A-Capstone-Life Challenge

What was the most difficult challenge, and how did you solve it? The most difficult challenge was by far the creature movement. All the other animations were pretty straight forward, just a lot of testing to make sure they looked good. However, with movement, something had to actually permanently change with the element. Additionally, because […]

The main technology I’ve been using for this project has been electron-react. Essentially, take two languages I haven’t worked with in a while, JavaScript and HTML, mix them together, add in some extra ~spice~, and you have React! Safe to say there was a pretty large learning curb. Second term using it and I’m still […]

Clean code is understandable, maintainable, and lacks code smells. While Code Smells themselves don’t cause program failure or bugs, they increase the risk of them occurring in the future, thus incurring technical debt. Hence, it is always best to avoid Code Smells while writing and refactoring code as needed. While I do try to create […]

The Project so Far: We’ve got the groundwork set up for creating new pages, the communication between the front end and back end, and the foundations for all future animations. My teammates will be dropping the pushes for the creatures and environment soon. Currently, I’ve created the functions for creating creatures and their movements. The […]

Architecture and Functional Areas: For the program itself, we are going to be using MVC architecture with python and electron-react. The functional areas were decided as follows: Creatures, Simulation control (the god component), Environment, Saves, Control (communicating between the model and view), User GUI, and Animation. The functional area I was given was the animation. […]