Yesterday, our advisor granted us access to the project code. After we signed NDA agreements. I now have all this code I don’t understand written by previous students, and I have to come up with 4 high level stories by next Tuesday that will map out my entire last term.
I’m a bit overwhelmed. Our project manager says that we can come up with our own requirements. However, I don’t have the slightest clue of what I’ve been given.
Yesterday, I found an instruction .pdf and looked through the main file and some supporting files and functions. Today I was able to get the code running and got most of my environment setup. I decided to use Ubuntu (WSL) as my OS and VS code as my IDE. I’m working with Python so I had to make sure I had python3 installed and also pip for importing the right dependencies from a requirements.txt file.
I also found that I needed to install a graphics program in addition to the ones the previous students had suggested.
Finally I ran the program and it worked. Now I need to look through the code deeper and explore the theory behind what the code is trying to do. Maybe through this process of exploration some solid user stories will emerge for the assignment that is due on Tuesday.
