Skip to main content

CSC 322.01, Class 25: Start of fourth sprint / Presentations

Overview

  • Preliminaries
    • Notes and news
    • Upcoming work
    • Good things to do
    • Questions
  • Presentation prep
  • Presentations
  • Work time

Preliminaries

Moment of silence.

News / Etc.

  • Welcome back from break!
  • In case you’ve forgotten, our weekly “rhythm” is
    • Monday: Presentations and work time
    • Wednesday: Work time
    • Friday: Reading discussion and work time

Upcoming work

Dealing with grief

  • Let me know if I can help.
  • Let me know if adjustments to workload would help you cope. (reasonable adjustments)

Good things to do (Academic/Artistic)

  • CS Table Tuesday: Unknown topic
  • 4pm Tuesday in DLab: “Updating Close Reading for the 21st Century”
  • CS Extras Thursday: Unknown topic
  • Danforth lecture on Thursday at 11 am in JRC 101. Robert G. Bergman. “Irreproducibility in the Scientific Literature or: How Often do Scientists Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?”
  • Visit the two exhibits at the Faulconer Gallery. (Are there still two exhibits in the Faulconer gallery?)
  • Roxanne Gay talk Friday noon (?).
  • Violin concert tonight at 7:30 p.m.
  • Cello concert Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Tabla concert Friday 7:30 p.m.

Good things to do (Peer)

Good things to do (Misc)

  • Softball April 7 at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
  • Men’s Tennis, April 14, 21, and 22.
  • Track and Field Dick Young Invitational April 21
  • Singers Sunday at 2pm in S-L.

Questions

When will we be getting our CSC 321 grades?

When Sam finishes rewriting the grading software.

Presentation prep

Twenty minutes.

Survivor Support

Accomplished from spring 3

  • Implement stack of pages [4 points]
  • Progress on next page questions to have “next page attributes” [4 points]
  • Django-Girls Tutorial with Herok [3 points]
  • New pages (resources, contact) [2 points, expected 6 points]
  • Research on accessibility for frontend design [6 points]

Ongoing work

  • Demo for simple branching [2 points]
  • Meeting with Title IX [2 points]
  • Modify existing templates (footer, reports) [2 points]
  • Learn/brush up on CSS [3 points]

Velocity

  • Depends on how you count.

Plans

  • Back end
    • Finish changing question objects to include “next page” attribute [4 points]
    • Add “next page” field to admin interface [4 points]
    • Make a demo for simple branching [4 points]
  • Front end
    • Modify existing templates (footer, reports) [2 points]
    • Finish website design to make it more usable [2 points]
    • ARIA [2 points]
  • Other
    • Learn CSS [3 points]
    • Learn abou accessibility [4 points]
    • Meet with Title IX [1 point]
    • Meet with Rabbi Rob [2 points]

Q&A

  • Why more points on this sprint? We have weekends!
  • When does learning stop? You seem to include a lot of that. It’s going down. But we were working in a different environment than the rest of you.
  • Will you talk to us about accessibility? Yes. [Sam says: A week from Wednesday.]
  • What is this ARIA thing? _Additional information for the screen reader, such as things to add or subtract.

PALS

Reminder: Lots of changes from last semester’s work.

Accomplished

  • Removed usernames and swtiched to email [2 pt]
  • Design donor/volunteer reports (visuals and content) [2pt]
  • Modify and update test framework [2 pt]
  • Edit user volunteer model to include a variety of information [1 pt]
  • Create donor model [1 pt]
  • Research potential gems to help with database/report construction [1pt]
  • Contact client to get list of interests from paper [1 pt]
  • Meet with alum mentor [1 pt]
  • Prune unnecessary elements [2 pts]

Velocity

  • 13 pts

Plans

  • What happens when a user volunteers through an organization? Connect! [1 pt]
  • Implement volunteer stats on admin’s details page
  • Experiment with HTML->PDF gem [3 pt]
  • IMplement Donor and Organization tabs [2pt]
  • Integrate user and donor models [1 pt]
  • Research methods for generating and displaying graphs [1pt]
  • Meet with client [1 pt]
  • Meet with alumni mentor (Skype)
  • Rearrange “sign up page” [2pt

Q&A

  • Can you change your email address? We think so?
  • What are you using to display graphs? JavaScript? Not sure. There might be gems.
  • How often do you Skype with your alum mentor? Every other week. Maybe 20- to 30-minutes.
  • Why is your velocity constant? It may go up. There are plenty of other things to do.

Local Foods

Accomplished

  • Updated operations (food categories) as database objects and display them for each farm. Now the meats show up. [3 pts]
  • Search for farms by name. [5 pts]
  • Added local foods log and the tab icon on the site [2 pts]
  • Learn about routing [2 pts]
  • Created an API to filter farms by operation [3 pts]

Velocity

  • 15 or so points.

Plans

  • Meet with client [3 points; longer meeting since last one was delayed]
  • Meet with alumni mentor [2 points]
  • Update search with inexact match [3 points]
  • Finish UI for filtering by food category [3 points]
  • Add more UI design [3 points]
    • Need to talk to client about various UI issues.

Q&A

  • Multiple selections? Not implemented yet. Need to talk to clients about semantics.
  • Bounching cows? The amazing JavaScript bounce function.

Heartland

Accomplished

  • Front end on profile page [2 pt]
  • Mock email behavior on c9 [2 pt]
  • Finish backend work on profile page, fix bugs, make it functional [5 pt]
  • Add documentation and README files [2 pt]
  • Meet with alumni mentor [1pt]
  • Meet with group [1 pt]

Velocity

  • Allocated/planned: 13 pts

Plans

  • Redesign members [2 pts]
  • Sync profile and members [2 pts]
  • Search members [2 pts]
  • Implement CMS [8 pts]
    • There’s probably a Gem for that
  • Save modifications in the profile page [3 pts]
  • Meet with alumni mentor [1 pt]
  • Meet with client [1 pt]
  • Meet with group [1 pt]

Q&A

  • What if I want to filter the members? Doesn’t seem to be a priority right now.

Mayflower

Accomplished

  • Format search results on page [1 pt]
  • Increased legibility [4 pt]
  • Create Users page for admin [2 pt]
  • Met with client [2 pt]
  • Met with mentor [1 pt]
  • Finalized colors [3pt]
  • Organized Github projects [1 pt]
    • “It’s really nice”
  • Change neighborhood to dropdown menu [1pt]
    • A specific request

Velocity

  • 13 pts

Plans

  • Resident login [2 pt]
  • Update user information [2 pt]
  • Meet with mentor and client [2 pt]
  • Don’t show anything until search has been clicked [2 pt]
  • Update FAQ [1 pt]
  • Add response box [1 pt]
  • Change contact administrator and external resources [1 pt]
  • Correclty format phone numbers [1 pt]
  • Change image for residents without photos [1 pt]
    • Also need to fix non-loading images
  • Make navbar collapsible [2 pt]
    • Mobile friendly
  • Set up Heroku [2 pt]
    • Need to deploy current changes

Focus

  • MVP
  • Accessible and intuitive
  • Official release on May 2nd! MVP and Workshops.

Q&A

Work time

Accessibility statement. Check accessibility with WAVE.

Copyright © Samuel A. Rebelsky. Selected materials are design elements are due to other members of the Grinnell CS department and are used with permission.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

This website was built using Jekyll, Twitter Bootstrap, and the Bootswatch Cosmo Theme.