Tonight I am handing everything in, whilst I wish I could work on this further I am out of time for now. It is realistic that I will revisit this application in the future to complete its development. This has been a good opportunity for me to develop something that I will iterate on in the future outside of education.
The report is rather short, this allowed me to be concise which is a welcome change to instead having to pad out the report with extra content.
I faced some problems in the process but nothing major that inhibited my progress for a significant amount of time.
In hindsight, I would like to have had more time to take the applications development a little more seriously with some planning and preparation. Due to the lack of planning and lack of familiarity with the language my end product felt a little rushed. It still served the purpose of testing the technology despite this.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Monday, June 24, 2019
25/05/2019
Following my last update, I have chosen to create a mobile application using flutter which will be used to test a concept to prove that I can create an application that Nelson Forests has shown interest in.
For Milestone 3 I have pretty much finished my website, deploying it to the web server proved to be difficult in practice due to the database migration not being a simple task. Upon migration of the database, I needed to rename several references to the new file path. Upon successful database migration, my website was running correctly which was nice.
Creating the video demonstration took me a few takes as I found myself running into roadblocks where I started talking about something I didn't actually implement or I forgot to mention something. In the end, my recording totalled to about 7 minutes which I felt was enough time to show all the features of the website.
For Milestone 3 I have pretty much finished my website, deploying it to the web server proved to be difficult in practice due to the database migration not being a simple task. Upon migration of the database, I needed to rename several references to the new file path. Upon successful database migration, my website was running correctly which was nice.
Creating the video demonstration took me a few takes as I found myself running into roadblocks where I started talking about something I didn't actually implement or I forgot to mention something. In the end, my recording totalled to about 7 minutes which I felt was enough time to show all the features of the website.
15/05/2019
I have begun to chip away at my milestone 3 project, the implementation of WordPress is proving more complicated than anticipated due to the requirement of the 'auction' feature in which vendors can list their own auctions. This aside I have completed the berry calculator which proved to be somewhat simplistic with how I have implemented it, due to the minimal amount of business rules required for this making the calculations work was not an obstacle.
In my other pages which essentially just contain basic web information & some other features like an image slider the main challenge has been making it appear somewhat appealing to the eye, this was made easier using Elementor.
At this point, I have been thinking about my assignment 3 idea and I am thinking about either something using a Golang framework or 'flutter' which is a Dart framework. More to come on this as it develops.
In my other pages which essentially just contain basic web information & some other features like an image slider the main challenge has been making it appear somewhat appealing to the eye, this was made easier using Elementor.
At this point, I have been thinking about my assignment 3 idea and I am thinking about either something using a Golang framework or 'flutter' which is a Dart framework. More to come on this as it develops.
15/06/2019
Since I handed in milestone 3 I have had more time to focus on assessment 3, so far I have created a small application using a tutorial to get my head around flutter. Following this, I began creating my prototype application. I found the way that flutter works to be quite different from the typical programming type I use. Flutter feels somewhat similar to web development to me due to the usage of 'widgets' which allow me to create the application GUI elements in a modular fashion.
I have found that flutter contains many functions similar to the .net library as well as some new ones which are interesting, in developing this application further it would be fun to see the limitations of the framework.
I plan to test the application out in the forest to ensure that the technology works as well as to gather debugging information that will aid in the improvement of the application going further, this is an important step to ensure that what I am creating will be suitable for the environment and purpose that it is intended for.
I have found that flutter contains many functions similar to the .net library as well as some new ones which are interesting, in developing this application further it would be fun to see the limitations of the framework.
I plan to test the application out in the forest to ensure that the technology works as well as to gather debugging information that will aid in the improvement of the application going further, this is an important step to ensure that what I am creating will be suitable for the environment and purpose that it is intended for.
Monday, May 6, 2019
07/05/2019
I have been off the radar for a while since my last blog due to being in China. Since my last blog, I have continued to tick along slowly with milestone 1&2.
I have finished the bulk of the written work in milestone 1 so I have minimal work to complete there, I will finish milestone 1&2 off this week so that I can move onwards into other responsibilities. I have not found too much trouble with the milestone work considering its similarity with tasks we have done in previous classes taught by Todd. In terms of class today Todd is just making sure that we are keeping our work up essentially.
More to come as I get back into study. :)
I have finished the bulk of the written work in milestone 1 so I have minimal work to complete there, I will finish milestone 1&2 off this week so that I can move onwards into other responsibilities. I have not found too much trouble with the milestone work considering its similarity with tasks we have done in previous classes taught by Todd. In terms of class today Todd is just making sure that we are keeping our work up essentially.
More to come as I get back into study. :)
Monday, April 1, 2019
2/04/2019
It appears that our classes, for the most part, our classes have turned into project work sessions whilst Todd explains what is required as needed for students. Since my last blog, I have chipped away at milestone two a bit more with the intention of committing some more time to it during this lesson and in the coming days before leaving for China.
What Todd has gone over in class today pertaining to the content of milestone one and two I am for the most part already familiar with, this must mean that I have done an appropriate amount of research into the course materials beforehand.
Throughout the rest of the class, I worked on Milestone One until we had to leave.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
1/04/2019
Since the last blog post, I have made headway into milestone 1, my goal is to finish milestone 1 and possibly 2 before I head off to China at the end of the week.
For those that are interested in using WordPress, Todd did an in-class demo of installing WordPress on your PC.
For the rest of the class I spent my time installing gingonic, a web development framework built using Go. The class was rather short and basic in terms of content.
For those that are interested in using WordPress, Todd did an in-class demo of installing WordPress on your PC.
For the rest of the class I spent my time installing gingonic, a web development framework built using Go. The class was rather short and basic in terms of content.
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