CSC 322.01, Class 17: Work time

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions

News / Etc.

• I’ll do a quick check-in with each group to hear your plans for the week. The rest of the morning is yours. The mentors and I will be available to answer questions.

Upcoming Work

• Paper: Comparatively reflect on the the new draft ACM code of ethics.
  • E.g., What changes do you see as particularly important? What other changes do you think should still be made? What else belongs? What doesn’t belong? Etc.
  • Compare to the prior ACM code of ethics.
  • Approximately 1000 words. Correct grammar and spelling. I may invoke the MC/JS rule if there are multiple problems with grammar or spelling.
  • Due via email at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2
• Regular work on projects.
• Weekly Project Report, Friday at 5pm
  • What did you accomplish this past week?
  • What do you hope to accomplish in the coming week?
  • What obstacles stand in your way?
  • What resources do you need to help you accomplish your work?
• For Tuesday: Read Chapter 3 of POODR. (Read Chapters 1 and 2 if you have not read them already.)

Good things to do

Note: I do not do extra credit in two-credit classes.

• Convocation TODAY (11 am in JRC 101). Important topic, excellent speaker.
• Strange Escape Room stuff.
• Protest Bot workshop, Friday 4pm in Burling 1st.
• Last local foods pizza night of the season, Friday.
• Swimming and Diving Saturday 9ish-1ish.
• Tailgate 11:30 Saturday on the Grassy Knoll.
• Football Saturday.

Questions

Sprint Goals: Survivor Support

Current sprint

• Meet with Title IX officers (Tuesday). Summarized. Followup meeting with client. 1 pt. DONE.
• Bug: Multiple choice question causes crash. 1 pt. DONE.
• Bug: Remove name from matching causes crash. 1 pt. Not yet done. But meeting suggests that the matching option may not be there in the first place.
• Bug/feature: Facebook URL of respondent/accused required (?). Looking for an alternative. Discussing with client. 1 pt.
• Container site with resources (broader than Grinnell’s). Assumption that everything is on one site. Creating spots for the resources. Another Django project. 3 pt.
• Investigate what resources other schools are providing. 1 pt.

Prior sprint

• Looked at Grinnell Sexual Resources site. Found it very scattershot.

For future sprint

• Learn about security of Heroku. Title IX will be contacting head of cybersecurity. Reminder: Wes B. works at Heroku.

Other notes

• They need user stories.
• Q: Is “guide for others who want to install Callisto” a project list?
• Q: Who is keeping the resources site up to date?

Sprint Goals: Local Foods

Status

• Database and API are working.

Primary goals

• Add authentication to API. N points.
• Connect to authenticated API from Javascript. N points.
• Display full farm information. N points.
• Forms for getting data into the database (least priority, but likely).

Next sprint / backlog

• Search by keyword.
• Filter by keyword.

Observation

• Need to talk to client about how they will get the data. Will the client survey the farmers or will they ….

Sprint Goals: PALS Gals

Goals for the current sprint

• Registration for new volunteers.
  • Set up Gems 2pts.
  • Sign-up form (view + contoller for new) 3pts.
  • View profile. 2pt
  • Set initial preferences. 3pt.
• Administrator: View list of volunteers. 2pt.
  • Comes with ActiveAdmin.
• Administrator: Filter list of volunteers by preferences. 2pt.
• Community board: Framework - routes lead to stub pages. 5pt.

Goals for future sprints

• Update preferences
• Community board - Post.
  • Shift.
  • Ride.
  • Everything else.
• Community board - Read.
• Community board - Filter.
• Community board - Followup.
• Community board - Delete.

Sprint Goals: Mayflower

• Securely put resident pictures on AWS [2 pt]
• Find Gem to grab pictures from AWS (CarrierWave or something similar) install and get running. [4 pt]
• Deploy to Heroku. [6 pt]
• Clean up UI. [5 pt]
• Usability research. [3 pt]
• Meet with clients [6 pt]

Sprint Goals: Heartland

Historical

• Mock ups of lots of things
• Prototype of Web site

Current goals

• Install Devise Gem [4 pt]
• Investigate payment system [4 pt]
• Javascript rich text editor [original estimate 6 probably 12]
• Use Bootstrap and CSS to transform the prototpe Web site into something more attractive and acessible [5 pt].
• Google MAPs API [5 pt]
• Improve searching [3 pt] (solved problem by others, but we need to figure out how)
• Email server (but probably a bad idea)
• Meet with client [5 pt]

Sprint Goals: GPCF

Background

• They have a list of observations of problems with the code.
• They’ve been delegating problems to people. Points are 1-4. If the problem is 3 or more points.

This sprint

• Sign in as an organization. It wasn’t clear that organizations were not approved. So the task was “Flash message that you are not approved.” [3 pt]
• RSpec tests not running [3 pt]
• Needed easier sign-in and sign-up process [4 pt]
• Calculation of volunteers is incorrect [2 pt]
• (No client meetings this sprint.)
• Bugs in create event (wrong times). Needs exploration [3 pt]
• Write more tests [2 pt]

Backlog

• Appearance/UI [2 pt]