CSC322.01 2016F, Class 11: Iteration 0: Wrapup

Overview

Preliminaries.
- Admin.
- Questions.
Note: Weekly reports.
Note: Presentation format.
Preparation time.
Presentations.
- Board Bank
- Head Start Notifications
- Resource Portal
- Grant Application Management
Work time.

Preliminaries

Admin

Today: Group check-ins!
- Each group should describe the tasks that they are currently working on, the points assigned to each task, and so on and so forth.
Wednesday and Friday are work time. Please plan how you will use that time to your best advantage. (E.g., meetings with clients or mentors. Exploring code base. Drinking coffee.)
I have not yet heard a revised meeting date from MICA.
I forgot to bring money. I'll try to remember on Wednesday.

Questions

Weekly Reports

Starting this week, every Sunday night each group should send a weekly report to me and to all the mentors (not just yours). The report should cover the following four points.

What did you accomplish during the past week?
What do you hope to accomplish in the coming week?
What obstacles stand in your way?
What resources will help you accomplish your task?

Presentation Format

We will have presentations every week on Monday. We'll alternate between quick presentations (next week) and more substantive presentations in which we conclude one iteration and start the next. Today's will fall somewhere in between.

Intended Goals. Remind us of your goals for the time period and the points you associated with those goals.
Overview of Accomplishments. Which of those goals did you accomplish? What other (unexpected) things did you deal with along the way?
Demo. Show off the current state of your system, focusing on the parts you were working on.
Code Walkthrough. Show us an interesting part of your code from the past two weeks and explain it to us.
New Goals. What do you intend to accomplish over the next two-week iteration? What points have you assigned to each task? How are you dividing the work?

Please strive for organized and coherent presentations.

Time To Prepare Presentations

You will have some time to work on your presentations.

Trello can help for showing tasks.

Presentations

Board Bank

Cloned the Repo to Cloud 9.
Created Trello accounts and looked at tasks.
Planning to read Cucumber tests.
- Everyone
- No points.
Planning to document files.
- Breaking up by folder. But may want to break it up.
Ask us next week about what comes next.
Talked to mentor.
Talked to clients.
Meeting with mentor on Wednesdays at 3:15 p.m.

Head Start Notifications

We send out text messages to parents about late start days and ...
Tasks
- Validating phone numbers. (It does it wrong.)
- Editing student info. (Not currently supported.)
- Back-end template support. (Front end support was created. The back-end stuff gave lots of errors. Figuring it out.)
Accomplished
- Can edit student info.
- Know code base better.
Skype meeting with mentor on Friday.

Resource Portal

Trying to understand code and updating documentation.
Trying to understand database.
M and S on refactoring categories to permit categories and subcategories.
- 60 page PDF has categories and subcategories.
R Adding and updating data.
C and C think about displaying categories and subcategories
Talked to mentor.
Need to talk to Blake.

Grant Application Management

First goals:
- Get repository onto their machines and onto Cloud 9.
- Set up a remote development branch that all four are tracking.
- Got rails server working.
- Looked at lots of files to see how they mapped.
- Heroku is difficult.
Lots of things to work on
- Some specific small changes
  - Top-left header
  - Keep admin portal better hidden
  - Currently assigning
  - Reached out to alumni mentor
Strategies
- Separated and tried to get working.
- Working together tod discuss steps.
- Split into parts for presentations
- Really short "By the next time we meet ..." tasks.
- Used whiteboards so that there's something to look back on.
- Had devil's advocates
  Work Time