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Sprint 3 and Looking Back
Sprint 3 included the hardest parts of the site that we saved for last, so we knew we were in for a challenge. My group conducted more frequent meetings where we updated our plans for the week and brainstormed ideas for difficult problems. The last meeting was focused on Trips, or user-curated collections of travel…
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Sprint 2 and Unexpected Inspirations
I’m not sure why I ever dreaded taking this course, considering it is becoming one of my favorite classes in the program. As I mentioned in my first blog post, I was unsure whether I would be able to relearn skills I have not used recently, such as working with databases or editing HTML. Surprisingly…
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Sprint 1 and Working With Others
Well, I’m relieved to say that the course is still going well. My group was assigned our top choice of “Crowd-Sourced Travel Planner” for our project. With a concept like this I’ll get to build a highly interactive website and practice back-end programming and creating a database. As a side benefit, I would also find…
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Introduction and Project Selection
For my first blog post I will be explaining my thoughts on the Online Capstone Project course so far and the project selection process. To be honest, I have been dreading taking this class for a long time. Over the past two years I have learned many skills in many varied subjects. Now is the…