Hi so I am not really a reddit user, but a student of mine thought it is a good resource for my problem. I’m looking for some guidance on a programming project I want to do.A bit of background, I’m a 21F student majoring in vocal at a music center/college. For work, I am a teacher at a small music shop. My boss is in her 50’s and is the head teacher and owns the shop. She is a really amazing musician and my mentor and she is the one who got me to fall in love with music. However, she is very traditional and strict and makes me work very hard. She still has the traditional Vietnamese conservatism and can often be overly critical. I forgot to mention that I am in Vietnam.As a side project, I really want to learn how to program a computer. I have tried several times, but have not been able to really do anything except basic things ([crying emoji). I tried using Ruby and Javascript by learning on CodeAcademy and EdX, but I just have not gotten very far. Thinking in code is really hard for me because I don’t do it before. The more I thought about it, the more I realize that it’s a common with my students. They have a hard time imagining the musical concepts in their brain so I have to draw it out to help them visualize it. That gave me the idea to make a tool to help my students “see” the music better. I want to make an app that will visually graph the vocal wave of my student’s singing. Kind of like a guitar tuner, but for singing.My problem is that I am very busy with school and work so when I asked my boss for permission to make the app she said it was dumb and that it was a waste of time. When I told her that it could really help the students, she said that if I really want to help the students I should spend my time teaching more. I can’t change her mind and now I feel like I can’t do anything. I live in her apartment so she always knows what I am doing and am afraid she will swear at me if she catches me.I really think this project can help a lot of students and help me finally make me a programmer, but I don’t know how to start. I am looking for guidance on exact steps to start out to make a program. I tried the online classes and MOOs, but they don’t help me enough to do this idea. I can do a little bit of different things, but I don’t know how to make something complete. I also tried YouTube tutorials, but they don’t have exactly what I need. I am looking for any other options to try to quickly get started on this and not get caught.I am imagining an app that uses a phone/computer microphone to listen to the frequency of a voice and displays it on the screen to give feedback to the student. For example, a student can sing a “C” note and the graph will show him if he is really in “C.” Just like tuner, but since the voice is more layered than an instrument, I want the feedback to be like a graph instead of a meter.I am not really sure who to ask, so I am planning on posting this in any channels I think are related. Feel free to delete or move if I put it somewhere it doesn’t belong. Thank you everyone in advance! I’m excited to be a real redditor!TL;DRI'm a music teacher from Vietnam who has very little time and is trying to learn how to program to make a graphical audio-tuner for my students, but my boss thinks it’s a waste of time and don’t want me to do it. I’ve already tried learning with CodeAcademy and MOOs, but still can’t figure out how to start this project. I want to make a program that shows a graph of the notes that a student is singing for better feedback. I need any advice on what else I can try?
Submitted November 17, 2019 at 12:40PM by Rosie_En_La_Vie
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