Week 8 - Progress has been made

Building up the documentation for the Progress report was left to Jack and myself, however Jack seems pretty distant and not engaging in any work.

I get the feeling that maybe Jack isn't interested in the course, noted from his lack of input to date.  Great guy, but clearly distracted and has interests elsewhere.

I put together a document for the team to input into for the progress report and provided most of the content.

Working with Hanson on some errors he is getting with scripting, but honestly, I'm only helping with the obvious, I guess it's handy having a second set of eyes on your code.

Week 7 - the quiet week

The team energy is slowing down dramatically, but I suspect that's mostly to do with the fact we have mostly completed our final project.

I worked on some Javascript, but nothing anywhere near as good as what Hanson has done.  Being a 4th year IT student working on AI, I couldn't even begin to produce what he is doing.

It makes me reflect in how I need to improve my coding skills.

I learnt in the workshop in the nature of Javascipting, the Trove API call in specific.  In how Javascript calls all the information at once and there is no set order.  This is the problem we are facing in trying to get better search results.

Week 6 - critiquing & concept progress

Working with the team, we discussed many elements of the structure of the site.  I was running team meetings and leading discussion on design.

Hanson lead the discussion on the coding side.

We decided on the following direction:

1.  Call all the results in from the Trove API call upon searching and limit it to 500 results.
2.  Limit the Google API map, for max zoom out and max zoom in.
3.  Current CSS theming was not in line with original concept work

After last weeks session of critiquing others works, I felt like the quality of the critiques I gave were high quality and would enable others to see some areas of opportunity.

However, the quality of feedback from others towards our concept, was very limited and even after strong encouragement to provide any feedback, we really didn't receive enough quality feedback.

I think the lesson here is to maybe have rewards such as lollies and sweets to really encourage the feedback.  I think also our progress was well in advance to others and maybe other students were a little put off on the fact we were so far ahead.