Monday, July 20, 2015

Week 4, Day 1

Today, we met our mentors, Alex and Chris. We discussed what we had done so far and the plan for the future. Chris began writing an API in Django for the server client communication. I am very interested in server-side computer science, and I checked out Chris' server side programs so far here.
https://github.com/cmhedrick/ourdictionary
I went through the Django, and as I have experience in python, I was able to get an idea of what was going on. However, Chris did not finish programming today, and so we did not have an opportunity to work on the client app for firefox OS. At this point, Alex said that one good activity would be to get a server to respond that ran node.js to an app. At this point I am working on that with the help of node school. I am working to get this finished by Wednesday, and that should be tough, but I think that if Liam, Ryan and I all work on it we might be able to get it done!

1 comment:

  1. Alex made an excellent suggestion. With only two days left, the best thing to do is to define a small, "bite size" goal that could act as a beginning part of a larger project. In fact, instead of trying to modify Finn's Friendzy app, you could think of what process you could use to work toward something like that from scratch.

    You need:

    1. A server that can display data (using http requests from a web browser).
    2. I client that can send data to the server.

    See what you can do during these last 2 days. Start small and try to make the simplest thing you can think of that uses a client-server architecture.

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