S-Stem Scholar Monica Sanchez's Blog

After speaking with professor Frisby, I decided to take a break from tensorflow and get familiar with linux operating systems. I decided to download the Ubuntu operating system on my laptop alongside Windows to get started. I followed tutorials on the Ubuntu website to teach me how to download Ubuntu onto a USB, and then use the USB to install Ubuntu on my laptop without deleting Windows. Now when I start up my laptop, my laptop asks me if I would like to use Windows or Ubuntu. I am going to use a website called linuxjourney.com to start learning more about the different things I can do with a linux operating system. I do not know much about Ubuntu, but I have always been interested in learning about it, so I am very excited about this project.

Week 3 has been really insightful. I am still getting errors with my beginner code to ensure everything is working, so I wanted to look more into downloading tensorflow on my computer so I could compare. I don't understand, but I am getting a strange error of sorts. The python "helper" thing tells me my code runs without error, but the output states that I need to change parts of the code and other information. I want to talk to professor Frisby tomorrow to see if he has any idea what's going on. I found a really nice sample on github that I want to use. I had some trouble with the windows download because i still do not fully understand the concept of a virtual environment, which is recommended when you download on windows. I found a really nice article that walks through using the github sample and I'm excited to use it. Since I am starting to get into more coding classes this semester, I feel a bit more knowledgeable with what I'm doing compared to last sem...

Week 2 was pretty frustrating for me because I had issues importing tensorflow with python. I was getting an error saying I could not import an object, so I had to try to troubleshoot what was going wrong. I eventually found online some commands I could run that might help override it. I was very happy that it worked, but I had issues with the sample code I was supposed to run. I was getting a syntax error, and since python is new to me I could not really understand what was going wrong. After a lot of searching online, I found that the tutorial I was following had incorrect syntax, so I found a different tutorial that was actually correct. I was not getting the desired output though, so I spent time restarting the raspberry pi to see if I could get the correct output. For some reason it kept putting a ( b' ) in front of the output.

I started the first week back looking over sample code for our tensorflow project. I reviewed a couple tutorials that show what I need to do to train sample codes. Parts of it are really confusing, but i'm hoping that when I get into it, it will make more sense. I wanted to study the code so I could understand what it is doing, since I will need to be able to mess with it more to suit my needs. I was having trouble with the raspberry pi so I updated everything to ensure it would work better. I pretty much spent most of the time prepping myself to start getting a sample running next week. I did not want to start with running the code on the raspberry pi because I had to order a keyboard for it, so I spent this week focusing on the code that I would use and understanding python syntax.