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.