Day 28

Presentation Day

So....unfortunately, we weren't able to fully flesh out our project. Turns out, I still have a lot to learn on GitHub and collaborating with developers on it. Merging conflicts were the death of me and when we finally figured out that binary files can't be merged, it already took away 2 hours of time. The presentation was originally set at 3 but was pushed forward to 2. We tried to add the bootstrap to make the website look nice but because I was working on the backend of the same file, Brian worked on the CSS so when we tried merging, it was either deleting the functionality of the website or the aesthetics. We stuck with functionality since that was more important but I was disappointed when all the other groups had pretty good CSS.

We weren't able to get to the random Santa generator so all in all our app was a bust but it was very cool working on a project with others and seeing how other people work out their code. I'll admit, I should've done more for the project and I got to cocky that I had everything all working only to find out that after merging all 3 of our codes, there were issues that had to be debugged. Since we didn't merge early enough, we spent the time to debug and that cost us the ability to add the random santa feature.

Other groups had similar ideas on the backend (movie watch list etc.) but the coolest one was the winning group and deservedly so. They created Thinder, where you can sign up and create an event on where and when to go eat. So if you're hypothetically alone on Thanksgiving, you can go on this app and see who else is doing what so you can join their event and everyone can share a meal together!

But thats the end of Python! Time went by really fast. We get the rest of the week off and starting Monday we'll be starting MEAN! Going to take this weekend to catch up with this blog and help with finishing my group project as well as look at the first couple things on the MEAN Stack. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!