CSC 322.01, Class 33: Project check-ins

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions
• Regroup
• Visits with groups

News / Etc.

• Welcome back from break! I hope that you had a relaxing time.
• Congratulations to our baseball team for sweeping the blueboys.
• I had hoped to do a Rails project during break so that I could better learn Devise; paperwork interfered.
• Warning: I may need to miss portions of classes for the next few days to do some interviews.
• Yes, CSC322 now meets 1-3pm MWF for the rest of the semester. But you don’t have to do (much) work outside of class.

Upcoming work

• Normal project progress.

Good things to do

• Today at 4:15 p.m., JRC 101: “Sad! Or Stronger Than Ever? American Journalism in the Age of Fake News, Social Media, and Donald Trump.”
• Tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. JRC 101: The 1st Mando lecture. “Reflections By Pulitzer -Prize-winning writer Dale Maharidge & photographer Michael Williamson.”
• BAX Opening Reception (plus Robert Hodierne photographs) Friday 4:30-5:30. F aulconer gallery.
• CS Table tomorrow! Gadfly: CS Apps for Democracy!
• Baseball games Saturday at 1pm and 3:30 pm vs. Monmouth (if it ever stops rain ing)
• Track and Field Saturday at Cornell at 11 am.
• Women’s Tennis Saturday at 10:00 am

Questions

SpamR

Goals

• Render emails on home page (3 points)
  • Working on that. Thinking about stealing Bootstrap code.
  • Working on the layout of each message.
  • Know how to fetch them.
• Fix content parsing bug; needs help with apostrophes and ellipses (1 point)
  • Mostly done. One small problem with lots of newlines with embedded pictures. Rule: More than N (3) newlines, compress to three newlines.
• Test content parsing (3)
  • Getting all of the contents from the random spam Sam has been sending.
  • Throws away hyperlinks. Boo! The Gems are getting in the way. Might look into what Nokogiri is doing and if there are alternatives.
  • These are “by hand” tests, not unit tests.
• Add tags to messages (2)
  • Using a taggable Gem. Attaches an array of strings.
  • You can search by those.
  • How will these get added? Subject bar search for title.
  • Might also do text searches.
  • No UI for tagging.
• Investigate filter/search algorithms (2)
  • Working on it
  • Have forgotten the code they wrote before break
  • Starting on searching based on tags.
• Finish admin model (3)
  • Thinks it’s working
  • Need to write tests. That’s the next step.

Observations

• Don’t work on the main branch!
• Separate cloud 9 vms is fine.

Job board

Goals

• Flesh out testing (create tests) [5 points]
  • Have about a dozen tests. Got to deal with Devise chaos.
  • Using whatever you get with rake test.
• Skin additional pages [3 points]
  • Mostly a case of getting Bootstrap in place
  • Front page skinned. Nothing else.
  • Should check other devices.
  • Verified permission to use.
• Filtering [2 points]
  • Know how to do but haven’t done
• Searching [4 points] (if there’s time)
  • Not yet
• Maybe some other things, too.

Volunteer board

Goals

• Merge branches [3]
  • Almost complete; just need a few fixes to event stuff.
  • Trouble merging admin one, but should get done today.
• Create organization login [2]
  • Working on it. Might be done by end of class.
• Create user login [2]
  • Not yet done; working on views first.
• Create user view [2]
  • Have ideas on how to do. Creating a CSS file and other templates.
  • Have not yet used Bootstrap, but will
• Create organization view [2]
  • Have ideas on how to do
• Create event view [2]
  • Have ideas on how to do
• May need to work on controllers, too.
  • In progress. Mostly under control.
• May need help at the end of today’s class or the start of next class.

Curricular planning

Goals

• Create landing page [3 points]
  • Still in progress
• Research separate user types on dash board [2 points]
  • Research is done
  • Models are done
  • Designed what they want to do
• Implement separate user type son dash board [2 points]
  • This week!
• Create login page [2 points]
  • Done
• Design student interest input engine [2 points]
  • The user experience / workflow
  • Focusing on the first-time-through experience
• Implement Dashboard create course [3 points]
  • Figuring out what needs to be known
• Test newCourse POST function [2 points]
  • Working on tests
  • They mostly exist, but working on it
• Create newCourse POST function [2 points]
  • Created.

Notes

• Mostly working individually

Mayflower

Goals

• User pages: Search results [5 points]
• User pages: Profile [5 points]
• Decide on testing framework [2 points]
• Tests for login page [3 points]
• Tests for search [4 points]
• Tests for admin login [3 points]
• Admin user model [3 points]

Notes

• Has switched around people.