Hello, world! Welcome to my second blog post.
This blog post follows my journey as I navigate the capstone project, so I like to write about its beginnings.
So I’ve teamed up with two other folks who started the OSU program almost three years ago. Since we were working professionals with full-time jobs (and still are), we’ve taken 1-2 courses per quarter.
For our project, we choose to design a dating app that matches shelter animals with prospective owners. The dating app will be a responsive web application that works on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device. Although we’re still finalizing the details of the website, we’ll be following a model, view, controller architecture.
For the view, we will be experimenting with a powerful front-end library, React, which is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components. I’ve used React for a previous project for 361, but I’m excited to take a deeper dive and thoroughly learn the framework.
For the model, we’ve been using MySQL, which is an open-source relational database management system. And finally, for the controller, we’ll be using C#.net. I’ve never programmed in C#, so this will be my first! But my understanding is that it is similar to C++ and Java and primarily used for web development, Windows applications, and Games. In addition, it uses a Microsoft framework called the .NET framework.
So far, our group has been working pretty organically. We’ve created our team standards, an agreed-upon standard of conduct for goal setting, communication, meetings, project management tools, work quality, and conflict management. By the end of the week, we will also hammer out the details of our application. As the project progresses, I will report more information for this journey. Till next time!
