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This week after much testing and work our team presented the final working project to the client. Our presentation was in depth and long, and went over the troubles experienced as a result of this global pandemic, but also our triumphs throughout. Overall, it was a very successful presentation of our work and the clientContinue reading “Final Presentation”

This week the team successfully connected the database and the UI, with some preliminary testing. The meeting with the client went well, changes to the projects schedule were discussed with the changes to all of our lives during this pandemic. Work on the final presentation of the application has begun, and more testing will follow.

Our team handled this pandemic by being honest with eachother, and what we could deliver to the client. Sizing up what we had as deliverables, and what we could create during this time of turmoil was a main topic of discussion. We were able to demo a usable UI, that the client enjoyed. Feedback wasContinue reading “Week 9: Pandemic Problems”

This week we completed the core of the facade in node.js and submitted it to our teams github. The database has been completed, so work has begun on connecting the facade to the AWS database. We are waiting for word from the UI team for when they are ready for us to create a hookContinue reading “Week 8: Core Completed and Hook in the Works”

This week the facade team did a quick stand up to break apart the basic programming needed to complete a functioning facade to support the UI team and Database team’s work before the first presentation to the client. Refresher: We decided upon using Javascript, Express, Node.js, and React libraries to create the facade. This weekContinue reading “Week 7: Final Stages of Facade 1st Iteration”

This week we had a group meeting and decided upon our plan within the facade group. This included learning some libraries most of us had not worked with yet. namely: Express, Node.js, React This weekend the group will read through the documentation, find IDE’s most useful for our native OS’s and regroup on sunday toContinue reading “Week 6: Facade Meeting”

This week the team met in the library to finalize a presentation for the client based on last weeks standup. The major needs were: -Focus on a template for a UI entry point for room data and session entry, use that template for all other entry UI -Focus the ERD on the session as aContinue reading “Week 5: Team Meeting on UI and ERD Changes”

This week the team met with the client to talk over the initial impressions of our presentation of a draft of the ERD (Entity Relation Diagram) and draft of a UI for the application of a counting design to be used for Boston Code Camp. The ERD sketches out a plan for the database toContinue reading “Client Meeting on Drafts of ERD and UI”

Today our team sat down to discuss further the requirements of this program being contracted to us. keypoints: -tally of members at a lecture during beginning, middle, end -avoids human error of counter -output of this data in an easy to read format (excel?) -Discussions on specifics of code camp activities and changes in scheduleContinue reading “First Meeting with Client”

This class requires an online course of our choice to supplement the in class group project work. As I have some experience in cybersecurity due to a Coop, I wanted to learn more in a class setting. As a result I have selected this course: https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/uwashingtonx-essentials-cybersecurity The course is titled Essentials of Cybersecurity, and theContinue reading “Post 3: Online Course Selection”