Week 8 - BALT 4396 B - Skills

 Skill Acquired

Throughout the past 8 weeks of class I was able to obtain basic AI knowledge. I have already been introduced to AI and software's like ChatGPT and Python in my courses. But I felt that we were thrown into it. I had a statistic class that would also focus on these on the side. It wasn't something we were ever tested on or was on our homework, but we did look at a lot of stat/math examples on Python. I was honestly confused and intimidated for a good part of my math course. 

I felt that if we had taken a class like BALT 4396 before doing advanced math on python, it would've been a lot easier to work with and understand. I had a lot of the basic knowledge down myself already before learning about it in this class, but it felt like a refresher. Some f the skills that I have acquired are opening files/ notebooks, giving ChatGPT a prompt, running a notebook/cell, Numpy, Pandas, etc. I also understand how to choose and work with different data structures and functions. I wouldn't say I'm great at this, but I can build off as these are the core of coding. I think it'd be a great think for Professor Kelsey or other professors to teach more classes like this. I'm sure there are a lot more students that are interested, but it's also pretty beneficial to provide students with these skills before going off into the professional world. Maybe these will be essential skills someday.