Instead of dedicating our meeting times to presentations, Professor Moorthy has came up with the idea that we should break into small groups to discuss and review codes, as well as to bounce ideas. I personally think this is a great idea – during the past few weeks, I tried to complete online tutorials for PHP and MySQL, and hoping that would help me gain insights in building up my project. Unfortunately, the learning curve seemed steep. I was able to form ideas of course, but the detailed picture just didn’t come up like I previously expected.
After Johnny’s presentation (I think their app is awesome, good job guys :D ), I talked to Colin about the website stuff - Colin is very nice and helpful. He sat down with me, went over some basic structures of how to implement a website, and he also suggested a framework for me to use. I actually learned many things from him just within the ten minutes, which was impressive. Now my plan for this weekend is to look up the terms that Colin introduced to me J
I think I mentioned in my previous blog entry that I will get in touch with the APO about my project – I did. I contacted Chris, who developed the APO book exchange over the summer, asked him whether we could work together. Unfortunately, Chris said he was hoping he could sell it to client with some modifications, so his codes were not open. The good thing is that Chris said we could maybe figure out a time to meet and so to talk about it, see whether we would come up with some ideas together. I am currently looking forward to talking to Chris. I’m sure I can learn many things from him.
I will be taking Database Systems next semester to ensure I have some working knowledge towards a back-end database. Right now, I feel like I have many ideas but just simply don’t know how to implement them. Well, on the other hand, learning something new is always exciting – now it’s time for me to visit Wikipedia!
