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Blog 2017 01 13 Winter
Al wrote some code over break. I researched a bit more about the details of the user interface that we are trying to create. Unfortunately, I did not get as much as I wanted to over break.
We hope to meet up with the rest of the team soon just to find out where everyone is since we last met and make sure that we are all on track. Also, I plan on working on the code and getting the images for the buttons we will have for the buttons and dials we will be using.
Snow days have set us behind in meeting with the entire team but we will have a chance to meet up with them this next Tuesday.
Over the break I started to learn more about Node JS because we came to a consensus that it would be easier to use one language instead of multiple for the server. I have never used it so I figured it would be good to do research and learn as much as I can so I wouldn't be behind when we got into the guts of coding during this term.
Monday Al and I plan on meeting during MLK day to start going over the server and hopefully start some coding. I believe we will also have our meeting with the rest of the High Altitude Rocket team as well.
Due to the Snow and the MLK day trying to get our Rocket team meetings has been tough. Monday the normal days for all our meetings. We have been trying to be adjustable so that we can get on schedule and get this thing going.
Over the break I looked into task tracking and wrote a little bit of code for the groundstation backend. The most important feature for a task tracking system is ease of use. Much like source control, the best task tracker is the one that you use. An overly complicated or inconvenient task tracker won't do anyone any good, because no one (including me) will check their tasks. I looked into waffle.io, but it didn't seem to add any features that GitHub Projects didn't have or could easily replicate. Because we use already GitHub for everything else in our project, including source code, documentation, and blogging, GitHub Projects is the best option.
I also started writing some of the backend over the break. It would make sense to use the node package manager (npm) to track client-side JavaScript libraries as well as server side, but making them accessible from the default /node_modules path is tricky. I wrote some code that takes a list of JavaScript libraries, automatically finds them in the /node_modules directory, and makes them available on the /scripts route.
The plan for this week is to get everybody on track for winter term. Last quarter, we had a lot of written assignments to complete, so it was easy to know what we were supposed to be doing at any given time. This quarter, we will need to be much more proactive and self-directed, so we will need to come up with a solid plan for how we will finish our project.
We usually do our meetings on Mondays, so the snow day on the first day of class and now MLK Jr. Day have set us behind. Hopefully we can meet on the Tuesday after MLK Jr. Day and start some real progress.
OSU High-Altitude Rocket Team