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Lam Nguyen's Log

Lam Nguyen edited this page Apr 27, 2020 · 15 revisions

Lam Nguyen's Log


Week 1: 1/25/2020

Had the first team meeting to catch up with the rest of the group. Discussed REACT, Visual Studios, Github, Javascript, and the the project outlook. We explored the logistics of the github, forking, committing, push requests and synchronizing this with Visual Studios.

After having an idea of what I should be doing, I feel like I could investigate a lot of parts of this project.

Action Items:

  • Investigate React

  • Create my Visual Studios platform and synchronize with fork repository

  • Creating my first test commit with the repository

  • Investigate the CSS to make the webpage look better

  • Investigate the JS to see how the backend works

Week 2: 2/02/2020

Completed Action Items:

  • Investigate React
  • Create my Visual Studios platform and synchronize with fork repository
  • Creating my first test commit with the repository

Met with the team and Vidal for the first time, discussed testing milestone. Will be looking into React type testing and behaviorial testing with nightwatch.js.

Action Items:

  • Investigate behavioral testing with nightwatch.js on our WebApp
  • Investigate the CSS to make the webpage look better
  • Investigate the JS to see how the backend works

Week 3: 2/09/2020

Completed Action Items:

  • Investigate the JS to see how the backend works
  • Investigate behavioral testing with nightwatch.js on our WebApp

Met with the team again, discussed basic algorithm with data formatting and setting up workflow.

Action Items:

  • Investigate the CSS/HTML to make the webpage look better
  • Catch up with team on backend algorithm

Week 3: 2/09/2020

Completed Action Items:

  • Investigate the CSS/HTML to make the webpage look better

Just updated the webpage's CSS and HTML Organizations, I believe it makes the mage a bit more digestible.

Week 3: 2/16/2020

Worked on milestone, changing the interface greatly. Reorganized the file structure for template files and CSS

Week 4: 2/23/2020

Wrapped up work on the milestone for the beta. Met with the team for a 2 full day and a half to work strictly on the website. I focused heavily with getting the html of the website settled and ready.

Week 5: 3/01/2020

Submitted the beta, and started looking at beta issues. Going to look for investigating sitewide variables to work with.

Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.

Week 6: 3/08/2020

Going to look ahead to try to figure out better and more elegant ways of displaying the website. Ideas for the separate pages as well.

Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.

Week 7: 3/15/2020

Had some ideas and inspirations from other websites' views and layout. Will try to employ certain techniques to make our webpage look modern. Additionally, try to figure out if making the website mobile friendly is feasible

Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.
  • Mobile friendly? different resolutions,

Week 8: 3/22/2020

Started investigating different HTML elements interactions with the node js framework, going to employ massive revisions to the website to make it mobile friendly.

Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.
  • Mobile friendly? different resolutions,

Week 8: 3/22/2020

Closed many lingering "issues". going to try to implement different urls as follows. I know to do this in Django, node js shouldn't be too more difficult.

/upload - users use this page to upload their file /request/:id - after uploading they see their uploaded data in this page, can change data /schedule/:id - shows the generated schedule

Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.
  • Mobile friendly? different resolutions,
  • Implement URLs

Week 8: 3/29/2020

Completed Action Items:

  • investigate sitewide variables and the work with the html elements.
  • Implement URLs

Completed and did two major redesigns of the website. URLS are completed. Closed many many issues

Action Items:

  • Mobile friendly? different resolutions

Week 9: 4/05/2020

Released RC1, pruned the code, made sure all changes from all members worked together and looked presentable. Overall a good week.

Action Items:

  • Mobile friendly? different resolutions

Week 10: 4/12/2020

Met with the team to discuss the scheduling issues with our algorithm, and finished up some issues left behind by RC1.

Week 11: 4/19/2020

Worked on Q&A, made sure to extensively review C-2319's project. Created 10 issues. Regards to our own issues created by the USCneXtPlatform team as well.

Week 12: 4/26/2020

Completed Action Items:

  • Mobile Friendly
  • User Friendly UI
  • General Restructuring
  • Popups

I dedicated myself to work purely on the visual aspect of this web app, the web app looks great as of right now. Going to finish writing peer reviews and finish up writing unit and behavioral tests.