description of the technique you chose from this weeks reading. Explain how you applied this technique in the composition of your photograph. Include answers to the following:
    • How effective do you think you were at achieving your photographic goal?
    • What might you do differently next time?
• Be sure to cite at least one example from the course readings to support your writing.

Please answer the following questions

Why is Python a great starter language? 

Historically, one of the first programming languages we learn has been some variant of BASIC. This is no longer the case. 

1.  Why was BASIC good in the past? 

2.  Why have we moved to Python? 

3.  Feature-by-feature, how powerful is BASIC vs. Python? 

4.  Which language of the two do you feel would be more valuable in your career?

5.  If there were another language you would choose as your first, what would it be? Why? 

Code Wars: Scripting vs. Programming

6.  What are the differences between scripting and programming? 

7.  Is one harder to learn/apply than the other is? 

8.  Research what code portability is. Are scripted languages easier/more difficult to port than programming languages? Why?

9.  Are there any features or power differences between scripting and programming languages? 

10.  Based upon your research, can/should scriptarians be considered programmers? Why/why not?

Be sure to cite your research according to the guidelines.