A lab report is a document that describes the scientific method and results of an experiment or study. It is commonly used in academic and professional settings, and serves to communicate the methods, procedures, findings, and conclusions of an experiment or research project.
Lab Report
Abstract
Using internet to search for resources has been a tool everyone could use in modern days. Most of the time people uses google to conduct research but there are other engines that can be used to find for more reliable and knowledgeable source. A experiment was done in CCNY with 28 students and each students with its own topic to research. The experiment here conducted research on “game coding lab report” in 3 engines Google, Google Scholar, and CCNY database. The purpose was to see which engine was the most reliable by finding which website gives the most reliable lab report on game coding, which turns out none was able to provide me with a lab report. The outcome of the experiment is rated on relevance, authority, currency, accessibility, and expectancy based on the researcher’s opinion. The experiment result wasn’t able to provide enough support to the researcher’s hypothesis nor it provide support for other engines being reliable because of no lab report was found.
Setting:
This is a lab report to find which search engine is the most reliable when it comes to finding information one wants. The experiment contains 28 students from a class to participated in it, they have to use google, google scholar, and a database they choose to conduct it. The student must come up with their own search phase and explain how it’s related to their major they want to study. Then they use that phase to search on the engine they choose and see what’s the result. Next, they must open the result they found and have a quick scan through it to see if it much his/her expectation. Finally, they will express they result and write a conclusion on which search engine was the most reliable. The report can be used to grade ones understanding the structure, tone, and purpose of each section in an engineering lab report. It can also help to see someone’s critical thinking skills and their ability evaluate the difference, same, good quality, and bad quality between the information they find as results.
Introduction: The purpose of this report is to find which search engine is more reliable from the phase you type in. The way to prove this is by reading the article that the search engine provides you and see which one is more detailed and give lots of information. For my search phase I choose “game coding lab report” because learning how to code games is why I choose computer science as my major to study (Although I give up my dream and choose money over it).
Hypothesis: I believe that the CCNY database will be the most reliable source when it comes to finding information than the other 2 sources. Google search will be the last reliable source out of 3 because it is a engine that provide basically every source you can which means it can also include fake source and false information.
Literature review:
The article was written by Anders Avdic and Ander Eklund students of Orebro University. Its purpose is to report student’s research skill by conducting an online survey on 150 students in Orebro University. Results of the research were analyzed by calculating and comparing medians. The results provided the conclusion with that students faces problems on researching base on their ages, gender, experience, and voluntariness.
Objective:
The purpose of this lab report is to find which search engine is the most useful and trustable. We were giving 3 search engines google, google scholar, and a database we choose ourselves which I choose CCNY database.
Method:
In order to do this experiment, you have to come up with your own search phase and use the engine to search for the topic, the first 10 source that was shown (video can’t be included) is taken as the result. Since there’s 3 engines, there was a total of 30 source as the results. After finishing this, you have rate them by relevance, authority, accessibility, currency, and expectations from 0-5 on a google form so it can be easily transferred to google excel sheet later. Once you get into the google excel sheet, you need to graph the result base on your rating on the 30 sources from google, google scholar, CCNY database. The professor will demonstrate how to create a graph using google excel in class.
Material:
- Google Scholar
- CCNY Database (or a database you choose yourself)
- Microsoft word
- Google forms
- Google excel
- Computer
INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:
The purpose of using these search tools is to see their reliability on finding information one wants, I was trying to find game coding lab report which at the beginning I expected finding little or none because game coding is just basically another topic that is related to coding for programmers. The search tool use are google, google scholar, and CCNY database.
Google:
Google give me website on using games to learn coding which it wasn’t part of my expectation, since I was expecting something more like a lesson on coding. Nine out of the ten website were base on gaming and only one was based on a article. All of the gaming websites require to create account and some require a payment to be used. I believe why so much gaming website shows up is because the word “game” since coding games is pretty famous for learning how to code so when you put game and coding together then these websites shows up.
Google scholar:
Google scholar was pretty normal, the topics were about game coding (no lab reports) although some articles were off into another field, but I expected that. There was a article that was pretty old, it was from the 1900s and I didn’t expect for such old article, I mostly expected to be at least publish after the 2000s. The main problem of sources google scholar provided was that some articles cost subscription to read the full article which it backs one off.
CCNY database:
CCNY database give me what I expected, books on learning how to code (although there is still no lab reports) even if some topics were off like google scholar. One of it was way off it was called the “Search Problem” the topic wasn’t even related to engineering or math. By looking at the result I realize that CCNY couldn’t provide the same topic as much as the other ones, only 4/10 of the resource was related to game coding which it’s the engine that provided the least related topic unlike the other 2.
Conclusion:
I would say what limit me finding a lab report on game coding is the word “game”. Since game coding is just another topic that is related to coding for programmers. The difference between normal coding and game coding is probably very little base on that both need coding language to function, so in my opinion what limit my result is game. If I just put “coding lab reports” I would gotten a few reports on google and google scholar. Another limitation is the search phase we used, since we are stuck with one search phase it decreases the percentage of us finding better results. Some topics may have a specific name in their field. An example for this is my biology class, I didn’t know that bean beetles have a scientific name called callosobruchus maculatus, the name give me some help while I was searching information for my lab report in biology.
My thoughts on the search tools I use is that Google give a lot of source that can be untrustable/trustable/knowledgeable/educational , Google scholar has lots of source cost subscription to use, and CCNY database provide you with the littlest but most trustable source. The most surprising one I found about is google scholar, I thought google scholar won’t go off topic because it’s google but it did went off to neurology and stuff which surprise me. Google has always been something that I think I can rely on to provide me lots of information, but I didn’t even know it could run off topic in just 10 articles. But I would still use it along with the other 2 in the future depending on topics I’m searching for, if I’m searching for a cold topic I would most likely use google since it can provide more information than the other 2, but if I’m searching for a hot topic, I would use google scholar and CCNY database because it’s much more trustable.
My hypothesis was that CCNY database will be the most reliable search engine to use. But none of the sources I found in the database nor in the other 2 relevance was above a 3 although I expected that. Google, Google scholar, and CCNY database couldn’t provide me a lab report on the topic I wanted, it only provide me instruction on game coding, articles related with the topic, and gaming websites. The conclusion my experiment provides me is that it couldn’t provide enough evidence to support my hypothesis.
Reference:
- Coding Games and Programming Challenges to Code Better
- CodeCombat – Coding games to learn Python and JavaScript
- Learn | Code.org
- Tynker: Coding For Kids, Kids Online Coding Classes & Games
- Top 10 Game Programming Languages: The Beginner’s Guide
- CODE.GAME – Interesting platform for kids to learn
- 15 Free Games to Level Up Your Coding Skills – Skillcrush
- The 12 Best Coding Games of 2022 – HubSpot Blog
- Game Development Guide: What Coding Languages to Learn
- 12 Free Coding Games to Learn Programming for Beginners
Google Scholar
- Effects of the gamification supported flipped classroom model on the attitudes and opinions regarding game – coding education
- The source coding game
- [HTML] Neural coding of basic reward terms of animal learning theory, game theory, microeconomics and behavioural ecology
- [HTML] Battling gender stereotypes: A user study of a code – learning game ,“ Code Combat,” with middle school children
- Dice: a game theoretic framework for wireless multipath network coding
- [HTML] Long non- coding RNA MIAT in development and disease: a new player in an old game
- How a Remote Video Game Coding Camp Improved Autistic College Students’ Self-Efficacy in Communication
- [BOOK] Introduction to Game Physics with Box2D
- The rebirth of California fish & game code section 5937: water for fish
- Patient coding and the ratings game
CCNY Database
- Beginning Game Programming with Pygame Zero : Coding Interactive Games on Raspberry Pi Using Python
- Repeated intersession network coding games: efficiency and min-max bargaining solution
- Unity® Virtual Reality Development with VRTK4 : A No-Coding Approach to Developing Immersive VR Experiences, Games, & Apps
- From Android games to coding in C—An approach to motivate novice engineering students to learn programming: A case study
- A beautiful math : John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature
- Android Game Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach
- Coding careers in entertainment and games
- Search problems
- Repeated Inter-Session Network Coding Games with an Average Cost Share Pricing Mechanism in Congested Networks
- Entropy concentration and the empirical coding game
