This week my group and I all came together to finish the demo for our project. We had decided that our main focus for the end should be split into our three initial sections that we chose at the start: the database, interaction with the database, and then the UI. For the purposes of this exercise, however, we decided to split from our original roles for the purpose of better understanding what one another will be working with for the rest of the project. It is because of this that I decided to take up the database interaction to store the information gained from the sensors. Through some research, I was able to find the solutions I was looking for and we were all able to push what we made into something worth showing off.
A challenge I faced was having to relearn how to code in Python. Luckily for me, Python isn’t that difficult of a language to begin with, and if you already understand how to write code and learned Python in the past, jumping back into it and remembering the syntax is a breeze. Although taking a look at the code now, it looks a little funky, I know it is only because it is in a format that I am not used to looking at. By the end of this project, I will be able to scratch up Python to being one of my top languages known when it comes to how comfortable I am writing in it. Given that Python will be the language that we will be writing most of our work in, it isn’t very strange to think that it should become as forward in my mind as others. My only hope is that it doesn’t push out the knowledge I have for C. Being a more complex language than Python, I get the feeling it would be a lot more strenuous to have to relearn C than it is to relearn Python.
