Time Log for Nora Coon

4/11
7-7:15 Administrative work for group
7:15-7:30 Standardized code documentation as recommended in class.  Explored UML diagram and tried to choose work priorities.
7:30-7:45 Reviewed code.  Came up with plan for evening.  Decided to implement the basic Game of Life as our test case.  Decided to modify code from other groups for predicate.py.  
7:45-8:00 Modified and implemented predicate files.
8-8:30 Tried to figure out multidimensional arrays in Python.  With very little success.
8:30-9 Kept working on localworld.py and tried to implement using lists of lists.

4/12
5:30-5:45 Analyzed and tried to understand code written by other group.
5:45-6 Learned how to use multidimensional arrays - matrices - in Python.
6-6:15 Modified localworld.py, creature.py, and species.py and began testing in Python3.
6:15-6:30 MADE LOCALWORLD.PY ACTUALLY GENERATE A GRID!!!!  HOORAY!
6:30-7 Improved localworld methods, including toString(), toSerialize(), fromSerialize().  Created testclass.py to contain basic tests of function.  Tested testclass.py and was pleased at success.  

4/14
8-8:15 Caught up on progress with group members.
8:15-8:45 Worked on textual user interface (TUI)
8:45-9 Worked on testclass.py trying to implement and improve unit tests.
9-10 Continued working on testclass.

4/17
12:45 Began experimenting with tKinter.
1:20 Began trying to construct a Main Menu for the GUI.
2:40 Finished rudimentary Main Menu with buttons (no event handlers yet.)

4/20
7:00 Debug Main Menu and GraphicsUI problems
7:35 Begin implementing SingleUser game screen
8:30 Added initial working version of SingleUserScreen to svn.  Began trying to improve display of buttons and entry fields.  Debugging MainMenu button in SingleUserScreen.
9:00 Stopped work for the night.

4/21
6:00 Began implementing radiobutton version of species selection menu.  Commented out to allow for group choice as to which should be used.
6:50 Preliminary implementation of radiobutton menu finished.  Began researching how to change width of Button, Entry, and Listbox widgets to avoid unseemly highlighting currently happening.
7:15 Began putting widgets into frames.
8:00 Put Entry and Listbox into frames to fix grey area problem, but same solution didn't work for bound buttons.  Switching to research on how else to control grey space.
8:45 Stopped for the night.  No progress on controlling grey space.

4/24
2:00 Group meeting.  Explaining current code and GUI project status.
3:00 Creat diagram of all classes and their functions.
3:30 Consider using grid instead of pack.  Go through code with group.

4/27
6:45 Begin reviewing changes to code.  Read more about tkinter and looked at Button factories in tkinter.
8:45 Paused work to switch locations.

4/28
7:00  Began pair-programming w/ Jordan and Aaron.
8:30 Have been working on fixing the appearance of Menu and BoardSetup, as well as repeatedly testing and debugging various classes.
9:00 Have been testing and debugging BoardSetup.  Also reformatted code to fit standards (<80 chars/line)
9:30 Pass testing off to Josh.

5/2
2:00-3:00 Began learning about networks.  Worked on testing and debugging DummyListener and DummyWorld as well as pickling enumerated types (not actually possible), which we converted to a non-nested class.
3-3:30 continued testing and debugging, trying to make sendSpecies() work.

5/3
8-9 AM review code in tandem with readings on networks and sockets.

5/4
7:00-8:00 Working on understanding code.  Made network accept a client successfully.
8:00-9:00 Debugging methods in worldserver.py.  Work on problem of netsetup accepting clients after acceptclients has already run; create a true/false flag to prevent.
9:00-9:30 Updated Direction import statements so that everything will work.

5/5
8-8:30 Tried to figure out how to get clients to send messages to the server, i.e. lists of instructions.
8:30-9 Research on sockets.  
9-10 debugging/high-level discussion about how turns should work
11-12 More research on sockets.

5/6-5/13
forgot about time log.  spent some hours (would estimate 4) working on buildcreature gui, but cold meds meant that my code was generally terrible and so was not checked in.

5/14-5/20
5/15: Spent 1.5 hrs trying to clean up some of the packing in the Species Editor, but ended up breaking it.  Restored to original version.
5/17: Spent 2 hours creating a working Credits GUI.
5/18 Spent 1 hour linking Credits to Menu and cleaning up everything/debugging.