Second Time Through

This week was another code-review week since we're coming to the end of the second six weeks. I got to see Stephen's code which was pretty interesting because his game had this preset internal structure and all he had to do was make the functioning game itself. It had the main screen outline as well as interactive option buttons, which is something I wanted my android app to also have. However, his was some kind of "Japanese C" code so it was pretty new to me. I'm going to have to show him our team's code because it's not on the aisd computers, but on a laptop which was present Friday. It's alright since we still have some time to go until the end of the six weeks. As for our project, I'm actually starting to get the idea and just going through the tutorial at a slow and steady pace actually lets me learn the stuff, instead when I was rather just skimming the tutorial resulting in multiple errors.

From Half Days to Internet Crashes

As expected, we barely had anytime this week to work on our project. From internet crashes to days cut short by the PSAT, both days had some type of time constraint. I did get work done on my tab layout app though. I also tuned into the conversation about networking and its future at LASA. I also observed students making cables, stripping the covering and fitting them into the ends. We are making further progress on our phone directory app also. We're learning about SQL, or structured query language, which is used to communicate with a database. We are still testing this out, but the ideal situation would be us learning how to implement our own specific database. Then we would be able to associate this app a bit more with our unique needs such as inputting a LASA directory.

Approaching Multiple Tutorials

This week our group had been working on two different tutorials. Reason is that if one becomes to complicated or if we wish to discontinue the tutorial, we have a backup to start working on immediately. One of the tutorials includes a phone directory of some sort where our group is modifying the tutorial to fit our own needs, for example, turning the text to purple and adjusting some other factors. The other tutorial includes a tab layout tutorial hopefully teaches us how to implement the use of tab switching in our app. As I look forward to next week, I realize that we're going to have very limited time because 1) we only have two workdays, and 2) Wednesday's going to be cut extremely short due to the underclassmen taking the PSAT.

Sharing our Knowledge

This week we continued working on our project, and made a bit of progress partially due to having only 1 work day. On Wednesday, the entire class period was devoted to presentations where everyone in the class taught each other about what they've done so far and what they plan on doing in the future. I did my presentation with LB and BB. We all took a share in the presentation and I feel we did pretty good. We mentioned that we still have a lot of work to do before we can achieve the ability to make our own unique app. What we said was right, and is what we plan on doing for the next couple of weeks.