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CST 300 - Week 5

Part 1: Comments for Classmates
I commented on Bodey and Julie's journals this week.

Part 2: Capstone Ideas
After viewing all the lovely capstone projects, these are three ideas I have for the projects I'm most interested in:

1. Making a simple multiplayer game
2. Creating a mobile phone app with VR support
3. Building and programming a self navigating robot
Part 3: What I Learned
This week, I learned about all the different types of logical fallacies, how to avoid them, and some useful information on loaded words. Learning about logical fallacies, in my opinion, is one of the most important parts of critical thinking. Without recognizing the logical flaws in an argument, it's impossible make a compelling argument whether formally or informally. I have been guilty of many of these fallacies in the past(especially when I let my emotions get the best of me in an argument), but now that I am older and more knowledgeable I won't fall to such traps in the future.

 I worked on my ethics paper this week as well, but unfortunately not as much as I would have liked. Work was incredibly busy as I expected and I've been working 8+ hour days almost every day since last Thursday. It's tough, but the nature of my job calls for it sometimes. 





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