CSC 322.01, Class 13: Project Check-ins

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Questions
• Group visits

News / Etc.

• What did you learn from Cassie’s visit?
  • We have alumni mentors, if Sam ever assigns them. (And they are not scary.)
  • Some useful Gems
  • It’s not that bad that we don’t have everything mastered; it’s a gradual learning process.
  • It is possible to be successful after Grinnell.
  • No one ever finishes their projects.

Upcoming work

• Project!
• Presentations a week from today.
  • Maybe with demos?

Good things to do

• Alex swiftly teaches Swift tonight at 8pm in 3821
  • Bring your computer.
• CS Table Tuesday
• Women in CS Tuesday
• CS Extras Thursday
• Diving this weekend
• Met opera Saturday
• Last Chance swimming Sunday
• Prezak Quartet Monday

Questions

Group visits

• Roles
  • Project manager / leader / … - herds cats (this can rotate)
  • Communications specialist - sets up meetings with clients; person for clients to contact; sets up meetings with soon-to-be-appointed mentor (this should not rotate)
  • Presentation lead (this can rotate; but don’t use Prezi to rotate, it makes people dizzy)
• Plans for client meetings
• Check in on tasks for the iteration
• Obstacles?

Curriculum Planning

• User story: “As an administrator, I want to indicate which classes are offered in which semester.” (subset)
• Login system
  • Set up Rails - 3 points
    • Done.
  • Find and install Gem for authentication - 3 points
    • In progress.
  • Create user database table - 3 points
    • and Figure out what goes in the table
    • Waiting for devise
  • Design login page - 2 points
    • Done
• Enter classes
  • Create class database table - 3 points
    • In progress
  • Design class input page - 2 points
    • In progress
  • Make it save to database - 3
    • Blockeda

Will present to rest of class on Waffle.io on Friday.

Mayflower

People

• Check

Status of tasks

• Find and install Gem for authentication - 3 points
  • Will check on the Gem recommended by other groups.
  • Devise
  • ActiveAdmin
• Finish learning about current Mayflower database. Email contacts to find out where info is stored, what form, and such. - 1 points
  • Talked to IT person. Still on vacation.
  • No intranet.
  • Info is in an Excel spreadsheet.
  • Can’t really help until he gets back from vacation.
  • [This task is increasing in potiness.]
• Figure out how to incorporate into software - 3 points
  • Probably cancelled.
  • Will want to compare Excel spreadsheet to planned user model.
• Create wireframe / prototpe UI for the login process - 4 points
  • Sketched.
  • Talking about it with clients on Wednesday
• Meet with Stone to discuss security - 2 points
  • Will meet with Stone. Tuesday, planning time.
• Meet with Mayflower clients to update (discuss user stories, show wire frames) - 2 points
  • Still planning

Volunteer Board

What are your primary goals for the next two weeks? How many points have you assigned to each goal?

• Meet with client to discuss user stories. 3 points.
  • Planned for Wednesday.
• Map the UI framework of how you get to each place. 2 points.
  • Working on it.
• Paper version of framework. 2 points.
  • Done electronically
• Explore the board bank software. 4 points
  • Making progress looking at both code and physical site.

SpamR

• Go over user stories with client. 2 points.
  • Done.
• Write tests! Go for TDD! 3 points.
  • Working on it. Dealing with the wonder of Cucumber. Just writing features, not the step definitions. May need some help.
• UI for Web site. 2 points.
  • Realized that they should work on back end first.
• Learn CSS and HTML. 8 points.
  • Pushing to later.
• Rough Scaffold in Rails. 1 point.
  • Done.
  • Using Devise.
  • Also has ActiveAdmin.

Newly added tasks

• Look at how you parse emails in Rails. 3 points.
• Create models. 1 point.
  • Done.
• Looking at user statuses in Devise/figure out Devise. 1 point.
• Look into tagging gem and install if appropriate. 2 points.

Problems

• How do we self populate for the tests? (Sam and Adam will work on that on Wednesday.)
• How do we get together? TBD.

Job Board

• Interview students so that we don’t build something like GrinnellLINK. [1 point.]
  • Done.
  • Would like to favorite jobs.
  • Do you have to be a US citizen? What year? (Filtering.)
• Write user stories. [2 points.]
  • Done.
• Consult with clients re user stories. [2 points.]
  • Still to be done. Will set up appointment.
• Think about UI issues. [3 points.]
  • To be done.
  • They’ve realized that there’s too much on GrinnelLINK, and they want something simpler.
• Add some users and login system. [3 points.]
  • Done. Devise does it automatically.
  • Should look at ActiveAdmin.