Laura & Severin - Carets

[s-wigg]

Video Store Consumer

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
For each person in your pair, describe something you learned from your partner during this project	Severin learned how to approach styling from a systematic and analytical viewpoint from observing and pairing with Laura. I learned troubleshooting tips for the front end such as adding colors to show the boxes for different html elements. Laura understands Backbone better now from watching Severin's approach to structuring the relationships between views and models in Video Store.
What was one area of Backbone you gained more clarity on during this assignment?	Collections versus models and the event calls within each (what's this within each element). We also encountered another asynchronous javascript issue and a great TA was able to help us learn about and use .then to overcome it.
Describe how you solved the problem of having lists of movies that look mostly the same but have different content	We have radio buttons that allow you to toggle between searching within the inventory and within IMDB. We visually differentiated the IMDB search results because they have a red button so you can add them to inventory if you wish.
Describe how you handled rentals with Backbone?	Our movies have inventory that is increased when in an IMDB search you click a button to add to inventory. We choose to spend our extra time on optional design elements such as taking in the average rating information from the API and displaying it.
Describe a DOM event your application handled	In the Movie_list_view we have an event that is triggered when the All Movies button is clicked. The event triggers a render method to display all the movies in the inventory.
Describe a custom event your application handled	We have a event that triggers off of the submission of the search form, that when triggered causes a custom method called submit to execute. Submit determines which type of search is being performed based on the value of the radio buttons and executes the appropriate search (inventory vs IMDB via API).
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	We thought it had the appropriate amount of required work with good optionals.

[CheezItMan]

Since this isn't doing anything different than the default, overriding parse is unnecessary.

[CheezItMan]

Video Store Consumer

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene - pair contribution	Check
Comprehension questions	Check
General
Search functionality	Check
Rental library listing functionality	Check, nice work with the red checkmark
Add to rental library functionality	Check
Underscore Templates	Check
Overall Look & feel	Really nice styling, I love the rollover effects and the differentiation between IMDB and local library items
Optionals	nice that you got some basic testing in!
Overall	You hit all the learning goals of the project, I'm glad you got to share expertise in styling and structure of Backbone. Great work!