CSC322.01 2016F, Class 11: Iteration 0: Wrapup
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_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
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### 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
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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
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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
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You will have some time to work on your presentations.

* Trello can help for showing tasks.

Presentations
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### 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
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