working on the paper. presentation done.

We presented our Facebook application yesterday.  It’s a wonderful feeling to have that under our belt.  Now, we are currently in the CSB 115 lab writing out our paper.

My part is:

1.  Intro (inspiration, description)

2. Method (artistic- photoshop, illustrator)

3.  Discussion (problems, solutions)

4.  Conclusion (what we learned, future)

The only difficulty is getting started…

Our goal is to have it done by Friday so we can have a relaxing weekend studying for our OTHER finals.  =)

Overall, I feel very satisfied with this class’s project.  I had the best possible group.  We were efficient.  I think it was a wonderful experience to have all of us striving for the same goal, taking our own initiatives and opportunities.  We really supported one another.  When one of us couldn’t find the code, another would find it.  It was an optimal blend of tasks and skills.

I would say that Jill and Jen were very good at finding information in google searches and looking on the facebook wiki.  i am horrible at finding things.  it’s as if the internet was a maze that purposely shifted to keep me at a  loss.  But for them, it appears on their first search.  It’s amazing.

Though i would have liked to do a lot more programming, I found myself attracted to the visual aesthetics of the application which did swallow up a lot of time.  Figuring out how to change colors on Photoshop was a lot more difficult than I thought.  Many revisions, trial and error…

As for the code, i think the biggest contribution i gave was the CSS styling of the lids.  I also helped clean up the code at the end with Jill.  But the functions for tabs and invitations and profile boxes were mostly Jill and Jen’s doing.  I think Jen did the profile box.  Jill did the invitations.  And both of them found the functions for tabs and we all tweaked them around.

I revamped the appearance of the presentation while Jen and Jill input the content.  I uploaded images into it… We really were a team.  It was very good.

week 9 and counting…

Our last programming meeting was yesterday at our usual time, Wednesday 4-8pm.

There was a great feeling of triumph and accomplishment.  “finish strong!” we would say.  And i really feel like we’re on a good stretch towards the finish line.

We finished programming.  Our wonderful Jen Santos did away with the last CSS error that was showing up on Facebook.  I added some more buttons/caps to even out the list.  And we spent the last hour of our meeting looking up fun facts and enjoying ourselves with the ridiculous randomness in the world.

We are planning on meeting up tomorrow, Friday at 9am to figure out and delegate the paper.  Jen and Jill had already formulated a basic outline containing, Intro, Methods, Discussion and Results.

one thing i realized was that i really forgot the specifics of all the programming difficulties that really made life miserable.  We struggled so much but now, we don’t even remember what we struggled with because it’s solved in such neat little lines of code.

it’s amazing how much our code has shrunk.  there are like two lines of code for each major function and that’s it.  that’s all that’s needed.  while it’s refreshing, it also is kind of annoying because the process of getting to those few lines were hours and hours of experimenting and trying things out.

so a major lesson i learned was that one can always learn things online.  i don’t need a formal class or anything.  only motivation is necessary and required.