Ainsley McWaters Log

09/15/2019

This past week I've been researching details on options for frameworks for our project. I, unfortunately, found myself very ill on Friday and was unable to attend the first meeting with Dr. Vidal. I'm working currently on writing up my research findings and will publish them in the wiki sometime soon.

09/08/2019 (2 weeks' worth):

In the past two weeks, we have begun the process of solidifying an idea for our Capstone project. The whole team met twice, deciding on roles and meeting times. I've decided to help as an Editor, Researcher, in addition to other tasks.

09/29/2019 (2 weeks' worth):

During the week before the current one, meetings and appointments kept me from meeting regularly with me team, so they picked up the slack! This week, however, I have worked on creating two wireframes for the site designs via figma: About and Resources. I've enjoyed messing with colors and rectangles for so long!

10/14/2019 (2 weeks' worth):

Link to sample project: https://github.com/SCCapstone/m3-mcwatera

For my sample project, I simply allow a user to type in a word and it counts the number of occurrences of the word in the sample text and displays a simple result. I learned SO much. I'd like to continue learning, and must. I also drafted the initial huge list of requirements for our team's project from which my team then expanded and organized.

11/3/2019 (Catch-up):

I honestly entirely forgot about this log and can't afford to do so again. Last week aided the group in working on git and starting our django application for deliverables this upcoming winter. This week I've primarily gone through issues, updated this log, and spent a lot of time trying to work out the answers to our primary ethical concerns. Going to help finalize this week's milestone text/explanation and do better about keeping up with this log in the future.

11/4/2019-11/10/2019

Monday (11/4): Helped to break down large development issues into individual issues for ease of tracking and execution. Also attended meeting with the team to discuss next steps, assignment, git coordination, etc.

Friday-Sunday (11/8-10): Was late to meeting on accident; I thought the reminder for the appointment made me think it started at 1:30PM. Anyway, I offered to help with the team understanding how CSS works in Django templates. I haven't heard back from them about my offer to take the issue concerning putting in and styling the navbar on all pages.

11/17/2019

All through this week I planned on getting stuff done regarding navbar on all pages, but my Django version vs my sqlite3 version are conflicting. Although we plan on changing databases, the plan was not to work on that quite yet. Either way, I know how to do the navbars and the team is meeting today (Monday, 18th) to sort out the details of what's going wrong with my instance particularly

11/24/2019

All through this week I got a ton done! I added the navbar and worked on the login page. Initially, my login page with styling didn't function, but by the end of Friday I had it working smoothly with logging in a user! Lots of progress, but still a lot to go.

12/2/2019

All through last week, I helped Steven work on project creation and helped with deployment issues.

End of Semester

At long last, deployment! Spent a lot of time working on things this week. Helped out with finishing up pages and doing minor styling to help things be readable and visible. Helped with projects and tf-idf algorithm output on file text copy/paste. So happy we got it deployed!

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SECOND SEMESTER

01/26/2019

This week I missed the meeting with Vidal due to a prior one-time appointment that, if cancelled, would result in a hefty missed appointment fee. It won't happen again. I did, however, meet with the group, and we decided which issues each of us needs to work on (mine is helping with unit testing and working on the projects page and functionality), as well as get everyone up-to-speed with being able to run the application locally on their machines.